Possibly, but think of the mouth-watering prospect of the FIFA World champions, Qatar, meeting the ICFFA (Independant Corruption Free Football Assocation) champions, Brazil, to unify the title!
I reckon if those countries all pulled out then many others would join them, who after all would want to belong to an association with none of the biggest football nations in it?
I guess it is possible that the voting process could be declared null and void, under a legal challenge, if there were significant evidence to prove that the whole thing had been corrupted. If that happened then we might end up with the preferred option of England and Australia.
I am guessing that similar discussions to those on NSC are going on on footy bulletin boards around the World, I wonder if there is anything that the fans can do to accelerate change in FIFA, to become a transparent and corruption free organisation fit to run the game we all love.
Not sure about that, I consider the great escape season to be 96/97...which would have Wingy playing for us as an 11 year old!
What impressed me about him was that he gave everything when on loan with us and made it known that he wanted to move back to the Albion permanently rather than stay at...
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John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, I am not at all religious but he represents most of what can be good about religion.
Several people who believed in me and inspired me at important times in my life, few if any on here would have heard of, to whom I will be eternally...
My very thoughts, if there was any truth in it he would have already been to the city to check out all the local attractions, lunch at Donatellos, play the slots on the pier and round it all off with a stick of rock and some candy-floss before heading home again.
That reminded me of the Newcastle fan who put an advert in their local newspaper some years ago, it went something like: "Two acres of grazing land for sale, currently occupied by eleven donkeys"...the phone number was Sunderland Football Club!
Remembering that a Swans fan played a valued part in building Falmer I am hoping that they win...not a great lover of Reading (the town, not books and newspapers)...2-1 to the team from Wales.
OK, I hadn't seen that...but Beckenbauer might change his view very quickly if the ethics committe, meeting today, confirm what we all suspect about Blatter and suspend him indefinately.
This is the major stumbling block then, but it effectively means that national football associations are saying they don't mind the fraud and corruption by chosing to do nothing. It will be interesting to see what happens following the comments by Jack Warner, who has to rate as one of the most...