FIFA President Sepp Blatter is up next folks...

Omackeral

In 2016 it was celebrities dropping like flies. In 2017 it seems it's celebrities dropping their own flies. Another name to add to the growing list. What's 2108 gonna bring?

The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been accused by Hope Solo, the USA women’s football team goalkeeper, of having sexually assaulted her at Fifa’s Ballon d’Or awards ceremony in January 2013.

In an interview with the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, being published on Saturday, Solo, 36, claimed she “had Sepp Blatter grab my ass” at the glittering presentation of Fifa’s annual football awards for achievement during 2012. Solo presented the Fifa women’s world player of the year award on stage alongside Blatter, to her colleague on the USA team that had won the gold medal at the London Olympics, the striker Abby Wambach.

Blatter, contacted via his spokesman, responded to Solo’s recollection by denying that the incident took place. “This allegation is ridiculous,” he said.

On the official Fifa film of the event, which was hosted by the Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit and the broadcaster Kay Murray, Solo was shown coming on to the stage with Blatter from behind a curtain at the back of the stage, to present the award to Wambach. Talking to Expresso about sexual harassment in general, which Solo says is “rampant” in sport, she claimed Blatter grabbed her behind seconds before they both went on stage: “I had Sepp Blatter grab my ass,” she said. “It was at the Ballon d’Or, right before I went on stage. [Sexual harassment] has been normalised.”

Erik Shin

What's a little ass grab between friends?!

Jim Bob Scratcher

yawn

Omackeral

I think Hope Solo was done for domestic abuse herself. Caught bashing her nephew or something to that effect. That's worse than a grab of the bumbalero. Blather is a creep though.

Yamanoto

Ah ffs, not Sepp

brevity

Omackeral wrote: »

What's 2108 gonna bring?

Flying cars?

Atoms for Peace

Horrible nasty little man hope he gets the chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBnZqqrFIwY

Hande hoche!

Don't think he will get much sympathy in Ireland.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Seems like a generalist. Very well rounded CV of being a cúntbag bullying, corrupt, entitled toerag. Not in the least shocking that sexual assault or harassment would be part of the package.

Mint Sauce

Might take the heat off him, for selling the rights to host WC2018 and 2022.

suicide_circus

Couldn't happen to a nicer kunt.

A total cloud of too much information and lost interest. It was always going to turn into this.

I'm not saying that grabbing a woman's ass before she walks on stage is ok, but a spectacle of it five times a day dilutes the whole thing, which most of us knew would happen based on the other thread's vote.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Horrible nasty little man hope he gets the chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBnZqqrFIwY

That was kinda funny in fairness.

Doltanian

DEFTLEFTHAND

Not doubting any of these stories but at the same time I don't agree with trial by media. I need to see evidence. False claims do happen also. Just ask Ched Evans.

The_Valeyard

Well, this is definitely one famous person id be happy to see go to jail.

Grayson

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Well, this is definitely one famous person id be happy to see go to jail.

He should be in jail already.

Harry Palmr

Hope Solo chop have accidentally chopped him to the ground, she looks like she could.