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Sepp Blatter?!

  • 29-05-2002 5:50pm
    #1
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭


    First, why do global sporting bodies all seem to be ruled by corrupt old men and second how the hell did Blater get
    re-elected given the list of charges he is facing in a legal action?.

    I guess the FAI is where it starts and FIFA is where it ends. :(

    Mike.


Comments

  • #2
    FatB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭FatB


    ..........Or the other way round! As we all know, you can be as corrupt as you like as long as your fellow people are corrupt also.......... I reakon (spelling?) that most of F.I.F.A. are corrupt!


  • #3
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Blatter has PROMISED 2010 to an African nation. Even though his only rival was African, he still managed to sway the vote. You should have seen his victory speech. It was breathtaking.
    He said something along the lines of "what about all the people now who said a while ago that I do bad things and I am bad person. I think this means you all still vote for me, and we are all good people". Hilarious. A victory for corruption no doubt about it. Even given his poor English, its a funny speech to be making.
    The Cameroon guy wanted to totally clean up FIFA's finaces, and this didn't go down well with many people, even his own Afircan colleagues. A pity, because Blatter is a wànker.


  • #4
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I saw some of the Blatter speech after his re-election
    and it was toe curling, we are all brothers together and we will
    make the world a better place type guff.

    Lennart Johanson must be wondering why he bothers...

    Mike.


  • #5
    tHE vAGGABOND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,693 ✭✭✭tHE vAGGABOND


    the Economist went to town on him a couple of weeks ago. They seem certain that he will get found out during the next few years as being corrupt as feck..

    At the same time, he won by a good long way, so maybe it was like the US Election (and indeed French election) where they selected the lesser of two evils :)


  • #6
    Bateman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,818 ✭✭✭Bateman


    Yeah they voted for the lesser of two evils as far as their own interests are concerned, but not for the lesser of two evils as fasr as the good of the game in concerned. I have heard frmo a number of places that FIFA are going to have large debts revealed soon after the WC, a lot of it probably has to do with the TV disaster, but its worse than that, problem is that Blatter will paper over the cracks big time, and the problems could be a lot worse when it finally comes out, whereas the Cameroon guy was going to try to fix the financial problems, even if it involved stepping on toes.


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