FIFA Bureaucrats Arrested, to be extradited to US

Discussion in 'General Football & Other Sport' started by Fitz, May 27, 2015.

  1. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    So it appears that the ethics committee have 'suggested' a 90 day ban.

    I guess it'll be the top guy at FIFA that makes the final decision.

    "Can I have a lie in this morning David? Yes you can, David."
     
  2. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Platini now suspended by UEFA FIFA.

    Coming apart at the seams. Delightful.

    EDIT: originally wrote UEFA when I meant FIFA. :)
     
    Last edited: Oct 8, 2015
  3. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

    Really? Only articles I can find say UEFA have refused to suspend Pratini.
     
  4. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34474231

    EDIT: whoops, realised I typed UEFA instead of FIFA in the above post. Should have read FIFA.
     
  5. GoingDown

    GoingDown "The Stability"

    Though it does beg the question as to why he hasn't been suspended by UEFA.
     
  6. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

  7. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    SSN now reporting that Franz Beckenbauer is now implicated in the FIFA scandal
     
  8. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    Not surprising - didn't he refuse to cooperate with the American lawyer's enquiry?
     
  9. Fitz

    Fitz Squad Player

    Shame... Everyone thought, still thinks, the party will never end. Everyone is dirty...
     
  10. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Indeed. It's like my tonsils. I suffered from repeat tonsillitis in my 20s, to the point that I was ill nearly every month with a flare up. I had them removed in the end, which is only reserved for severe cases in adults. When they'd taken them out, they told me there was little of them left, so infected and eaten away with the illness were they.

    That is like FIFA. Once you remove all the corruption, there won't be enough healthy tissue left for it to stand up.
     
  11. zztop

    zztop Eurovision Winner 2015

    I hadn't thought of it like that.
     
  12. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    The similarity between FIFA and Moog's tonsils is an idea that will stay with me for a long time!
     
  13. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    I don't suppose many people did.
     
  14. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    This is how I relate complicated concepts to the simple man on the street.
     
  15. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    The world truly owes a debt of gratitude to your tonsils.
     
  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Now if you want an explanation about hell, fire and brimstone, I can always illustrate that with my piles.
     
  17. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    I feel myself in the deepest, nether regions of the darknet
     
  18. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

  19. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    If true then the other 2018 bidders will surely sue to recover the costs of their respective bids, secondly it flies in the face of Godfather's claims that the 2018 World Cup was in the bag for England until the newspaper revelations a couple of weeks prior to the vote.
     
  20. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Those are absolutely incredible words to have said out loud. He's delusional if he thinks that won't result in a serious clamour for Russia to be stripped of the World Cup. While the bidding countries sign paperwork saying they won't bring action against FIFA after the bid results, I'd be quite surprised if that protects them here. Blatter basically just admitted to encouraging countries to spend tens of millions on tendering a bid with the result already decided anyway. That's blatant corruption and will surely lead to significant legal action.

    Reaction from England to the lost bid was never a case of being a bad loser; nor the reaction from the likes of the USA, Belgium and Australia. The fact the elections had clearly been bought was always the root of the objections, and all Blatter has done is proven those in England, Australia and the USA to have been completely right all along.
     
  21. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

  22. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Apparently Blatter has been hospitalised with a "small emotional breakdown".

    http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34787547

    Luckily, it doesn't seem to have dampened his self delusion in any way, shape or form:

     
  23. 100%

    Run it in the UK in 2018 and in the USA in 2022
     
  24. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    Various news outlets now reporting that hospitals reportedly paid bribes to try and host Blatter while he recovers.
     
  25. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    Stress related illness rather than a fist to face related illness
     
  26. Fitz

    Fitz Squad Player

    Is it wrong for me to want to see him dragged out of his hospital bed into an awaiting police car, head bonking on the stairs on the way down, and taken out to a trial?
     
  27. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    If it is then me hoping he just dies is probably wrong too.
     
  28. Happy bunny

    Happy bunny Cheered up a bit

    We'd have a pretty good chance of winning. The only entrants to the Alternative World Cup would be England, the US, Oz, NZ and probably Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales. We should be able to see off that lot in a good year!
     
  29. Rontaylor

    Rontaylor Reservist

    Fifa

    Yet more arrests - surely we are getting to the point where the organisation is so tainted it can't continue although would not be easy to organise a successor organisation. Obviously FIFA's accumulated surplus woukld have to transfer.
     
  30. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

  31. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    That point was reached in 1972
     
  32. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    "Blatter" rhymes with "Hatter". Seems somehow appropriate.
     
  33. UEA_Hornet

    UEA_Hornet First Team Captain

  34. Fitz

    Fitz Squad Player

    I hope there is more. And convictions, too.
     
  35. IRB

    IRB THe artist formally know as ImRonBurgundy?

    Nelly has aged so badly

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