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
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
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
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)
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 (nine years ago) link
lol looks like one of those suspects boards from the Wire or Sopranos
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:33 (nine 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%.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
i love sepp.
congested defence with the 6-3-1 formation there
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Blatter stepping down
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
^ obscure King Tubby versions
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
seppuku
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
― alomar lines, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:51 (nine 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 (nine years ago) link
damn
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
now we can start asking for the resignation of the new guy
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:55 (nine 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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Probably on his way to the escape pod right now
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
sounds like putin when medvedev was pm
was just gonna post ^^^
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Now which was longer, Blatter's 5th term as President of FIFA or Chuka Umunna's candidacy for the leadership of the Labour Party?
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
it's the right decision. it was never going to be a comfortable journey for fifa with such a weak blatter
― Frank 4ad (NickB), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
qatar?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
Sepp didn't vote for Qatar
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
or so he says
i believe him
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
If the new President is anyone other than Bobby Charlton flecked with the blood of St George then I'm calling a fix.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Might settle for the reanimated corpse of Bobby Moore as well.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
George Zornick @gzornick 21 minutes ago
Sepp Blatter should take a job at JPMorgan Chase, where DoJ won't bother him.
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/5/1401928561609/World-Cup-Willie-001.jpg
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGgt4z7UkAAJsLB.png
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Fuck it, this is great news actually. The fact he's resigning means something big is about to hit the fan. Sure, it'll take a while for his fetid stench to leave the room but this can only be a positive.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
The violence of the stupidity on display here is just...http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/fifa-arrest-silver-lining.html
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
This sort of open acceptance of vice and corruption, however, is antithetical to the way Americans think about sports.
Compared to the way the rest of the world thinks about sports, of course
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:06 (nine years ago) link
LOL USA
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
We are now the world’s sports cop.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
SPORTS COPS this fall on CBS
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
For a start, we think about sport not sports.
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
I love the part where he tries to replicate how us anti-americans think about american imperialism, and it comes out like this: 'Oh, now that soccer means something to you, you have to make it more American by cleaning it up.' Yes. That's how anti-americans think, the ayatollahs are always complaining about america cleaning places up.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
You are aligning yourself with the ayatollahs?
I think "cleaning it up" is maybe meant to sound more sarcastic sounding than you are reading it. I think it's pretty astute article but what do I know I am probably an American imperialist at heart.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
i'm sepptical there will be big lasting changes to FIFA tho
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
That NY Mag writer needs to learn about Traffic Sports USA if he really thinks we're so righteous in our sporting pursuits.
https://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/05/27/nasls-ties-with-indicted-president-of-traffic-sports-usa-aaron-davidson-run-deep/
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Also Traffic-related: http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5764564/anguish-gale-agbossoumonde
― dan m, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
the NY Mag writer appears to be about 11 years old so i guess there's time for him to learn about that stuff
― turly dark (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
xxp two soccer leagues few in states care about are evidence of what?
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link