I'm actually starting to lose all love for football. The world governing body is as corrupt as any Mafia family. The Premier League are strangling the life out of all english football outside its own elite club. The football leagues attempt to bring a level playing field with FFP is collapsing while we watch.
Not sure how long I can be bothered to take any interest anymore.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought I heard a statement from Blatter "If USA had the world cup instead of Russia, they would not know be looking into all of this with the FBI". He fails to mention that USA and us spent millions of pounds to win the tournament and he had already agreed to give it to Russia
Why FIFA didnt just put it out there (even a fake copy) in the first place is beyond me!!
All they've allowed is for another scandal to potentially blossom whereas even with a fake copy of the report they could have created confusion amongst everyone as no one would have known which one was right or not
Why FIFA didnt just put it out there (even a fake copy) in the first place is beyond me!!
All they've allowed is for another scandal to potentially blossom whereas even with a fake copy of the report they could have created confusion amongst everyone as no one would have known which one was right or not
I wonder if the FA will ever get any sort of recognition for the stink they kicked up about Blatter/FIFA at the time. They were just made out to be the stroppy child and very few FAs supported them.
FIFA created the conditions where everybody had to bribe in some way or another. So that becomes the 'NEW!' FIFA's rationale for not taking the World Cup away from two countries that were the best bribers. They should re-open the bids - due to the timescales - they should open to everybody not restrict to continents. QATAR and Russia would then be able to make their cases honestly!
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Glad Platini got taken down too or he could well have been the next man in at FIFA and nothing would have changed.
Disgrace of a man.
Then they released a summary version which cleared Qatar of all wrongdoing and criticised the English FA.
Then Garcia resigned and said FIFA completely misrepresented the true findings of the report.
If you forgot that that happened and needed a reminder...
All they've allowed is for another scandal to potentially blossom whereas even with a fake copy of the report they could have created confusion amongst everyone as no one would have known which one was right or not
FIFA forced to release the full report.
Why not do it at the time then?
Reports over the past day or two (mainly from Germany) that Qatar will have the 2022 World Cup taken away. With England the most likely replacement.
England would be great but if it's replaced with a reasonable location that can be played in the summer I don't care where it ends up!
No chance of it being moved
In a way am looking forward to the 2022 World Cup as really want to see how bad it'll be out there