If, as looks likely/possible that the vote goes ahead and Blatter wins due to the federations that have been benefactors of his corrupt reign voting for him again,we would then have a scenario of a World Cup likely to be boycotted by the European Nations and even more damning , boycotted by the main Sponsors.
Surely there would likely then be a window for a new Alternative World Tournament containing the Euro nations plus any other Federations ,South and North AMerica Oceania etc who are opposed to Blatter. If this were a financial success even bigger than the WC itself then this is likely to undermine everything and make more federations move away from FIFA ?
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Plus I think the venomous feeling towards FIFA is a lot more rife in our country than it is elsewhere.
Shame, it could work - get the money behind it, in this case TV deals, sponsors etc and the rest would stop into place.
Think it might mean that short term the decent international competition is lost to the likes of Sky but long term it could help the game with the pressure on FIFA to clean up.
World Series Cricket changed the game after all.
Benefits to UEFA clubs would mean they could ignore requests from the other continents whose tournaments clash with the club seasons. No more FIFA meddling. Goal-line technology could have been introduced far more quickly. More sponsorship money is kept within UEFA and not buying mansions or sports-cars for oligarchs in developing nations.
Eventually the other continents would be begging UEFA to let them in. Same thing happened with club rugby - the biggest clubs set up their own tournament because they didn't like the Heineken Cup and the other clubs capitulated when their sponsors abandoned them.
Every country involved (European or ROW) has to provide clear reports on whether corruption has taken place prior to Qualifying though and if so, they're suspended until the next competition (and yes that would possibly include Brazil what with the Head of their FA being one of those arrested yesterday)
I suppose Charlton have never won the FA Cup ;-)
The main UEFA countries withdrawing from the WC would bring things crashing down pretty quickly but the collective will doesn't seem to be there.
My own Fifa coup would involve telling Platini to withdraw UEFA and to set up a rival to Fifa which all countries in the world could join. We make it clear that we would support his bid for becoming the President of this new international organisation, as even he is a better option than Blatter right now. Russia 2018 goes ahead, unless clear evidence can be found that there was corruption in the voting process. Qatar 2022 does not happen with the European nations. We organise our own alternative with the countries who want to be part of it.
Who wouldn't want to see a tournament in a proper football country, at the right time of year, that included England, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay?
And, with the persuasion of marketing dollars from sponsors, the list could easily be extended to the Netherlands, the USA, Mexico, China, two or three countries in Africa..?
And, as it doesn't clash with the "other" World Cup at Xmas in 2022, FIFA couldn't object.
It was said by someone on talk sport a while back that the rules of football are owned by the English fa,
If and this is a big if,
If that is the case and true would it not be a way around the whole shameful situation
But I take your point - better to be squeaky clean in this case.