Spanish FA Boss Arrested

[johnny crossan]

Police just raided the Spanish FA headquarters and arrested the head honcho and his son. Corruption is alleged.

http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/18/fifa ... ngel-maria

[john@staustell]

Corruption in Spain eh?

Never heard of such a thing

[sheblue]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

[john@staustell]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

Sorry I didn't mean just in football. It started somewhere in Phillip II's administration, followed down through every one since, some more notable than others (Dictatorships), and follows through to illegal building in the 90s and 2000s, Marbella and all that. I'm a big hispanophile, but it's a national pastime. There's been massive attempts to clamp down in the last 10 years, but it keeps coming out.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

Sorry I didn't mean just in football. It started somewhere in Phillip II's administration, followed down through every one since, some more notable than others (Dictatorships), and follows through to illegal building in the 90s and 2000s, Marbella and all that. I'm a big hispanophile, but it's a national pastime. There's been massive attempts to clamp down in the last 10 years, but it keeps coming out.

Crikey John, if you're going back to the time of Philip "The Prudent" you must have a long memory........

Seriously though, I'm really impressed.

[CTID Hants]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

Sorry I didn't mean just in football. It started somewhere in Phillip II's administration, followed down through every one since, some more notable than others (Dictatorships), and follows through to illegal building in the 90s and 2000s, Marbella and all that. I'm a big hispanophile, but it's a national pastime. There's been massive attempts to clamp down in the last 10 years, but it keeps coming out.

And there's still loads of local officials/mayors being lifted now, it'll take years yet

[john@staustell]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

Sorry I didn't mean just in football. It started somewhere in Phillip II's administration, followed down through every one since, some more notable than others (Dictatorships), and follows through to illegal building in the 90s and 2000s, Marbella and all that. I'm a big hispanophile, but it's a national pastime. There's been massive attempts to clamp down in the last 10 years, but it keeps coming out.

Crikey John, if you're going back to the time of Philip "The Prudent" you must have a long memory........

Seriously though, I'm really impressed.

I'm even more well up on the Visigoths. You get bored when you are too old to play sport!

[CTID Hants]

In fact, if you've never seen this story, it's a must read you will laugh out loud at the ineptness of it all....



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -work.html

[patrickblue]

You just can't trust Johnny Foreigner.

Mind you, Soccs is alright, though.

[Mikhail Chigorin]

I wouldn't be looking down the nose at the Spanish.
Corruption in Football is not limited to Spain, its a worldwide phenomenon.
Last seasons PL prime example.

Sorry I didn't mean just in football. It started somewhere in Phillip II's administration, followed down through every one since, some more notable than others (Dictatorships), and follows through to illegal building in the 90s and 2000s, Marbella and all that. I'm a big hispanophile, but it's a national pastime. There's been massive attempts to clamp down in the last 10 years, but it keeps coming out.

Crikey John, if you're going back to the time of Philip "The Prudent" you must have a long memory........

Seriously though, I'm really impressed.

I'm even more well up on the Visigoths. You get bored when you are too old to play sport!

How very true .

I can well understand how you can be a "big hispanophile"; I feel the same about Sweden and its past.

History is an all consuming interest.

[Original Dub]

It's all in your head...

[carolina-blue]

It's all in your head...

LOL