Is anyone surprised to read this?

[ChrisRs]

FIFA corruption charges:

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/news/fifa-officials-held-on-dollar150m-corruption-charges/ar-BBkhqlo?ocid=MSIDHP

 

What took them so long?

I hope youre looking over your shoulder Blatter!!

[Aspman]

Allegedly

 

FIFA corrupt!?!?!

 

Some phrases come to mind..

 

Does a bear **** in the woods

Is the Pope Catholic

Is David Cameron shiny

[GentleGiant]

I wonder if the FBI have been reading Private Eye ??

[Auric Goldfinger]

Gasp, shock, horror, never......................

 

 

 

Lets hope the extradition to the USA doesn't take 10 years and Jordan promises not to torture them

[sdenny]

...... and Jordan promises not to torture them

 

Fixed that for you :p

[gadgetman]

Quel surprise

[J306TD]

Nope. Something we have all known about for years :cough: Qatar :cough:

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[@Lee]

odds on Sepp Blatter getting voted in again on Friday?

[Brimma]

Fixed that for you :p

I'm sure she will

[sdenny]

I'm sure she will

 

Much more of a surprise than the Fifa news - she looks quite pretty in that picture (in fact, I didn't recognise her)

[Girardi]

They've been trying to get the American's into Football for years, guess it wasn't the FBI they had in mind?

 

Wonder how long it'll be till Mr Blatter gets a door knock?

[kilted]

Really surprised about this.

That it took them so long to find out what the general public knew for years-the whole setup is as bent as 9 nine bob note

[Aspman]

Sooo will anyone step up defend FIFA.

 

Big of a big feckin silence on that side of the argument.

 

Has $€pp Bla££€r said owt yet?

Edited 28 May, 2015 by Aspman

[Dr Zoidberg]

Yep, he's done a press conference to say he knows nothing about any dodgy behaviour, and he's the right man to lead the reform.

At least until one of the accused drops him in it in exchange for immunity, anyway.

[gadgetman]

About as convincing as Mr Morgan not knowing about phone hacking

[Brimma]

[ChrisRs]

...or as convincing as Jordan not knowing the name of the Breast Enhancement Clinic

[@Lee]

Yep, he's done a press conference to say he knows nothing about any dodgy behaviour, and he's the right man to lead the reform.

At least until one of the accused drops him in it in exchange for immunity, anyway.

as mentioned on R2 today, the FBI do plea bargains and Sepp aint got no friends anymore,,,,,,,,

[gadgetman]

As with most sporting leader scandals, there'll be no paper trail

[@Lee]

As with most sporting leader scandals, there'll be no paper trail

and people believe there aren't conspiricies,,,,,,,,

[Aspman]

[kilted]

Yep, he's done a press conference to say he knows nothing about any dodgy behaviour, and he's the right man to lead the reform.

At least until one of the accused drops him in it in exchange for immunity, anyway.

Thats like saying the Captain of the Costa Concordia should be in charge of navigation in future!

[ChrisRs]

It now looks like he's fixed his own re-election

BREAKING NEWS: Sepp Blatter re-elected as FIFA president as rival Prince Ali withdraws from second round of vote

[Clunkclick]

According to the BBC most of the African and Caribean nations luv Blatter because he actually delivers on his promises and developing nations get "Micro-economic aid" in the form of  football grounds and stadia and don't get burdened with unserviceable debt.

 

When the Americans pop round with their development consultancies and finance from the World Bank, most of these developing countries get stitched-up like kippers with long-term debt and end-up trading their raw materials and produce at below market rates, which ultimately limits their growth(See John Perkins, "Confessions of an economic hit man").

 

Is that why the Americans don't like Blatter, because he undermines their model of "Development" for developing countries ? And, of course, Dave, Has to appear to sing from the same hymn sheet.

 

Of course, UEFA don't like Blatter because development of football World-wide takes the focus off the European game and creates more professional footballers World-wide for the fixed number of tournaments. And we all are aware what happens when supply exceeds demand in the labour market, lower take home. Uncle Wayne and big Eric, the American and gulf UK club owners and the Australian media mogul, amongst a few, aren't going to like that.

 

The "Corruption" alleged here is £200 million over 20 years, whereas, I seem to recall the distortion to  the banking and lending framework of the whole World Economy, which started after the unsuccessful doughnut dodger a.k.a B.C. signed-off the derating of the Glass Act of 1929 in the late 1990's and incentivised the like of Saloman Brothers Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and their European copyists to assemble infeasible  loan and debt packages culminated in the collapse of the World Economy in 2008 and expenditure, in the form of write-offs, prop-ups and quantative easing, at the World-wide taxpayers expense,  of tens of trillions of dollars. So, eh, when's Kevin Turvey going to start digging into that one ? In World economic priority terms, that beats FIFA hands down.

 

I'm just thinking, its a piece of **** to brainwash people with top-down "News" releases, which are the complete opposite of what's true.

 

 

Nick

Edited 29 May, 2015 by Clunkclick

[trundlenut]

According to the BBC most of the African and Caribean nations luv Blatter because he actually delivers on his promises and developing nations get "Micro-economic aid" in the form of football grounds and stadia and don't get burdened with unserviceable debt.

When the Americans pop round with their development consultancies and finance from the World Bank, most of these developing countries get stitched-up like kippers with long-term debt and end-up trading their raw materials and produce at below market rates, which ultimately limits their growth(See John Perkins, "Confessions of an economic hit man").

Is that why the Americans don't like Blatter, because he undermines their model of "Development" for developing countries ? And, of course, Dave, Has to appear to sing from the same hymn sheet.

Of course, UEFA don't like Blatter because development of football World-wide takes the focus off the European game and creates more professional footballers World-wide for the fixed number of tournaments. And we all are aware what happens when supply exceeds demand in the labour market, lower take home. Uncle Wayne and big Eric, the American and gulf UK club owners and the Australian media mogul, amongst a few, aren't going to like that.

The "Corruption" alleged here is £200 million over 20 years, whereas, I seem to recall the distortion to the banking and lending framework of the whole World Economy, which started after the unsuccessful doughnut dodger a.k.a B.C. signed-off the derating of the Glass Act of 1929 in the late 1990's and incentivised the like of Saloman Brothers Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and their European copyists to assemble infeasible loan and debt packages culminated in the collapse of the World Economy in 2008 and expenditure, at the World-wide taxpayers expense of tens of trillions of dollars. So, eh, when's Kevin Turvey going to start digging into that one ? In World economic priority terms, that beats FIFA hands down.

I'm just thinking, its a piece of **** to brainwash people with top-down "News" releases, which are the complete opposite of what's true.

Nick

And Fifa doesn't require host countries to make legislative changes to suit Fifa and sponsors?

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