rolling lol FIFA thread

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hooray remember the day when Sepp Blatter resigned and there was no more corruption and the World Cup became a free festival

damn

now we can start asking for the resignation of the new guy

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.

Probably on his way to the escape pod right now

sounds like putin when medvedev was pm

was just gonna post ^^^

Now which was longer, Blatter's 5th term as President of FIFA or Chuka Umunna's candidacy for the leadership of the Labour Party?

it's the right decision. it was never going to be a comfortable journey for fifa with such a weak blatter

qatar?

Sepp didn't vote for Qatar

or so he says

i believe him

If the new President is anyone other than Bobby Charlton flecked with the blood of St George then I'm calling a fix.

Might settle for the reanimated corpse of Bobby Moore as well.

George Zornick ‏@gzornick 21 minutes ago

Sepp Blatter should take a job at JPMorgan Chase, where DoJ won't bother him.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/5/1401928561609/World-Cup-Willie-001.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGgt4z7UkAAJsLB.png

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.

The violence of the stupidity on display here is just...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/fifa-arrest-silver-lining.html

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

LOL USA

We are now the world’s sports cop.

SPORTS COPS this fall on CBS

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.

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.

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.

i'm sepptical there will be big lasting changes to FIFA tho

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/

Also Traffic-related: http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id/5764564/anguish-gale-agbossoumonde

the NY Mag writer appears to be about 11 years old so i guess there's time for him to learn about that stuff

xxp two soccer leagues few in states care about are evidence of what?

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.

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"

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.”

Chuck Blazer's unsealed guilty plea:

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

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.

His blog is all-time

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

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.”

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/delaney-fifa-paid-fai-substantial-amount-after-henry-handball-680220.html

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

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

Bears, popes etc.

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".

Sepp Blatter says he has not resigned as Fifa president.

http://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_m5vw1zRuT91qi0j6io1_500.jpg

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

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