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Blatter Resigns!

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    #32
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,060 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Copa Mundial wrote: »
    Fifa calling it a "courageous" decision. What a load of! Trying to kick the traces and wash his hands of his wheeling and dealing is all it is. Good riddance, but I wouldn't be surprised if his replacement changes nothing. I'm sure Fifa is rotten to the core.

    Sepp Bladder was the core

    Of course it's always gonna be corrupt though... what does anyone expect when so many National Associations are themselves corrupt?! The way to fix corruption isn't to bring a load of corrupt people together, hand them unbelievable power and allow them to oversee billions of euro per year.


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    #33
    Rezident
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    Brilliant news for football. Blatter has been a cancer on world football for so long. I have waited so long for this day. This is a great day for football.


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    #34
    Kristopherus
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    Hope the Yanks are waiting for him when he goes there next week.


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    #35
    NotASheeple
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    Jan Laco wrote: »
    Now they just need to show how Russia bribed the World Cup bid and give it to the USA instead.

    The Americans know enough about dodgy dealings in sport. If the doped up US team at the 1984 Olympics and all those failed dope tests that were brushed under the carpet, are anything to go by. Great to see Blatter finally getting the shove though.


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    #36
    Very Bored
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    Good riddance. Hope he takes that gobbo Platini with him.


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    #37
    Gatling
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    According to the nytimes Blatter is under FBI investigation
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    #38
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Gatling wrote: »
    According to the nytimes Blatter is under FBI investigation

    Didn't take the press to tell us that. I even reckoned it was the case when the who thing broke and for me more goes on watching paint dry than a football match.:)


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    #39
    Birneybau
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    aaronjumper wrote: »
    Had never heard of him prior to this thread. Epic name though.

    "The names Blatter. Sepp Blatter."

    What's the weather like on Mars these days?


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    #40
    Infini
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    http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/sepp-blatter-resignation-smoking-gun-led-fifa-president-to-quit-claims-fa-chairman-greg-dyke-10293057.html

    Aaaaaaand he is gone. Apparently the feds are after him now which is very convenient timing!


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    #41
    Niall558
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    A little bit of a slow start there today infini2?


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    #42
    Very Bored
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    BBC Radio 4 morning news said Platini is favourite to succeed Blatter. Out of the frying pan then...


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    #43
    circadian
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    What's the weather like on Mars these days?

    Red.


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    #44
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    and this is AH version of an own goal...


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    #45
    BoJack Horseman
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    Attention people!

    The Falkland islands have been invaded!
    I repeat.... The Falkland islands have been invaded!


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    #46
    Boom_Bap
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    Multiple threadz merged.


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    #47
    Hoop66
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    The problem with taking the world cups away from Russia & Qatar - which should be done imo - is that, unless they can find watertight eveidence of corruption in the bidding process, the host nations will certainly be going to court. And, in the case of the Qatari royal family certainly, they have very deep pockets.


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    #48
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    You are spot on Hoop. However, its not the only recourse that could be taken. Even without watertight evidence, there is nothing to stop nations pulling out. If the major nations which are against Blatter, FIFA and the awarding of these two venues were to pull out it would leave an almost intenable situation for Russia and Qatar. We know, for example, that England are dead opposed. I know from regular reading of Italian sports media and from following Italian football closely that Italy is of the same opinion. I can't see Germany having any usual with corruption. Even if those three pull out and plan their own, the World Cup starts to look ridiculous. I suspect many other major nations would follow suit even if just those three initiated the process. I know Spain backed Blatter, but from what I can tell they were pretty much alone in terms of the top nations so let them go to Russia and Qatar and obliterate the opposition winning what would effectively a tin pot in the process. I agree that the legal wrangling would leave the actual moving of the World Cup almost impossible to do but it doesn't mean nothing can be done. In fact, its almost more important that something is done because if corruption goes unpunished this time then it leaves the door wide open in future.


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    #49
    Very Bored
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    *that should read truck not usual - flipping predictive text.


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    #50
    Yellowblackbird
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    Hoop66 wrote: »
    they have very deep pockets.

    With these big cloak type robes they wear


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    #51
    Vandango
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    I was delighted to see the Blatter the little Napoleon, forced from his corrupt throne.


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    #52
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    FBI investigating him now....

    http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9873672/Blatter-Being-Investigated-By-FBI-...


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    #53
    Yamanoto
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    M!Ck^ wrote: »
    FBI investigating him now....

    http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9873672/Blatter-Being-Investigated-By-FBI-...

    Cue the swift onset of dementia for the little creep.


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    #54
    chrissb8
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    The big ceremony and clapping for him when he announced his retirement. Honestly that looked like a stupid thing to do. Clap for a president who has dragged football and FIFA through the mud and under his leadership has gotten worse and worse. Couldn't just get up say he's retiring and leave. No no always the egomaniac and out of touch deluded fool til the end.


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    #55
    aaronjumper
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    Birneybau wrote: »
    What's the weather like on Mars these days?
    It's grand, it's actually summer here.


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    #56
    Magico Gonzalez
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    They'll go ahead with Russia, Qatar hopefully not.

    Aside from the bidding process and bribery Russia probably deserves a WC. Large country with a big football following. Politics shouldn't come into it.


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    #57
    Egginacup
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    There's more to this than meets the eye. Since when did the Americans give a toss about corruption OR "soccer"?


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    #58
    Egginacup
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Why now? Why not years ago!!

    Qui bono?


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    #59
    Alexis Sanchez
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    Egginacup wrote: »
    There's more to this than meets the eye. Since when did the Americans give a toss about corruption OR "soccer"?

    They're desperately trying to make "soccer" a popular sport over there because it's the world's most popular sport.


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    #60
    Odyssey 2005
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    aaronjumper wrote: »
    It's grand, it's actually summer here.

    You should stay there so,it's crap here :):)


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    #61
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    Agree with the idea of Russia getting a World Cup. But not getting it through corruption. Also think the Middle East should host a World Cup but that the host should be a reasonably large football-mad country such as Saudi Arabia, Israel or Iran, not one that only wants it for financial gain.


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