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― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
Why on earth should India, with no real footballing infrastructure and with a national team that has never got anywhere near the finals, be given the World Cup? There are all sorts of reasons why Russia is a terrible idea but it is at least a footballing nation.
In terms of picking a country that actually appears in the finals, the only real options in the Middle East are Saudi Arabia and Iran and there are some pretty obvious reasons why FIFA would never go for either in a million years.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
I mean an India WC would build a gigantic audience for the game but the negative impact on a lot of its poor would be worse than Brazil.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
Having qualified for the World Cup before isn't a selection criteria i care about
― pandemic, Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Indonesian World Cup is the joyous clusterfuck we're sailing towards tbh
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
The wc can't be in asia again until 2034.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
tbh at this point even i'm feeling like for 2026 they should go fuck their bidding process and let the uk do it
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Lol like there'll be a UK in 2026.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
the DK then
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Nah, we don't even have the one stadium required to take part of that pan-european euro championship.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
Scandinavian WC could be a laugh tbf
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
There was one in '58 - there should be one again there.
Doubt India would bid for a WC, game is too small interest over there.
Part of the reforming the process should be to simplify bidding process and requirements.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Anti-India talk here reminds me a little bit of anti-USA sentiment pre '94.
― dan m, Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
with a bit more slave-labour, gentrification & spaceports built atop slums
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
and a helluva lot more trenchant guardian articles
everything fifa has done apart from complicity in serial and ongoing corporate manslaughter in qatar is perfectly defensible
― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
the people in this country rting gary lineker or whichever other noisy demagogic shithead talking abt fifa are mostly upset about the hilarious leading-up-the-garden-path of the england world cup bid rather than dead south asians
― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 May 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
enabling corporate manslaughter isn't exactly a tiny thing to set apart
― tsrobodo, Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/images/2006_1196.jpg
Prince William has written to Fifa demanding it lifts the ban on England shirts being embroidered with poppies.
Fifa decrees that shirts should not carry political, religious or commercial messages.
But the Duke of Cambridge is "dismayed" by Fifa's stance in this case for Saturday's match against Spain.
Clarence House said: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 May 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
this criticism of the english establishment in relation to fifa is itself of course rather parochial but anyway, the blatter clique while unsavoury and corrupt has been villified by the political class for not those things but because it hasn't been venal in the right way (switzerland is london's great rival in friendliness to flight capital, oligarchy, predatory transnationals etc)
the garcia report holds the f.a. responsible for 'irregularities' but being too prudish to do it properly like russia and qatar, england has been burned for years ever since its own dear stanley rous departed fifa (friend to apartheid and involved in the dubious referee selection that benefitted england in 1966)
like a lot of other things in england it's mostly empire hubris and tantrums about loss of influence, so there is this purblind weighting where 'corruption' is upbraided while the meaningful harms consequent from it are of only secondary importance because this country is even more deeply implicated
fifa hopefully will end in its current incarnation, though if that happens the purge of third world elements may just lead to capture by the usual western interests and similar exploitations, merely with less personal corruption
― lex merk a tory ya? (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 May 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
CONCACAF just cleaned out Webb and Li.
― dan m, Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
Not countries, no, have a hard time seeing that. Sponsors, though.â Frederik B, Thursday, May 28, 2015 7:25 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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presumably some of the big sponsors are implicated in this.
― đ đđĸđ¨ (caek), Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
e.g. http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9867075/nike-co-operating-with-authorities-after-fifa-arrests
boy did nike ever make some shady sponsorship decisions in the 00's
― mortal boomkat (NickB), Thursday, 28 May 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
We will have a second round of voting! Blatter gains 133 to Prince Ali's 73: not enough for two-third majority
Of the 209 votes, three were spoiled and so only 206 counted
― Dravidian Miss Desi (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 May 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
this fucking guy
― + +, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Five per cent of Fifa delegates vote that Germany did not win the 2014 World Cup in election test
― mizzell, Friday, 29 May 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
bants
― an absolute feast of hardcore fanboy LOLs surrounding (imago), Friday, 29 May 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
nakh absolutely otm upthread, just listened to the usual pat dismissals of colonialism and any non-Anglo agenda from Bernstein and some hack on Five Live, summing up the tone of most journalism i've heard this week
that's the English dream right there
― probs with the skag (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 May 2015 08:30 (nine years ago) link
Warner bases U.S. critique on Onion story
― mizzell, Sunday, 31 May 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
Yes, has been amusing to see the people who oversaw the sale of prime EPL assets to royal despots, murderous politicians, a money launderer, a heroin trafficker, a fugitive arms dealer and the man who bankrolled the bid for the World Cup we are now talking about boycotting getting on their high horse this week about the corrupting influence of money.
― Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Sunday, 31 May 2015 22:39 (nine years ago) link
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/americas/ex-fifa-official-jack-warner-cites-onion-article-in-defense.html
lmao
― dan m, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
haha yeah http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/31/ex-fifa-vice-president-jack-warner-swallows-onion-spoof
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Monday, 1 June 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
the other funny thing is that the FA seem to believe they are one of the main antagonist to Blatter. like they've understood something other football associations, especially continental associations, cannot possibly understand.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 1 June 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGJwAu1UIAA7GKM.jpg
― There was Bjork from Iceland and Alanis Morissette from Canada (onimo), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
lol looks like one of those suspects boards from the Wire or Sopranos
― ÎáŊĪΚĪ, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
slightly misleading in that sense because that's only the arrested/indicted people below him. there's lots more below who haven't been implicated.
i mean the argument that a lot of his underlings were involved is not a slam dunk anyway, even if "a lot" is like 90%. but it's more like 10%.
― đ đđĸđ¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
i love sepp.
congested defence with the 6-3-1 formation there
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Blatter stepping down
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
^ obscure King Tubby versions
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
seppuku
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
hooray remember the day when Sepp Blatter resigned and there was no more corruption and the World Cup became a free festival
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
damn
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
now we can start asking for the resignation of the new guy
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
I will not stand. I am now free from the constraints of an election. I will be in a position to focus on profound reforms.
― đ đđĸđ¨ (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
Probably on his way to the escape pod right now
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:56 (eight years ago) link
sounds like putin when medvedev was pm
was just gonna post ^^^
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link