Blatter resigns

[City64]

Cant the FBI or CIA just shoot the cunt asap ? save a whole lot of shit to be fare.

[Ted Hughes]

Cant the FBI or CIA just shoot the cunt asap ? save a whole lot of shit to be fare.

It would be in the interests of many in FIFA & outside for that to happen, I think. Once he is finally indicted the Russians will probably kill him before he can stand trial.

[Wooders]

Apparently he had an affair with Irana Shayk
Fucking hell I'm starting to like this guy

[Beefymcfc]

I've just read an article where it states that Morocco won the 2010 WC, not South Africa

How the feck can that happen?

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Apparently he had an affair with Irana Shayk
Fucking hell I'm starting to like this guy

My goodness.

What could he have possibly seen in her ??

[patrickblue]

Russia & Qatar may lose World Cups' - Fifa official

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33041467

Russia and Qatar could lose the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively if evidence emerges of bribery, leading Fifa official Domenico Scala has said.

The countries deny wrongdoing in their bidding processes and Scala admits he has not seen evidence of corruption.

Scala is the head of Fifa's audit and compliance committee.

He said: "Should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled."

Speaking to Swiss newspaper Sonntagszeitung, he added: "Until today, the respective evidence has not been provided."

Scala made similar comments at the end of 2013 but in light of events at Fifa in the past two weeks this will be viewed as a more serious warning.

Seven senior Fifa officials were arrested last month in high-profile dawn raids at a Zurich hotel, where they had been staying ahead of their presidential election.

They are among 14 people charged by US prosecutors, who allege they accepted bribes and kickbacks estimated at more than $150m (£100m) over a 24-year period.

Swiss authorities have also launched a separate criminal investigation into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were allocated.

Sepp Blatter, Fifa president since 1998, was re-elected at the Zurich meeting but announced four days later that he would resign amid the corruption allegations engulfing the organisation,

American lawyer Michael Garcia was previously hired by Fifa to investigate the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes.

In November, findings from his two-year inquiry were released by Fifa as a summary of his full 430-page report, but Garcia complained their representation of his work was "erroneous".

The report cleared World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar of wrongdoing.

Garcia quit weeks later over Fifa's handling of his inquiry and his comments reopened the debate about the validity of the bidding process.

Scala has since had Garcia's report reviewed by legal experts both in sport and outside of sport but neither were able to find grounds to alter the award of either tournament at this stage.

[Im_Spartacus]

Now you will know I have a lot of sympathy for Qatar's position on the world cup.......but this today is likely to start to erode any sympathy from me.

http://dohanews.co/gcc-governments-orde ... world-cup/

Who the fuck advises these people?

Qatar has deep enough pockets to follow the British press' every word and nail them for defamation every time a lie is printed, which believe me, has been most days this week, particularly on the subject of deaths related to world cup construction.

Yet they choose the tinpot dictatorship route of media manipulation?

Fucking morons

[City64]

Now you will know I have a lot of sympathy for Qatar's position on the world cup.......but this today is likely to start to erode any sympathy from me.

http://dohanews.co/gcc-governments-orde ... world-cup/

Who the fuck advises these people?

Qatar has deep enough pockets to follow the British press' every word and nail them for defamation every time a lie is printed, which believe me, has been most days this week, particularly on the subject of deaths related to world cup construction.

Yet they choose the tinpot dictatorship route of media manipulation?

Fucking morons

The British press ???? You just found out they are total fucking scumbags with agendas ????

Welcome to 2015 ! lol ;-)

[Beefymcfc]

Qatar should never have been chosen!

[everyonehatesus]

The fact that anyone has died to help with the construction of any part of this world cup bid is bad enough but when figures of 1200 having Lost their lives for working on facilities, accommodation and road works to bring this world cup to completion is a disgrace.

[Im_Spartacus]

The fact that anyone has died to help with the construction of any part of this world cup bid is bad enough but when figures of 1200 having Lost their lives for working on facilities, accommodation and road works to bring this world cup to completion is a disgrace.

Mate, that number is absolute bullshit

The number you are seeing reported has been taken from the embassies of each country in Qatar and includes ALL dead of each countries nationals regardless of occupation. There are over 1m labourers in Qatar. Many of the dead don't even work in construction, most died in road traffic accidents, and the death rate per 1000 is actually a quarter that of India, (considering most are Indian, that's the best comparison) and is in fact lower than in the UK for the same age group.

Sounds a bit less 'tabloid headline' when put like that eh?

Don't be a fucking mug and listen to what the sun tell you, there is a lot of lazy journalism going on at the moment, and most of the information circulating about Qatari labor is blatantly false.

Like I said above, the Qatari authorities need to find the right way to get this information out, rather than trying to manipulate the regional media.

The logical way would simply be to use defamation laws to stop the British press lying about stuff like this, because obviously you've heard this and accepted it as fact, when it's nothing but an out and out misrepresentation of reality.

[Dameerto]

There's an article from the BBC that looks into the number in more detail, where it comes from and the time span that it includes - it turns out it's actually on the low side for deaths for two reasons, the time that's passed after the end of the period covered by that statistic, and the 40% of migrant workers not covered by it at all - but it's also questionable exactly how many are football related, although the organisation which compiled the number claims they needed to count wider construction deaths due to the sheer amount of upgrading of infrastructure going on as a direct result of the world cup.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33019838

[Im_Spartacus]

There's an article from the BBC that looks into the number in more detail, where it comes from and the time span that it includes - it turns out it's actually on the low side for deaths for two reasons, the time that's passed after the end of the period covered by that statistic, and the 40% of migrant workers not covered by it at all - but it's also questionable exactly how many are football related, although the organisation which compiled the number claims they needed to count wider construction deaths due to the sheer amount of upgrading of infrastructure going on as a direct result of the world cup.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33019838

I was really impressed to see the BBC do some actual journalism on this numbers when I read that article. It's the first time I've actually seen a foreign news agency write something balanced about Qatar in months.

However even in there, there's a bit that is false. The 'bleeding heart' guy says that the death rates aren't comparable because all the people in Qatar are fit and healthy because they have a medical - that's not true, the medical is simply screening for communicable diseases. I have high blood pressure and arthritis, but I was passed 'fit' by the same medical, we all have to have it but it doesn't account for any pre-existing conditions like he suggests it does.

I'd just like to see balanced reporting on the subject. Qatar has a lot to answer for, but I just find it unhelpful that the media is blatantly lying about things like deaths to pursue what I see as a rather racist agenda. Unfortunately, as we can see from this thread, people automatically believe what they read, without giving it a second thought

[Mikhail Chigorin]

The fact that anyone has died to help with the construction of any part of this world cup bid is bad enough but when figures of 1200 having Lost their lives for working on facilities, accommodation and road works to bring this world cup to completion is a disgrace.

Mate, that number is absolute bullshit

The number you are seeing reported has been taken from the embassies of each country in Qatar and includes ALL dead of each countries nationals regardless of occupation. There are over 1m labourers in Qatar. Many of the dead don't even work in construction, most died in road traffic accidents, and the death rate per 1000 is actually a quarter that of India, (considering most are Indian, that's the best comparison) and is in fact lower than in the UK for the same age group.

Sounds a bit less 'tabloid headline' when put like that eh?

Don't be a fucking mug and listen to what the sun tell you, there is a lot of lazy journalism going on at the moment, and most of the information circulating about Qatari labor is blatantly false.

Like I said above, the Qatari authorities need to find the right way to get this information out, rather than trying to manipulate the regional media.

The logical way would simply be to use defamation laws to stop the British press lying about stuff like this, because obviously you've heard this and accepted it as fact, when it's nothing but an out and out misrepresentation of reality.

Where's John Pilger when you need him ??

[Paul68]

Cant the FBI or CIA just shoot the cunt asap ? save a whole lot of shit to be fare.

Don't need them mate...
In an open top car driving through florida - doomie on a grassy knoll... boom! job done....
:-)

[Mikhail Chigorin]

Cant the FBI or CIA just shoot the cunt asap ? save a whole lot of shit to be fare.

Don't need them mate...
In an open top car driving through florida - doomie on a grassy knoll... boom! job done....
:-)

Trouble is, Doomie would be far too easily distracted by any passing females and he'd forget all about the mission in hand.

[Paul68]

Cant the FBI or CIA just shoot the cunt asap ? save a whole lot of shit to be fare.

Don't need them mate...
In an open top car driving through florida - doomie on a grassy knoll... boom! job done....
:-)

Trouble is, Doomie would be far too easily distracted by any passing females and he'd forget all about the mission in hand.

True True... and hopefully there wouldn't be a washing machine shop anywhere near either!

[Ted Hughes]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... ey-general

Where the fuck is Chinners btw ?

[Im_Spartacus]

I would imagine this is where it all starts getting a bit uncomfortable for Qatar.

Interesting to see how they've gone about the bribery, by using Qatari construction firms. Of course these firms will be owned by the Al Thani family (ruling family) but give Qatar the ability as a state to deny wrongdoing, and there are no adverse consequences to the construction firms if they get caught, as they only do work inside Qatar.

Qatar can deny state involvement all they want, but all of the big firms in Qatar are Al Thani owned or sponsored. One of the alleged construction firms HBK, is owned by Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, who was the Emir's father at the time of voting (current Emir's grandfather).

But the stupid cunts here are still convinced this is a US plot against muslims. (see some of the comments on the article)

http://www.qatarliving.com/forum/qatar- ... atari-cash

A police investigation in Brazil found evidence of payments made by Qatari construction companies into the secret bank account of a key FIFA voter.

The payments were allegedly made to Ricardo Teixeira, the disgraced former head of Brazilian football who was one of the 14 FIFA executive committee members who voted for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. At the same time, Swiss police have raided the offices of a company in Zurich as part of a wider inquiry into allegations about a friendly football match that was financed by a Qatari construction firm with close links to the emir.

While the payments were not from the official Qatar 2022 bid, they raise questions about whether the companies were seeking favour from their country’s royal family by influencing voters.

Mr Teixeira’s name crops up in both inquiries.

A judge in Monaco has accessed his secret bank ­account in the principality and passed its transaction details to Brazilian police who were already investigating him for money laundering and tax evasion. Brazilian prosecution sources say the account included money from Qatari companies that stood to benefit from World Cup building projects.

An Brazilian ­indictment against Mr Teixeira stated the account contained €30 million ($43m).

Mr Teixeira denied his vote had been influenced. He claimed his Monaco account was set up two years after Qatar won the right to host the World Cup and contained only funds that had come from Brazil. "I voted for Qatar, but I did not ­receive a penny for this," he said.

[Hazy2]

Anthony Devlin/PA
Tom Parfitt in Moscow
Tuesday 3 June 2014 15.20 BST
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+
Shares
29
Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea football club, is to take a leading role in preparations for World Cup 2018 after Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin indicated he should "open his wallet" and help pay for the championship.

Abramovich, who already bankrolls the Russian national team, was a prominent member of Moscow's delegation to Zurich, where Fifa last week awarded Russia the right to host the competition.

While he usually shuns publicity, the tycoon could be seen grinning and embracing other members of the delegation, including Arsenal and Russia midfielder Andrei Arshavin.

Abramovich, 44, is expected to stump up millions of dollars as the country embarks on a £2.4bn plan to build 13 new stadia and renovate three existing ones. A further £7bn is needed to improve tourism infrastructure, in particular to build affordable hotels for fans.

Putin said after Russia's win that Abramovich could ease government spending on construction for the World Cup by investing privately. "I don't rule out that Mr Abramovich may take part in one of these projects," Putin said in televised comments. "Let him open his wallet a little. It's no big deal – he won't feel the pinch. He has plenty of money."