Fresh Corruption Allegation for FIFA to try and fob off. In a perverse kind of way, I hope it can be proved that there was indeed some corruption during this World Cup bid, as it will finally expose without doubt, who in the organistaion is 'bent'. Then maybe the World Cup can be moved - that would be a result.
Having just read the times article that the BBC a referencing, the evidence seems borderline indisputable and the Qatari Bid tea's only argument now tint the Bin Hammam wasn't part of their bid and that what they ere doing wasn't corrupt. This is frankly unlikely to be a good enough argument that they should keep the world cup as the likelihood is that it was a plan that was hatched by their bosses and they weren't told to maintain a level of deniability. At the moment the only thing that I can see that would save them is if the investigation by Garcia states that there's "not enough evident of wrong doing". Garcia a former New York prosecutor is famed for having the ability to make investigations end positively for the people that called for it, not prizes for guessing why he was FIFA's man for the job. Early on in the process it would have suited FIFA to say that everything was fine protect Qatar and try to move on, as there was just a suspicion of wrong doing. Now there is a large am ought of public information available and FIFA have to think about there own credibility which is rapidly decreasing and their current best option to restore faith would be to sell Qatar out and have a new ballot, there is enough time to put a world cup together in another country, 8 years, but things would have to move quickly if they want bespoke stadia. Personally I think the chance of a world cup happening in Qatar are now extremely low and that would mark a victory for sanity and public outrage. For me though the interesting one has always been in Russia, if anyone is willing to throw some bribe money around is the Russians personally I doubt very much that their bid was any cleaner than the Qatari bid and combined that with the amount of viscous racism that surrounds russian football not to mentions there governments current stance of homosexuality and escalating tension with the west. For me the problem initial problem with playing in Qatar was that it would be too hot, they then soured that with a string of human rights violations but Russia presents a chance of genuinely unpleasant scenarios occurring. You'd have though after the last two world cups in South Africa and Brazil FIFA would have wanted a banker success somewhere like England or Spain were the tournament was unlikely to cause any controversy. Edit: sorry for the essay, it sort of just spilled out
Corruption In Qatar? Corruption in FIFA? A perfect storm. Does the Pope **** in the woods? Are bears Catholics?
The Word Cup in Russia is the immediate one that needs to be addressed. With Putins utter disreguard for Human Rights and his stance against Ukraine there is no way we should be going to Russia for ANY sporting events. By excluduing Russia for appearing in any Global events would send a positive message what the majority of the World think of Russias violation of minority groups and Ukraine. It worked with South Africa and Putin will resent anything that will put his policies to shame. People who say sport and politics dont mix are frankly living in another world.
There are reports in todays paper that if the 2018 is moved then it will be to England. Also its a total farce in brazil with the stadia, apparently sao paolo had their test yesterday, and they could hold 40k instead of the 65k that FIFA wanted! I really hope there isn't a tragedy waiting to happen.
Yep, we should exclude all nations with dodgy human rights issues, and change the name from the World Cup to the Tiny Handful of Nations Cup.....
I need some advice guys; if, theoretically of course, someone approached me with 1million euros and told me to vote for a non-disclosed, say, Arab country to host, maybe, the FIFA World Cup in, like, 2022. What happens if never intended to honour my end of the bargain and maybe even went to the media? Can I keep the cash? Will I get a lighter sentence for the crime of having taken a bribe? Will I be in additional legal problems (fraud, theft, breach of oral contract) for never having intended to keep my promise when I took the bribe? I need to know before it's time to vote for the 2030 WC...
I suspect the type of people prepared to bribe international officials on behalf of their nation aren't the types to take their revenge through the courts... Although is who voted for who ever disclosed?
The whole organisation is an absolute joke, firstly Blatter needs to resign his too powerful and doesn't have any integrity, it's obvious his corrupt especially after his handling of the Warner incident with the quality of the evidence that was collected. FIFA play countries off against one another they effectively bribe associations in the developing world for votes, whilst playing them off against the older more established associations. With the exception of 2006 the past couple of world cups have been an absolute joke, the likes of Russia and Qatar do not deserve to host such tournaments.
