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Sir Francis Drake wrote:

UPDATE.

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"Lets go FIFA,
Lets go FIFA"


Good riddance you crooked old prick.

Maybe grounds for England to prosecute Fifa for failed world cup bid if corruption is centred around the awarding of it. Especially as it forced one club into administration effectively

I'd be feeling very nervous if I were Russia or Qatar today.

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'd be feeling very nervous if I were Russia or Qatar today.

I don't think the WC in Russia is under as much threat as Qatar's. I hope I'm wrong though.

argyl3 wrote:

Maybe grounds for England to prosecute Fifa for failed world cup bid if corruption is centred around the awarding of it. Especially as it forced one club into administration effectively

Argyle can get their World Cup expenses back.....

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'd be feeling very nervous if I were Russia or Qatar today.

Qatar maybe.....Russia too near....time FIFA elect another President which may take until December......then a new selection round to relocate 2018 tournament.....wouldn't be many takers for maybe two and a half year gap before the Tournament starts.

Person Of Interest wrote:

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'd be feeling very nervous if I were Russia or Qatar today.

I don't think the WC in Russia is under as much threat as Qatar's. I hope I'm wrong though.

I'd agree with you.

It all depends on whether there's a paper trail left after Blatter finally departs. I wonder if there's a run on shredders in Zurich.

I read somewhere recently that at the FIFA Congress to decide the outcome of the 2018 and 2022 bids, all the heads of state of the candidate countries were there (remember Cameron and Prince William snooking up to everyone?)....except Putin. Who apparently was so confident about the result that he didn't feel as though he needed to be there. Says a lot I think.

zyph wrote:

Cornish Chris wrote:

I'd be feeling very nervous if I were Russia or Qatar today.

Qatar maybe.....Russia too near....time FIFA elect another President which may take until December......then a new selection round to relocate 2018 tournament.....wouldn't be many takers for maybe two and a half year gap before the Tournament starts.

I know it's a very different world, but how long before the '86 World Cup was it taken away from Colombia and given to Mexico?

As you say, though - seems unlikely.

Columbia was due to an eartquake in 84, mexico had one a few months before the 86 finals started

England got the world cup as secretary of fifa was english !
Also no one wanted to host it in those days.

Fifa have arrangement that they pay no tax in host nation.

Werent the olympics given out by 'sweetners' in days gone by.

Elias wrote:

Columbia was due to an eartquake in 84, mexico had one a few months before the 86 finals started

Just looked it up. Colombia withdrew in August '82 because of economic concerns. Mexico was selected in May '83.

As you say there was a big earthquake in Mexico in September '85.

Surely most of the established nations could step in and hold a WC at short notice.

10 x 40,000 seater stadia required but this could be waived and in England we have Wembley, Olympic Stadium, Twickenham, Emirates', Stamford Bridge, Old T, CoMstad, St James Park, Stadium Of Light. Probably Anfield, Goodison, Villa Park that pass too. City Ground, Elland Road, Pride Park, Hillsborough, Ricoh can't be far off.

England could stage a WC tomorrow if it had to. I suspect the same goes for USA, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, S Africa and, maybe, France, Portugal, Belgium/Holland, NZ/Australia, China, Japan/Korea, Mexico and a few others too.

OK so one or two of them might fail and there's joint bids in there but if it had to be done it could be moved somewhere or other at almost no notice at all.

Apart from the stench of corruption I can't actually think of any reason why Russia should not hold a WC. It's a country that just about always qualifies and has good football heritage so once the corruption is put to one side it looks like it's fair enough. It probably should have hosted long ago when you think about it.

None of that can be said for Qatar. Apart from money there is absolutely nothing going for it as a WC host nation. Blatter's days were numbered from the moment he opened that envelope and said "Qatar". Massively unprecedented levels of bribery are the only possible explanation for it winning the 2022 WC. Nothing else makes sense.

8 World Cup Groups -

Group 1 - Celtic Park (60,800) and Ibrox (51,000)
Group 2 - St James' Park (52,400) and Stadium of Light (49,000)
Group 3 - Old Trafford (75,700) and CoM Stadium (47,700)
Group 4 - Anfield (45,500) and Goodison (40,000)
Group 5 - Millenium Stadium (74,500) and Cardiff City (33,000)
Group 6 - Villa Park (42,800) and Molyneux (36,000)
Group 7 - Emirates (60,000) and Olympic Stadium (54,000)
Group 8 - Wembley (90,000) and Twickenham (82,000)

Quarter Finals at Wembley, Murrayfield (67,800), Old Trafford and Millenium etc etc

I really should go out at lunchtime!!

argyl3 wrote:

Maybe grounds for England to prosecute Fifa for failed world cup bid if corruption is centred around the awarding of it. Especially as it forced one club into administration effectively

The club was going into admin whether that bid got accepted or not. It was badly run and had no sources of income coming in.

Was it the missuse of personal data, and the reading of personal messages that done for old Sepp? Not really suprised, these vile dictators always come a cropper in the end!

Could this be true? FIFA itself is at risk?

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Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Could this be true? FIFA itself is at risk?

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Hopefully.

argyl3 wrote:

Maybe grounds for England to prosecute Fifa for failed world cup bid if corruption is centred around the awarding of it. Especially as it forced one club into administration effectively

sorry to disappoint but England were eliminated in the 1st round of voting.
weren't france, spain and Portugal in the running too ?


with news of fifa bribing the irish maybe some games could be looked at for corruption..................

1986 - hand of god
2014 brazil v Croatia pen to give brazil the lead
2014 final - neuer not sent off, then messi given player of tournament !!!!!
2010 lampard goal not given
2002 - Italy knocked out by dodgy decision
1994 - Italian not sent off against spain ? in semi final
1998 - Ronaldo playing to not piss nike off.
1990 ? England seeded when they shouldn't have been.
2006 voting when new Zealand bloke changed his vote (was voting for SA then went for Germany) and left immediately..............................

We're on to arms deals now.

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Arms deals. For a World Cup vote.

Not some tinpot 3rd world place: Germany.

This is going to get messier and messier. I wouldn't be surprised to see some mysterious deaths amongst the key players before long.

and top it all over it now turns out that sepp blatter was banging cristiano ronaldo's ex irina shayk before she got with him!!!


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money talks

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Russia and Qatar could lose their world cups after all.

Maybe Qatar but not Russia, not without starting another bloody shitstorm anyway.

Les Miserable wrote:

Maybe Qatar but not Russia, not without starting another bloody shitstorm anyway.

plus England wouldnt get either world cup if they did and i woudnt have an issue with that.

An unlikely saviour awaits his opportunity.

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