Blatter and Platini lose appeal... *** Update: Platini detained ***

[essbee]

Drinks for me tonight!!

Wahey

 

[lawros left foot]

Is that it now?

Or can they keep appealling it

 

[TomandJerry]

Good.

 

[The Birdman]

As good as winning 0-4 last night.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

But bans reduced

 

[Westdene Wonder]

Great news however who can we trust to run this organisation perhaps setting up a new group and ensuring no present officials are even considered.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Drinks for me tonight!!

Wahey

Do you mean on you tonight

 

[essbee]

Do you mean on you tonight

No I do bleeding not mean that!

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Is that it now?

Or can they keep appealling it

It isn't it - they will go to the Court of Arbitration.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Platini eh, who'd have thought it?
http://news.sky.com/story/michel-platini-french-football-star-detained-on-suspicion-of-corruption-over-2022-world-cup-11743932

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Platini 'detained'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48673461

Couldn't happen to a nicer fella.

Too late to move te next WC?

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

I would imagine that if it was a decision based on corruption and bribery then it would be far more than one person involved. There would be enough people still within the organisation to ensure that the tournament still goes ahead as planned.

This is of course IF there was wide reaching corruption which I can't say there was or wasn't. (Think i am covered legally with the amount of Ifs?)

 

[AmexRuislip]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48673461

Couldn't happen to a nicer fella.

Too late to move te next WC?

When he ends up in prison, he could don his flowing 70s poodle perm and keep himself onside with Big Sepp Bloater, the wing guvner.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I'm sure its all a misunderstanding. The fact that Platini voted for a World cup in Qatar, PSG got a massive Petrol dollar injection of cash shortly after and his son found his way to the board of directors on a Qatari energy company was all a massive coincidence.

You can get detained for anything nowadays it seems.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

#snoutout

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

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[Gwylan]

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I'm not quite sure how that's different from being arrested.

 

[Easy 10]

I'm sure its all a misunderstanding. The fact that Platini voted for a World cup in Qatar, PSG got a massive Petrol dollar injection of cash shortly after and his son found his way to the board of directors on a Qatari energy company was all a massive coincidence.

You can get detained for anything nowadays it seems.

Also the £1.4m he received from FIFA / Blatter in 2011 for the "consultancy work" he carried out for them NINE YEARS EARLIER clearly had nothing whatsoever to do with Platini backing Sepp in the FIFA elections later that year. Both men are entirely trustworthy, with impeccable character.

Terrible, isn't it.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Could be the end of PSG as well.

 

[Weststander]

Wasn’t it a lovely bonus when Platini fell at the same time as Blatter? Otherwise Platini could well have been FIFA boss for a large chunk of our lives.

Crooked Platini had always assumed that he’d get the FIFA presidency, when his belated partner in crime was ousted or retired.

Being part of the corrupt WC bidding process was his undoing.