such a weird bunch of lads. afaict blatter has a tiny bit of accumulated moral authority, but the wider committee has been on the take since the TV era and is kind of a laughing stock (but *ha ha sad laugh*)
blatter is a cretin about rule changes btw.
― caek, Thursday, 12 May 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/12/14/sports/soccer/blazer1/blazer1-blog480.jpg
how can you not trust someone with a beard like that?!?
― Frightening, but full of facts that are difficult to argue with. (dan m), Thursday, 12 May 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPBy9FTkXkE
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
is that a 7 minute song about jack warner?
― caek, Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
It certainly is.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.socceramerica.com/article/42342/americans-at-center-of-fifa-bribery-scandal.html
<3 this lawyer, he helped us out with the Fire club charter when ownership were being sticks in the mud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ScvAJG51V4&feature=player_embedded
― dan m, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
first 4 pages of today's guardian sport section are about these jokers
― caek, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/may/26/sport
― caek, Thursday, 26 May 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
ok 3 pages
Chuck Blazer, eh? Didn't think he had it in him.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
It's alluded to in the comments of the SoccerAmerica article, but there is a lot of speculation going on in MLS circles about how this is some kind of effort to prop up Blatter so the league can get exception to single entity and teams per league limits imposed by FIFA. It's interesting, but I dunno if I can give the league brass credit for being that organized.
― dan m, Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing says 'free election' quite like a summary trial of the non-incumbent candidate put together at two days' notice.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 26 May 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13559384.stm
hope this total shitbag mediawhore is gone soon...mind you fifa must be a hydra for this kind of thing.
― Suggest Banter (Local Garda), Thursday, 26 May 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
not you too sepp! say it ain't so. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13574338.stm
"It feels like at last the dam is breaking around them. It is a bit like the scene at the end of Reservoir Dogs when everyone has a gun pointed at each other's heads."
― caek, Friday, 27 May 2011 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
It's an interesting move from Blazer given his history with Jack Warner. As far as i can remember, Warner was heavily criticised back in 1989 for selling 45,000 tickets to the 28,500 capacity World Cup qualifier between T&T and the US and allegedly pocketing the cash. There were stronger allegations from some quarters that he arranged with the US to throw what was, effectively, a decider - letting the Americans qualify in return for unspecified favours. Even twenty years ago, there was no real doubt he was as bent as a nine bob note.
Head of the US football authorties at the time - Chuck Blazer. The man who fixed it for Warner to become CONCACAF President - Chuck Blazer.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/MJHgx.jpg
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Friday, 27 May 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
^ What's Mike Hancock MP doing on this thread?
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
"When a Swiss farmer's neighbour has a cow while he has none, the less fortunate farmer will work twice as hard so that one day he can buy a cow as well," he said.
"When another farmer, elsewhere, on an island, say, has no cow but his neighbour does, that farmer will kill the neighbour's cow out of sheer malice. I'd rather be a Swiss farmer, like it or not."
-- Sepp Blatter on today's allegations
― caek, Friday, 27 May 2011 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
something something put them out to pasture
― dan m, Friday, 27 May 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
another farmer, elsewhere, on an island, say,
can't believe the Icelandic FA are taking this shit
― blueski, Friday, 27 May 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
on an island
Uh, hello Albion!
― For one throb of the (Michael White), Friday, 27 May 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
xp figured it was a Trinidad and Tobago reference myself
― dan m, Friday, 27 May 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
love that he used Swissness in the analogy. so much for neutrality.
― blueski, Friday, 27 May 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Basically, he's saying that Russians and Qatari are ambitious cattle farmers and the English are malicious bovicides
― For one throb of the (Michael White), Friday, 27 May 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Fifa, it has often been said, is a one-cow town.
― boxall, Friday, 27 May 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
And Blatter def knows how to milk it.
― For one throb of the (Michael White), Friday, 27 May 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Jack Warner gets all Alan Partridge, warns of 'football tsunami'
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 28 May 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
"I have lived three score and almost ten and my Jack hasn't been hanged as yet"
shit, starting to like him...
― bluer than american whites (blueski), Saturday, 28 May 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
Looks like Blatter will be running unopposed.
Bin Hammam has pulled out of the election on the day of his ethics hearing:
"I promise those who stood by me that I will walk with my head held high and will continue to fight for the good of the game.""I have a special thank you to my friend and colleague Jack Warner for his unlimited support. I am sorry to see that he has to suffer because of me, but I am promising him that I will be with him all the way through thick and thin.""I look forward to working closely with my colleagues to restore Fifa's reputation to what it should be – a protector of the game that has credibility through honesty, transparency and accountability. It saddens me that standing up for the causes I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of Fifa's reputation. This is not what I had in mind for Fifa and this is unacceptable.
"I have a special thank you to my friend and colleague Jack Warner for his unlimited support. I am sorry to see that he has to suffer because of me, but I am promising him that I will be with him all the way through thick and thin."
"I look forward to working closely with my colleagues to restore Fifa's reputation to what it should be – a protector of the game that has credibility through honesty, transparency and accountability. It saddens me that standing up for the causes I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of Fifa's reputation. This is not what I had in mind for Fifa and this is unacceptable.
Warner has angrily denied accusations that he failed to support the US's World Cup bid adequately:
The US is accusing me of not working hard enough for them. What more you want me to do, go in the people house and sleep with them? I can't do that!
Also:
http://i.imgur.com/pgypN.jpg
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
good lord that man is disturbing
― dan m, Sunday, 29 May 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
and blazer is a weirdo too
― dan m, Sunday, 29 May 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
FIFA clears Blatter in bribery scandal.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Blatter cleared, other guys not, everyone happy
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
"Oh shit" says Jerome Valcke, live on telly.
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
Vote to go ahead, only one candidate, 50% needed to win, control of world football and billions of dollars at stake, 2022 still scheduled to go to Qatar
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
great bunch of lads
― caek, Sunday, 29 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
5.59pm: Damaseb on why Blatter was cleared: "The allegation is that he failed to report to the authorites a report made to him that Bin Hammam intended to make payments. Mr Blatter's version is that indeed Mr Warner told him that the meeting was going to be held and take Bin Hammam intended to make these payments. Warner denies the allegations, he says he never says anything like that. Blatter says he was told. Blatter says the obligation to report did not arise because he was asked for advice and an opinion and informed Warner that that should not happen. So he did not have the evidence that a wrongdoing had taken place. At that stage no wrongdoing had occurred, he was only being asked for a view and he discouraged the asker."
― caek, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
6.23pm: "Having listened to the press conference, I still don't understand why Blatter was not suspended," writes Pamela Hulley. "Can you shed any light on this?" As I understand it, under Article 129 in Fifa's regulations members are only compelled to report to the ethics committee if a "wrongdoing" has taken place. Blatter says he was told that Bin Hammam intended to make these $40,000 payments and he advised against it. At that stage no wrongdoing had taken place, so he was under no obligation to report it.
― caek, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
By the letter of the law, he's not got to go.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, it's perfectly fucking reasonable for the President of any organisation to not report serious corruption among two of his top guys on the basis of semantics.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe if we all act outraged enough on this thread, Blatter will do the right thing.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
After this glorious victory over his detractors, the least the world can do to honour the man is rename the sport (which would get rid of the American/Australian/Gaelic football/soccer confusion) as Blatterball.
― StanM, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
That american journalist who tried to stand on a 'clean up fifa' ticket, but couldn't get any support - I bet he feels very silly tonight.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
Bad weekend for Jack. Yesterday, a judge ordered the T&T football association to make an interim payment of £700k to the 2006 Soca Warriors team, with millions more expected to come. This is something of an advance on the £496 they each got from Warner for taking part in the World Cup four years ago. Still, when the PM is away on state business, it's reported that he's left in charge of the whole country.
The Blatter judgement is astonishing. Is it standard practice to ask the whiter-than-white President of an international organisation for advice on whether to illegally bribe various members of that organisation?
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
presumably (and i can be thick at times) this is all a blatter team smear against bin hammam? in other words none of this would have come out if there weren't an election.
― nultybutnice (whatever), Sunday, 29 May 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I hardly think this is a time for cynicism
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit like a microcosm of 21st century Russian politics with Blatter as Putin. They key to retaining power isn't necessarily to be corrupt, it's to ensure that everyone else is. As soon as someone, in this case bin Hammam, steps out of line, you can bring perfectly legitimate charges against them and make them stick. You ignore the equally valid allegations against your allies as long as they know to stay in line. Either the whole edifice collapses or Blatter goes on until he's dead.
― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Sunday, 29 May 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
you said it better than i could
― nultybutnice (whatever), Sunday, 29 May 2011 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol fifa
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 29 May 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
lol indeed, but surely this is the end for fifa now? The only people who can deal with Blatter from here onwards are those who don't mind looking totally corrupt themselves. For any other body this would be fatal, and even fifa must find it a bit awkward eventually.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 29 May 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
His blog is all-time
― dan m, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
lol at Putin-Animal-Trainer-At-Large photo series
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 21:57 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/other/delaney-fifa-paid-fai-substantial-amount-after-henry-handball-680220.html
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:37 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
Bears, popes etc.
― Willibald Pirckheimers Briefwechsel (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 June 2015 12:33 (eight 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 Permalinkqatar?― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (...), Tuesday, June 2, 2015 6:58 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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 (eight years ago) link
Sepp Blatter says he has not resigned as Fifa president.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
http://www.raindance.org/wp-content/uploads/tumblr_m5vw1zRuT91qi0j6io1_500.jpg
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pqO6tK8_Wg
― dan m, Monday, 20 July 2015 16:18 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
No shortage of LOLs
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 October 2015 10:50 (eight years ago) link
CONCACAF & CONMEBOL heads arrested, again, today, along with others.
― pratt truss it (dan m), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
also this happened
http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/12/03/14/Issa-Hayatou.jpg
― pratt truss it (dan m), Thursday, 3 December 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
lonely guy
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 4 December 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
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.
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
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 Blatterhttp://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
https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-soap-opera-actress-who-captured-chuck-blazers-heart
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 15 April 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
And here we go
http://deadspin.com/fifa-finally-releases-full-world-cup-corruption-report-1796454359
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link
Hi Mr Warner:Jamaica owes the english FA 215,000 USD and another 18500 USDto a private english firm. You are one of the most powerful man inFootball and the english FA were at our CFU Congress. MrWarner is it possible for you to ask the english FA to waive Jamaicadebt. This is an emergency. - Neville Pennant
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
could quote from the warner / england 2018 section all night, comedy gold
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 19:16 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
lol
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
I'll lol only if Qatar gets (literally) cancelled.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
that's fair
― imago, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
One can dream, I'spose
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
The year is 1986. The sign on Maradona's shirt says "No drugs" , on Platini's "No to corruption" 🤣 pic.twitter.com/8VTJosPxZL— Rumen Tabakov (@minimal1023) October 5, 2019
lool
― calzino, Sunday, 6 October 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
Sadly Platini's doesnt say no corruption
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 6 October 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
No rogues.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 October 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
off to a good start
World Cup in Qatar is off to a hot start….the other day we got a peak into the Fyre Fest looking tent city for fans and now a Danish TV reporter is forced off air while live by Qatari security pic.twitter.com/UUYzp7ojI1— Wu-Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) November 16, 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Greek salad at the Qatar World Cup fan zone 🇶🇦 38 Rial (£9) pic.twitter.com/K5taOhM9Q3— Footy Scran (@FootyScran) November 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Fyre Festival Presents... World Cup 2022
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
and Murder Inc. artist Ja Rule *will* be performing “Always Off Side” during the opening ceremony
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
irlol
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link