General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: zack1234 on May 27, 2015, 12:55:32 PM
Title: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 27, 2015, 12:55:32 PM
Takes the colonials to sort these theives out :old:
Well done :salute
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Someguy63 on May 27, 2015, 12:58:29 PM
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Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Zoney on May 27, 2015, 01:33:01 PM
Oh come on already. They only received
150 million
in payouts from countries who cheated to get the games.
Disgusting.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Beefcake on May 27, 2015, 03:56:19 PM
I love how John Oliver took them down last year, it's great to finally see something being done about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJEt2KU33I
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Wolfala on May 27, 2015, 03:56:57 PM
To educate yourself. It's a good thing
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Curval on May 27, 2015, 06:21:56 PM
Proud colonial here!
:banana:
Take that action Blatter & Co.! We don't want your money, we just want you gone. :rock
I was hardly shocked by any of these revelations though. I attended a conference in Miami a few years back in which Andrew Jennings spoke. He called this whole situation many years ago and has been like a pit bull trying to get people to listen. He must feel really vindicated today!
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: PR3D4TOR on May 27, 2015, 06:42:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Scherf on May 27, 2015, 07:33:44 PM
Yup, good on the States for this one.
I hope they add FIFA to the same collection as UCI, as it was the States, and only the States, that got brought some practical hurt against the corruption of international cycling.
Wonder which of the three monkeys Sepp Blatter will be playing for the next little while.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Hajo on May 28, 2015, 01:12:11 AM
It is about time!
Am I a soccer fan? no. However it is a great game. The majority of the world loves it.
Jeremy Schapp did a great report on FIFA and Blatter on ESPN and the wrong doing that was discovered awhile back.
The investigations are not over by a longshot. 9 FIFA Officials and 5 company executives have already been indicted.
Some have pled guilty already. They are co operating with the authorities.
Blatter has not been indicted as of yet. Feeling on my part............he will be.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Curval on May 28, 2015, 10:20:22 AM
I thought when the term colonial was used in the OP the reference was to the whistleblowers who refused to be bribed....they were from Bermuda, Cayman and Turks and Caicos.. ACTUAL colonials. :rofl
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 28, 2015, 11:06:30 AM
A Colonial is everyone who live in a country Britain invented,educated or civilised :old:
New jersey i cannot comment on
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: PR3D4TOR on May 28, 2015, 12:15:57 PM
Would that make Britons... French colonials? William the Conqueror and all. And btw. isn't your royal family Germans? :P
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Lusche on May 28, 2015, 12:44:19 PM
Snailman what would make you think he did no wrong?
I think it's not that improbable he actually didn't. By that i mean wrong in a strict legal sense.
All those that had been arrested now had been for corruption, money laundering and so on. And not for being power-hungry megalomaniacs. There is no indication (so far) that Mr Blatter has ever taken any amount of money for himself taken part in any actually illicit activities. I'm absolutely convinced he was aware of a high level of corruption in the ranks of the FIFA, but he may very well have been smart enough to make it impossible to prove this general awareness. For him it was probably all about his personal power and the power of FIFA itself. Like a good old Machiavellian Princeps, he made very good use of all the weaknesses of everyone around & under him. Underlings getting rich? Fine, as long as they function in my interests. I exploit their weakness. And if they suddenly refuse to play my way, I may be able to blackmail them very subtly by my knowledge about their dirty little secrets...
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 28, 2015, 02:42:42 PM
Like a good old Machiavellian Princeps, he made very good use of all the weaknesses of everyone around & under him.
Underlings getting rich? Fine, as long as they function in my interests. I exploit their weakness. And if they suddenly refuse to play my way, I may be able to blackmail them very subtly by my knowledge about their dirty little secrets...
Spot on.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Bruv119 on May 28, 2015, 04:19:43 PM
So are we going to have a re-vote on the 2022 World Cup?
Qatar is an appalling joke, they locked up BBC journalists for reporting on the slave labour being used to build the massive football stadiums in the desert where they don't even understand the game.
I say it should be held in England, way overdue for it and the stadiums are already fit for purpose.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: ghi on May 28, 2015, 05:18:09 PM
The charges could be real, but why now ,after russians secured the 2018 world Cup and before new FIFA president elections? Why mix socer with politic? How did FBI found out about this? sniffing international sport agencies also ,same like Angela Merkel"s phone and its own citizens ? Look who's talking about coruption, the only government in the world where in highest places coruption is legal and just labeled "lobbying". I remember reading somewhere: "Sleeping nations create monsters" .
From Time magazine : the other side of the coin;
"But why, the Russians asked, would a nation as indifferent to soccer as the U.S. pursue a corruption probe at the heart of the game? Even more suspect to many in Moscow was the timing ...
His question referred to an appeal that 13 U.S. Senators sent last month to the President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, asking him to move the 2018 World Cup to another country. After Putin decided last spring to invade and annex Ukraine’s Crimea region, “allowing Russia to host the FIFA World Cup inappropriately bolsters the prestige of the Putin regime at a time when it should be condemned,” the Senators wrote in the letter, which was dated April 1.
Less than three weeks later, Blatter met with Putin in the Russian resort city of Sochi and issued an apparent rebuttal to the appeals from Capitol Hill. “If politicians are not too happy that we are taking the World Cup to Russia, I always say to them, ‘Well, you can stay home, and in Russia we will hold the biggest world cup ever,'” the FIFA chief told Putin on April 20, according to a transcript on the Kremlin website."
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: MWL on May 28, 2015, 07:10:01 PM
As part of a settlement, can we require FIFA to refer to 'Soccer' as 'Soccer' and not 'Football' (which is played by 22 men - 11 per team - on a 100 yard field)?
:bolt:
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: guncrasher on May 28, 2015, 08:42:51 PM
As part of a settlement, can we require FIFA to refer to 'Soccer' as 'Soccer' and not 'Football' (which is played by 22 men - 11 per team - on a 100 yard field)?
:bolt:
last time men played football was back in the 70's.
semp
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Scherf on May 28, 2015, 08:55:44 PM
Christ, the Russians believe in conspiracies the way some parts of Africa believe in witchcraft.
"Vlad, honey, it's not always about you."
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: guncrasher on May 28, 2015, 10:23:26 PM
I think it's not that improbable he actually didn't. By that i mean wrong in a strict legal sense.
All those that had been arrested now had been for corruption, money laundering and so on. And not for being power-hungry megalomaniacs. There is no indication (so far) that Mr Blatter has ever taken any amount of money for himself taken part in any actually illicit activities. I'm absolutely convinced he was aware of a high level of corruption in the ranks of the FIFA, but he may very well have been smart enough to make it impossible to prove this general awareness. For him it was probably all about his personal power and the power of FIFA itself. Like a good old Machiavellian Princeps, he made very good use of all the weaknesses of everyone around & under him. Underlings getting rich? Fine, as long as they function in my interests. I exploit their weakness. And if they suddenly refuse to play my way, I may be able to blackmail them very subtly by my knowledge about their dirty little secrets...
Your point is well taken. Good vision.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Scherf on May 29, 2015, 12:20:07 AM
All in all, it's a great kid's game, perverted by the "adults" who play and run it.
Enrolled my kid for a soccer league few weeks back, not an insubstantial amount of $$, no doubt some of this goes to the national federation, from there to FIFA.
Also grumblings in the press down here about $45m in (to my amazement) taxpayer money which went on our bid for one of the world cups, I think 2022. "No-one's really sure where the money went."
Ehm, what?
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 29, 2015, 12:39:13 AM
I started this thread and guess what?
I coul not care a dogs wet turd about FIFA or anything to do with football.
ALL professional sportsman are Mercenarys and play ONLY for coin.
So these sports Cartels are corrupt?
They get jack from me.
If you do sport for yourself that is a different scene.
The amoung of coin made by football taken from the ignorant $100 football shirt wearing peasants :rofl
Only thing i am anoyed about is how come i cannot steal of these lemmings and not have to pay tax?
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Lusche on May 29, 2015, 04:10:50 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGHebu6U4AAhtuN.jpg)
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: DmonSlyr on May 29, 2015, 08:04:52 AM
Around 1200 or more deaths so far building that stadium. What a joke/disaster. No one even wants to go to Qatar. Would I bring my children to a FIFA world cup in Qatar? hell no. Many reports about the slave labor going on over there and here they are getting bribed millions of dollars. I wouldnt be suprised if that stadium collapsed. What a bunch a sorry POS these people are, and anyone who is affiliated with Corporate FIFA. Its such a shame how these clowns can ruin such a great thing for society on a global level.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Curval on May 29, 2015, 02:34:31 PM
Agree 100% The only other part that I can't stand....that my tax dollars are paying for this investigation / prosecution.
Can't say I blame you. But you are doing a nice thing and on behalf of the rest of the gutless world we thank you Americans for funding this.
But, consider it some measure of payback for all the fees and time spent on FATCA the rest of the world has to pay for to help the IRS track down US tax dodgers.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: FLOOB on May 30, 2015, 08:15:44 AM
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 30, 2015, 12:28:04 PM
:rofl
American football is Rugby with armour
And was designed to have time slots to advertise Hemeroid cream and chewing gum :rofl
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: mbailey on May 30, 2015, 01:48:43 PM
Can't say I blame you. But you are doing a nice thing and on behalf of the rest of the gutless world we thank you Americans for funding this.
But, consider it some measure of payback for all the fees and time spent on FATCA the rest of the world has to pay for to help the IRS track down US tax dodgers.
:rofl :aok
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: craz07 on May 30, 2015, 06:05:02 PM
in my opinion sepp blatter is ultimately responsible for the corruption in fifa.
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: zack1234 on May 31, 2015, 04:11:43 AM
You cannot blame the leader :old:
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Interceptor on May 31, 2015, 07:54:41 AM
FIFA gangster boss re-elected by his goodfellas...
(http://i58.tinypic.com/159084.jpg)
Title: Re: Fifa
Post by: Curval on June 02, 2015, 02:19:49 PM
But today he resigned after being completely BUSTED.