I think we should all just agree that Blatter should be hung, drawn and quartered for murdering these poor Nepalese.
You see the difference in going from 1 in 50 to 1 in 1,000 though, right? The point I made about the rate of workers dying still stands too, you might believe that workers are aged between 20 and 50 but I can guarantee they are between 0 and 200 years old. You're right about needing the figures but what's the chances of getting that off the Qataris? The issue in the article is that a high number of workers are dying whilst working on the stadiums and the Qatari authorities are neither investigating the cause or making any real steps towards improving conditions.
Are you sure you're not a closet Gooner? you've got a stat for everything! People are dying, for gods sake! in conditions they are forced to endure, and in many cases in totally unecessary ways.
You have to be a lawyer with a rationale like that. Same kind of language I've heard from the likes of CEO's at Nestlé or Monsanto!
Definitely not. And I'm not a lawyer or a CEO either. But I am a risk manager and to do that job properly you need to know which patterns in the data matter and which don't and statistics really help with that. People die of all sorts of things every day of the week. Understanding why helps protect them. If you don't look at the statistics you might well cause more deaths by well meaning actions. I've had a closer look at the numbers in a Guardian article which says there have been 34 deaths from accidents at work in the 140,000 Nepalese work force. That's about 10 times the rate of deaths in construction the UK so there is clearly a lot of room for improvement. However it's only about twice the rate in the US and the latest data I can find suggests that it is lower than the rate of deaths at work for ALL workers in Nepal (important because the construction industry is about 5 times worse in the countries I've checked). The rate is comparable with that in the UK about 50 years ago. Clearly the progress we've made on such things is substantial (mostly as a consequence of legally binding safety rules being introduced in 1974). I'd like to be able to stop people dying in Qatar but I've got no way of doing that. But I am absolutely sure that the international pressure they are under as a direct consequence of being awarded the World Cup is making them focus more on this. And if the World Cup was cancelled and the Nepalese went back to Nepal, they'd be suffering worse conditions there.
So today's FIFA news is that Prince Ali of Jordan is putting himself up for the FIFA presidency as an alternative to Blatter. Now I don't know much about the guy, but when the chief criticisms of the organisation have focussed on its culture of excess and corruption - an Arab prince wouldn't be my first choice as someone who's likely to reform that. Platini has backed him, but you get the impression that Platini would back a bog brush if it stood against Blatter.
The name of the other person in the running for FIFA presidency? Jerome Champagne. You couldn't make it up
Champagne actually stands out as the only candidate who is looking at the bigger picture, rather then looking at themselves in the mirror and laughing while throwing handfuls of £50 notes around. At the very least, his proposals for far greater transparency in all of FIFA's dealings, and that there should be public debates for all candidates for FIFA Presidency so their agendas are heard (which, in Blatter's case, would be "Vote for me or men will burn down your house at 2:37am on Thursday")
Platini has backed him, but you get the impression that Platini would back a bog brush if it stood against Blatter. So would I.
Well, thats the first time i've ever heard someone say that being hung, drawn and quartered is too good for someone!
. Yea, having your stomach slit open and your guts falling out, having been castrated sounds like a breeze.
Platini's been done like a kipper on this one: Blatter reneged on a promise to step aside and let Platini have a free run, so now Platini has to choose between backing Blatter in the hope he keeps his promises the next time, or back Blatter's opponent only to knife them in the back and oppose them the next time the Presidency comes up. Platini will look bad either way.
Blatter is the FIFA equivalent of Mugabe. He'll never resign, he will need to be forcibly removed. I don't like or trust Platini either, but in the short term anything that gets rid of that crooked, devious old ****, will do.
Good. Platini's a bellend who hates English clubs, even if he has some justification for doing so. Dodgy ****er kept turning up to our Europa games and hoping we'd lose, looking utterly gutted when it didn't happen.
What's the odds that, if somebody looks like ousting him at the next election, a couple of days before the vote their family suddenly goes missing?
