paisleysaints Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Didn't see that coming. Something bad has to be coming out.Yeah it has to be last week he didn't care and he was the man. Something dodgy about this south African 10 million? Well even more dodgy lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 According to FIFA rules they have to give 4 months notice, so before Christmas I would think. And of course FIFA are well known for sticking to the rules. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 And of course FIFA are well known for sticking to the rules. Wouldn't surprise me if he stands again after overwhelming demand, like the last time when he promised not to stand again. Although my bet is he'll be in jail or house arrest by then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spain Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 And suddenly, as if by magic a mere 4 hours after he resigns: Blatter 'under investigation in US' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P45 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 It needed the Americans to step in and sort it out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rednyella Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32986950 Blatters worries just beginning. God Bless America! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 FBI are now investigating the decision to award Russia and Qatar the World Cup 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) Excellent piece in the Washington Post about Andrew Jennings, who wrote the superb book Foul, that some people were discussing earlier. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/?postshare=1651433336369627 Edited June 3, 2015 by AberdeenBud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Chuck Blazer admitting him and others in FIFA taking bribes to award the 2010 World Cup to South Africa 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomelandsOur Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 France 98 also bribed according to the testimony. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 This chuck blazer character is a fat mess 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) He's an evil Santa Claus. Or a fat(ter), more bearded George Lucas Edited June 3, 2015 by nsr 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 This chuck blazer character is a fat mess It won't take much to catch him, also he's used to doing bird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Grass Is Greener. Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/32998735 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspy Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 It won't take much to catch him, also he's used to doing bird. cb.jpg Nice to see he got himself some wheels with his share of the money. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I cannot wait until the FA get involved in the corruption scandal. It will come out soon enough. Talksport will be brilliant when it happens. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 (edited) I am actually surprised that bids like France 1998 (which only had Morocco as opposition), South Africa 2010 (which was 'ringfenced' for Africa under the rotational system) and Russia 2018 would have needed to have bribed people to have won their tournaments? In the first 2 cases they were the stand-out candidates - to the degree that anyone else winning almost seems unthinkable in hindsight - and Russia was not a surprise winner being a huge and wealthy country, and Eastern Europe never having held it before: England got a solitary 2 votes in R1 and thereafter the opposition were Iberian and Benelux joint bids, which they comfortably surpassed to win 13-7-2 in R2 without even a need for R3. Or was it just the done thing: you had to bribe to please the blazers? Edited June 3, 2015 by HibeeJibee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I cannot wait until the FA get involved in the corruption scandal. It will come out soon enough. Talksport will be brilliant when it happens. Do you think that'll happen like? I'm not so sure. I don't think the English FA would get caught up in this 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musketeer Gripweed Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Of course they did. You cannot bid for the world cup without doing something wrong, no matter how trivial. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Here are England's votes for 2006 & 2018: 2006 R1: Germany 10, South Africa 6, England 5, Morocco 2 R2: Germany 11, South Africa 11, England 2 *eliminated* 2018 R1: Russia 9, Iberia 7, Benelux 4, England 2 *eliminated* If they were bribing, they were pretty bad bribers... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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