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Well, I say 'allegations'...
After Bin Hammam and Warner were touted on by fantastically named Santa Claus look-a-like Chuck Blazer, now Sepp has got his own problems to deal with.
The FIFA situation is rapidly turning into the end of Reservoir Dogs. Who's going to be Steve Buscemi?
Chuck Blazer as Mr.Orange
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3QClxhGDWo...600/blazer.jpg
Crisis what Crisis?
God bless FIFA... The way this has gone I foresee John Delaney in power soon enough.
Blatter won't last. Not with big sponsors like Adidas making serious noises. And its only a matter of time before some DA in the US is going to try make a name for him/herself. Some of the alleged dodgy dealings took place in the US.
It was the broadcasters and sponsors who paid good wedge to be associated with the Olympics that forced changed within the IOC.
FIFA is Swiss-based, I have bemoaned for a long time the lack of an ambitious prosecutor / DA in Switzerland who would try and make FIFA more accountable.
All I can say is Platini played this Presidential election supoibly.
Never mind Blatter, seems we've seen the back of Jack Warner as well. Oh yeah!!!
Has Ireland a vote in the Presidential election, i would expect so. And will Delaney vote for Septic Bladder, that dispictable (sp)little man ?
Warner and Bin Hammam now strongly urging their respective regions to back Septic Bladder, Warner in particular cringeworthy style and in violation of his suspension. Can you imagine what kind of shenanigans have gone on in the background? What a joke that organisation is at the top. God only knows what kind of secrets and unnamed victims are buried in Blazer's face rug.
FA and SFA calling for postponement. The same FA that presides over the "worst governed sport in the country" (Hugh Robertson, UK Sports Minister) and is subject to a parliamentary enquiry into its governance. Don't get me going on the SFA's governance.
FIFA is a shambles, but so too are the FA and SFA.
Adidas making their concerns known. I'm sure they're equally concernede about the real details of their relationship with Blatter over the last 20 years becoming better know. There's a wide call for sponsors and broadcasters to become more involved in the governance of thyese organisations. Could you imagine if Murdoch got his talons into FIFA? The only thing I could think of in its favour would be that Murdoch would be able to market a product that could stand up to the EPL. International football has lost its lustre for most people (look at the Irish no-shows...).
chuck blazer has just had his services terminated with immediate effect by fifa ... things look to be getting messy and good ould sepp just ignores it and carrys on with election of 1 canditate himself..Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Now apparently Chucky's not been fired as Lisle Austin, the acting head of Concacaf doesnt have the remit to sack him. The whole sham of an organisation is starting to fall apart, yet it still seems Blatter will stay on for another 4 years.
17 associations voted for the English proposal to postpone election. 17 abstained
The FAI, IFA and FAW were among 172 to vote against that proposal
Disappointing that the FAI didn't vote for a postponement. It might not have been politically expedient to vote for it, but I think it would have been morally right. The way Blatter ridiculed us after the whole Henry handball showed they don't respect the FAI anyway.
It'd be interesting to know who voted for the postponement..
I'm sure Delaney will argue that he voted with his good friend Michel Platini as UEFA had requested. However, Platini is severely compromised due to his alleged pact with Blatter (its likely that Blatter will back Platini to succeed him in four years time).
It might have been a good political (and maybe even financial) move for the FAI and Delaney but as cfdh_edmundo said above it just seems immoral to be supporting someone we know has lots of skeletons in the cupboard.
Hope Mcdonnell in the INDO highlights this, imagine the FAI voting for what was more or less a vote of confindence for Blatter. Wow the FAI are a joke
FAs of England and Scotland plus 15 others, possibly Australia, who in my mind have the most to be bitter about in this whole debacle. Some may have been from the Asian FAs who felt disgruntled about the treatment of Bin Hammam, certainly there was talk they would stage a walk-out in protest. There were another 17 abstentions, so about 16% of the 208 didn't vote for Blatter.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveyCakes
It's seems that the FAI, Welsh FA and Northern Irish FA all voted for Blatter.
Disappointing that the FAW, IFA and FAI voted against the postponement, but not entirely surprising.
FIFA is currently holding an election where there is only one candidate running, his sole opponent having been forced out of the democratic process (the FIFA congress) in shady circumstances. If this were real life, we'd have sent an army and invaded FIFA in the name of democracy. As edmundo said, it's immoral.
...only if they had oil or alleged WMD :)
The worst thing is that the office of President has so much power that weak associations like ours have much to fear by being on the outside.
Some people tend to forget the very high feelings of football supporters here when FIFA seeded the playoffs back in September 2009, when it became very obvious that France, Portugal and Germany/Russia were in danger of not topping the group and facing possible elimination at the expense of smaller countries like ourselves. I suspected at the time that it was in order to get these "favoured" countries through. When the draw was made, I had a very bad feeling that Ireland would get cheated in the play-offs, in which they did with Thierry Henry's handball and there was huge national anger at the time over the matter with Henry and Blatter getting the most coverage. Blatter then came out with a scurillous comment about the Irish looking to be the "33rd" team in the World Cup as a big joke. Now the FAI are supposed to have voted to keep Blatter in power instead of looking for a postponement of the election after the cynical treatment meted in 2009. The FAI are out of order to endorse this man who had the pleasure to belittle the country after being cheated and the grassroots Irish football supporter have never forgotten the blatant cheating that undermined the game of football on that infamous night in Paris. All true supporters of football must petition change and reform in the corridors of power that are FIFA Headquarters and ensure that there is accountabillity and transparency within the organisation rather than a phoney election that even North Korea would be proud of.