He monitored everyone just fine when he assured the world there was no corruption after the World Cup was awarded. He's culpable by association, it's his manor and at the very very minimum let his monkeys run a mock under his watch to rig voting on bids that cost countries millions upon million. His position is unattainable, his organisation is guilty of corruption and fraud on a massive level. He has to be prosecuted as far as I'm concerned. The piece of ****ing ****.
If he knew what was going on and was part of it he should be kicked out. If he knew what was going on and wasn`t part of it he should be kicked out. If he didn`t know what was going on he`s incompetent and should be kicked out.
Just listened to Blatter on the radio. What a **** he is. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32914907
New boy Gill says he won't come out to play if Blatter re-elected Published on Thursday, 28 May 2015 19:15 May 8 - Britain's incoming FIFA vice-president David Gill will refuse to take up his new position if Sepp Blatter is re-elected FIFA president on Friday in the latest startling development to envelop world football's governing body. A clearly exasperated Gill announced his decision to UEFA's 54 member nations on the eve of the election following two days which has seen seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich and 18 individuals indicted by US authorities on corruption charges. The former Manchester United chief executive was only elected two months ago for a four-year term but never really fancied the position, had to be persuaded to take it in succession to Jim Boyce and now says the current crisis engulfing the world governing body made it impossible for him to serve under Blatter. "I was delighted when the UEFA countries voted me in," said Gill who was to replace Boyce at Friday's FIFA Congress. "Over the months they persuaded me that we could affect change from within. Perhaps naively I thought we could. What has changed my mind? Seismic events yesterday. I recognise and realise that to be on that body (executive committee) would be futile and I don't think that's right for me and more importantly I don't think it's right for football and UEFA. Yesterday's events tipped me over the edge." Gill, 57, said he would be "delighted" to work with Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, Blatter's sole opponent: "In Prince Ali we have a very credible and very plausible candidate who can take FIFA forward. To be a vice-president of FIFA would be an honour, but not what we have. "For president Blatter not to withdraw and resign based on what happened yesterday is, to me, indicative of the problem. Look at the charge sheet handed down yesterday (in the USA). It was enormous. There's no way the president of many, many years can just ignore that. It's on his watch. The game is more important. I think it is important to note that yesterday wasn't the finish. The attorney general in the States said that this was the start. "That is why it was appropriate and right that president Blatter resign. He disagrees. And clearly that is his prerogative but I have to take a decision based on me." Gill will certainly court controversy by not taking up the post and fighting his corner from within. UEFA president Michel Platini told reporters he would try and persuade Gill to stay on at least until an emergency session of European members in Berlin in June 6. Platini said UEFA needed someone of Gill's measured experience. "I brought David in, I said England had to be in FIFA. He has eight days to decide," said Platini. But asked if he would walk away if Blatter retained his position, Gill said: "Yes, I've been clear about that. I will not attend the (new-look) executive committee meeting on Saturday. I will not attend a meeting with president Blatter still in charge." "Nobody can tell me what happened wasn't seismic for the world of football and, based on that, if he (Blatter) couldn't see the enormity of what happened, he should resign. World football is crying out for a new leader. To have a nice party and clap and cheer and slap each other on the back and life goes on, that struck me as showing how futile it is. Although Blatter has not been implicated, he oversaw the ship." If Gill sticks to his guns, the seat will now go to another British candidate, most likely from Wales who missed out last time amid accusations of Big Brother tactics.
My thought too mate...Blatter is getting massive support from the likes of Russia, Nigeria (as well as many other African nations) and some South American countries....It wouldn't surprise me one bit if it comes out in the wash that they are all deeply involved in all this ****..
I wouldn`t be the least bit surprised. To my mind those paying the bribes are as guilty as those taking them.
Listening to certain comments on the radio, it amazes me that so many people still believe that Blatter is almost bulletproof in relation to this whole drama. Anyone who doesn't believe that this FIFA corruption fiasco doesn't reach right to the top of the organisation, i.e. Blatter himself, is deluded.
The Yanks are pissed off because they didn't get it. The Russians are pissed off in case they lose it. Fact is, the Yanks have every right to poke their beaks in if bribes were paid in US dollars.
Yes indeed, I quite agree. The point I was trying to get across is that if bribes were paid for in dollars then it makes it a federal offence. Hence the FBI being involved.
I`m pleased the yanks are doing this for the simple reason they will pile the resources in. Probably even more so if it annoys Putin
I'm just messing about on Wikivoyage, which is a site I use for planning holidays. It says this about Qatar's great footballing tradition Qatar has the world's third-largest natural-gas reserves, behind only Russia and Iran. Its oil reserves are similar in size to those of the United States of America but will last much longer due to production levels being only one-sixth the rate of that country. By most accounts its people are the wealthiest in the world. I think we can work out why they got the World Cup! What I didn't know was how small the country/population is. Less than two million. It'd be like Slovenia getting the World Cup for Europe. Except of course Slovenia doesn't have 50° summers. Agree with everyone else here - Blatter in prison, and WTF hadn't "our" FA (i.e., the ****ty public schoolboy ****ers who run football over here) had the balls to withdraw from the Qatar World Cup beore the Yanks (rightly) got involved?
Blatter belongs to the same school as Lance Armstrong and his team. Over time the Yanks nailed him and they will do the same to Blatter unless he does the decent thing and jumps. Hopefully he is now too tarnished for even those who purport to back him will do an about face and he loses the vote. Even if he is voted back in the knives are sharpened in the strongest footballing nations and his presidency will be in for unbearable scrutiny.
live coverage on the voting debacle here http://www.theguardian.com/football...presidential-bid-amid-corruption-scandal-live Sepp Blatter is opening the bidding with his usual bullshit rhetoric- "You will know that right now we are going through troubling times. I will not call in unprecedented – also in election congresses such as 2002. These events have cast a shadow so let’s try to lift that shadow. Let’s try to lift our spirits. We can’t let the reputation of football be dragged through the mud like that. Because they are truly at fault, especially if they are found guilty. They are not the entire organisation; certain individuals who have forgotten that Fifa is based on respect discipline and a team sport with the same goal. We need to be singing from the same song sheet, especially when we talk of the character of the organisation. It’s our goal to share this respect with all of you." and finishes with- "It is not good for all this to occur two days before the election. I’m not going to use the word coincidence but I do have a small question mark."
