FIFA ... bent, corrupt, double-dealing, cynical barstewards

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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Jun 03, 2016 4:11 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36445879" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Blatter, Valcke and Kattner awarded themselves £55m over 5 years...

Done nowt wrong though.... :roll:

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Post by bobo the clown » Fri Jun 03, 2016 6:31 pm

Worthy4England wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36445879

Blatter, Valcke and Kattner awarded themselves £55m over 5 years...

Done nowt wrong though.... :roll:
Oooh. Be fair. That's only £11m pa.





Between 3 of them. So under £3.75m pa.



Are we sure that's £'s btw ?
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Post by TheHeatonWanderer » Sat Jun 04, 2016 3:52 am

About time and all Fifa got exposed for the crooks they are! It's been corrupt for decades, should just start a new football governing body because Fifa are never going to recover from this.

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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Nov 11, 2016 8:54 am

As if any more proof was needed of what a shambles of an organisation this is. Put to one side a moment whether you agree with poppies or not. FIFA have released a statement saying they haven't banned them but advised the nations of the rules around wearing of "political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images". Whether an association (or I guess individual footballer) is in breach of this is determined by an "independent" committee that's not the Governing Body, after the event. So the rules aren't clear and it's nothing to do with them.

If the governing body can't pass "edict" on minor things like this, what the fcuk use are they (I think we probably already knew the answer to that anyhow)...

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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Nov 18, 2016 9:19 am

^^ What a set of irrelevant arseholes they are. I wonder how much the FIFA investigation will cost into the "poppy" problem that no one outside of FIFA seemed to be the slightest bit bothered with.

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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:57 am

Couldn't be arsed with a new thread...

I see FIFA have increased the number of teams at the World Cup from an already tedious 32 to 48. Nowt to do with money I'm sure :roll: Still, at least there is an outside chance that Scotland will make it now.

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Post by CrazyHorse » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:15 am

They'd have to increase it to 128 teams before Scotland has an outside chance of making it.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:26 am

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:Couldn't be arsed with a new thread...

I see FIFA have increased the number of teams at the World Cup from an already tedious 32 to 48. Nowt to do with money I'm sure :roll: Still, at least there is an outside chance that Scotland will make it now.
And they'll be asking for the draw to be re-drawn if they don't like who they get.
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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:37 am

CrazyHorse wrote:They'd have to increase it to 128 teams before Scotland has an outside chance of making it.
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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:38 am

Bruce Rioja wrote:
Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:Couldn't be arsed with a new thread...

I see FIFA have increased the number of teams at the World Cup from an already tedious 32 to 48. Nowt to do with money I'm sure :roll: Still, at least there is an outside chance that Scotland will make it now.
And they'll be asking for the draw to be re-drawn if they don't like who they get.
It'll be seeded as such to make it as easy as possible for the so called big teams, though you can be sure England would make a meal of it :roll:

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue Jan 10, 2017 2:58 pm

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:Couldn't be arsed with a new thread...

I see FIFA have increased the number of teams at the World Cup from an already tedious 32 to 48. Nowt to do with money I'm sure :roll: Still, at least there is an outside chance that Scotland will make it now.
And they'll be asking for the draw to be re-drawn if they don't like who they get.
It'll be seeded as such to make it as easy as possible for the so called big teams, though you can be sure England would make a meal of it :roll:
Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan welcomed the expansion, saying it was a a "positive step".

Yeah - bring on fecking Krakatoa :roll:
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Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:43 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote: Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan welcomed the expansion, saying it was a a "positive step".

Yeah - bring on fecking Krakatoa :roll:
Even if they manage to beat San Marino to qualify, I'm sure Malta will knock them out first round :lol:

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:42 pm

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote: Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan welcomed the expansion, saying it was a a "positive step".

Yeah - bring on fecking Krakatoa :roll:
Even if they manage to beat San Marino to qualify, I'm sure Malta will knock them out first round :lol:
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Post by BWFC_Insane » Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:15 am

Can't wait for more games where one small countries team spends 90 minutes defending whilst a European or South American team eventually beats them 2-0. Who wouldn't want to see more games like that in a 2 week period?

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Post by boltonboris » Wed Jan 18, 2017 5:35 pm

Reducing the quality of an international tournament football, for the sake of extra advertising revenue... How very FIFA..

Thing is, 2 absolutely shit tournaments will see advertisers eventually drift away, you'd think?
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