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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

This sort of open acceptance of vice and corruption, however, is antithetical to the way Americans think about sports.

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

x-posts: Hm, I might have missed an 'also' in there.

Tons of people in the rest of the world care about corruption in FIFA - most of what has come to light has been through UK reporting, right? - but only US had the combination of 1) one of the central corrupt people being american, meaning loads of shit took place on US soil and b) the power to force the swiss to arrest people in switzerland.

Frederik B, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link

Senator and former Brazilian footballer Romário stated that "unfortunately, it wasn't our police that arrested them, but someone had to eventually arrest them one day"

Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/06/03/how-a-curmudgeonly-old-reporter-exposed-the-fifa-scandal-that-toppled-sepp-blatter/

“I know that they are criminal scum, and I’ve known it for years,” he said. “And that is a thoughtful summation. That is not an insult. That is not throwing about wild words.”

“These scum have stolen the people’s sport. They’ve stolen it, the cynical thieving bastards,” he said. “So, yes, it’s nice to see the fear on their faces.”

Let's go, FIFA! (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

Chuck Blazer's unsealed guilty plea:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2093153-blazer.html

dan m, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link

http://chuckblazer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/my-blog-gets-name-change.html

On my couch, sitting near enough to be part of the conversation was the translator; while on Mr. Putin's was Vitaly Mutko. The conversation began in a normal enough way, each of us thanking the other for making time for the visit. Genial welcomes continued until at one moment, he looked at me with a very serious gaze and said, without cracking a smile, "You know, you look like Karl Marx!"

I guess I could have responded to his observation in any of a dozen unpredictable ways. Instead, I simply winked at him and said, "I know". This brought an immediate response with him lifting his right arm up in the air and thrusting it forward to give me my first High-5 from a Prime Minister.

r|t|c, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link

His blog is all-time

dan m, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link

lol at Putin-Animal-Trainer-At-Large photo series

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link

This is what we have all been waiting for:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/04/fifa-crisis-warner-says-avalanche-is-coming-as-blazer-testimony-is-heard

“Not even death will stop the avalanche that is coming” he said. “The die is cast. There can be no turning back. Let the chips fall where they fall.”

Petite Lamela (ShariVari), Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link

At this rate, FIFA is about to reveal that Leo Messi never existed.

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link

BBC investigation: Warner's not innocent either http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-33039014

StanM, Sunday, 7 June 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link

Bears, popes etc.

Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 June 2015 12:33 (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 (...), Tuesday, June 2, 2015 6:57 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

qatar?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (...), Tuesday, June 2, 2015 6:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Okay, now I'm wondering if there's a fantastic pun doing the rounds that only I have missed up till now, or whether it's just a fantastic potential pun that only works if you know Norwegian: A traditional word for "urinary tract infection" in Norwegian translates directly into English as "bladder catarrh".

anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link

two weeks pass...
three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqO6tK8_Wg

dan m, Monday, 20 July 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

Like the sadness in his eyes in the still, like Drake in a strip club

tsrobodo, Monday, 20 July 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link

expression on blatter's face as the cash rains down reminding me of

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02521/miliband_2521088b.jpg

bizarro gazzara, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

No shortage of LOLs

Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 October 2015 10:50 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

CONCACAF & CONMEBOL heads arrested, again, today, along with others.

pratt truss it (dan m), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link

lonely guy

jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 4 December 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Sepp Blatter and the longtime Fifa president’s one-time heir apparent, Michel Platini, have been banned from football for eight years, ending the career of the former and definitively derailing the vaulting ambitions of the latter.

The Fifa ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert, has ruled that both men should be banned despite their protestations that they did nothing wrong when Blatter paid the Uefa president 2m Swiss francs (£1.35m) in 2011, nine years after both men claimed it was originally due.

The committee found that: “Mr Blatter, in his position as president of Fifa, authorised the payment to Mr Platini which had no legal basis in the written agreement signed between both officials on 25 August 1999. Neither in his written statement nor in his personal hearing was Mr Blatter able to demonstrate another legal basis for this payment. His assertion of an oral agreement was determined as not convincing and was rejected by the chamber.”

In addition to being banned, Blatter was fined 50,000 Swiss francs or £34,000 and Platini 80,000 Swiss francs or £54,000.

Number None, Monday, 21 December 2015 08:55 (eight years ago) link

Blatter conducting a classic press conference right now, juicy quotes left, right and centre.

Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 21 December 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link

This + the results of the Spanish election = my kind of xmas.

xyzzzz__, Monday, 21 December 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link

Let's go, FIFA!

Lionel Richie the Wardrobe (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 21 December 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link

two months pass...

habeas fifam

mookieproof, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:06 (eight years ago) link

Switzerland 12 points

Cosmic Slop, Friday, 26 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

Fifa presidential election: Gianni Infantino succeeds Sepp Blatter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35673743

...Prince Ali bin al-Hussein was third with four, while Jerome Champagne failed to get any. Tokyo Sexwale withdrew before voting began in Zurich....

For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Friday, 26 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link

Tokyo sexwale what a name

a hoy hoy, Friday, 26 February 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...
one year passes...

And here we go

http://deadspin.com/fifa-finally-releases-full-world-cup-corruption-report-1796454359

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 16:53 (seven years ago) link

Hi Mr Warner:
Jamaica owes the english FA 215,000 USD and another 18500 USD
to a private english firm. You are one of the most powerful man in
Football and the english FA were at our CFU Congress. Mr
Warner is it possible for you to ask the english FA to waive Jamaica
debt. This is an emergency. - Neville Pennant

r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link

could quote from the warner / england 2018 section all night, comedy gold

r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:16 (seven years ago) link

A good local rundown on the bits of the report relating to Uncle Jack.

http://wired868.com/2017/06/29/longdenville-haiti-and-the-bankers-son-how-fifas-garcia-report-shatters-the-jack-warner-myth/

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link

5. Efforts to Mask Ties to Messrs. Beckenbauer and Radmann

Internal bid team correspondence and documents indicate that Australia 2022 officials actively tried to conceal aspects of Fedor Radmann’s role with the bid team because of Mr. Radmann’s ties to Franz Beckenbauer. [...] Later in his email, Mr. Hargitay wrote:

"In order to maintain maximum confidentiality, I want to name our project “Road through Babylon” and our two key contacts “F&F.”"

r|t|c, Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

lol

imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link

I'll lol only if Qatar gets (literally) cancelled.

pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:19 (five years ago) link

that's fair

imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link

One can dream, I'spose

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link


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