FIFA official are bent... now there's a surprise!

[Titanic]

Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman has accused four Fifa members of improper behaviour in the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9481461.stm

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It is astonishing that FIFA is seemingly above and beyond laws and proper behaviour. I really hope someone takes them all down. It masquerades as a 'charity' and charity does start at home, seemingly. They make my blood boil.

Good on Lord Triesman.

However, do you think that he would be making an issue of it if we had been given the hosting rights? This is not an isolated incident.

It would be great if there was a breakaway and the wealth was to be shared out.

 

[SurreySeagulls]

Not Jack Warner surely. The man who made a tidy profit at the World Cup in Germany

 

[bob monkhouse]

About time to ......

Just been reading some of the stuff Jack Warner has gotten uotp over the years

The guys a total crook...... Allegedly !

 

[Westdene Seagull]

The guys a total crook !

Corrected it for you.

Triesman is right - it should have been reported at the time. Shame on the FA ! Now it looks like "bad loser" syndrome. That said at least he's airing it rather than just forgetting about it.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Just caught the tail end of the report on 5Live. Parliamentary privilege enabling evidence to be heard without threat of witnesses being sued. At last the truth can emerge about the sleaze within the 2018 bidding process.

Confirms speculation that that votes were available in return for knighthoods, cash, England friendlies, TV rights, name your price. Questions raised about the winning Qatar bid too.

Will be even more interested to hear evidence from Triesman's successor - the commentator implied that the 'bidding process' got even spicier during the last 8 months of the 2018 process.

However Blatter and his cronies have created a legal cloak around themselves so wonder if this will just be shrugged off as sour grapes from England. They have already batted off the Panorama and Sunday Times investigations.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I don't see what the FA have got to lose by pursuing this.

We'll never get another World Cup unless there's a massive shake-up at FIFA with top heads rolling. Everyone knows that the next time Europe is scheduled to host it's morally "our" turn, if we do f*** all then you can guarantee Turkey will get it.

 

[Bwian]

Bollocks to them all at FIFA.

After their deceitful and disgraceful way of handing Russia and Qatar successive World Cups, England should tell them all to go f*** themselves and not bother with it any more. Or at the very least, try to form a new organisation.

 

[Triggaaar]

I hope some other nations join in with the truth about FIFA. There's nothing to be gained from us not entering it, we need other leading footballing nations to join together and fight the corruption.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Bollocks to them all at FIFA.

After their deceitful and disgraceful way of handing Russia and Qatar successive World Cups, England should tell them all to go f*** themselves and not bother with it any more. Or at the very least, try to form a new organisation.

This! Yep - time to fold the whole FIFA thing, take the existing lot to court (Swiss extradition permitting), redistribute the money and start all over again. Christ, we invented the organised game but it's been in the hands of wealth grabbing incompetents as long as I can remember.

 

[Triggaaar]

it's been in the hands of wealth grabbing incompetents as long as I can remember.

They're not incompetant at grabbing wealth. These corruption allegations (read facts) are just the tip of the iceburg. A British guy (Mike someone) who worked for the Qatar bid was suggesting the FA should not miss the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of this bid. Nonsense, FIFA made it clear that our bid was the best, and that there were security issues (etc etc) with hosting the games in the countries that won, but we still came last in the voting, and it's clear why.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Blatter is a cunt of the highest order and I cannot wait until he dies.

 

[Gully]

I suspect a lot of the alleged crooks will come up with some anti-Triesman bollocks, try to justify their actions and deny that they are in any way crooked...we have always suspected differently anyway, FIFA is a very sad joke, I will take the word of the Lord over that bunch any day.

 

[Norman Potting]

Regrettably the headline is very much in the mould of "Pope seen wearing funny hat", "bear seen defecating in the woods" variety.

 

[nicko31]

We need to get a consortium of countries together to boycott the next world cup. With the current set up not much to lose anyway..

 

[melias shoes]

Warner saved Blatters neck years ago when Crozier was in charge of the F.A. Crozier wanted Blatter out and a campaign to get rid of him was launched. Warner with his block vote saved blatter and since then his wealth has seen a big improvement,not to mention his rise to the 2nd in command. Nothing will come of this unless hard factual evidence is forthcoming. Even then it will be brushed under the carpet. Blatter speaks of making FIFA clean and trustworthy. He speaks out of his arse.
Allegedly.

 

[DT Withdean]

Warner, Blatter & Co won't care about this.

I'd love it one day if say the FA, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian & Argentinian associations, and anyone else interested, made a complete clean break and went it alone.

The Olympic movement has made a real effort to clean-up after the final corruption of the 2002 SLC Winter Games, where several bribers got prison.

The corrupt elite at the top of FIFA don't care and think they are bigger than Governments, the sport, and everyone.

 

[Wozza]

Didn't the FA cancel the match in Thailand after the failed bid? Kinda suggests the FA was cool with some special deals...

 

[Tooting Gull]

Didn't the FA cancel the match in Thailand after the failed bid? Kinda suggests the FA was cool with some special deals...

Agreed, it looks as if the FA were happy to go along with this kind of grubby thing...as long as they had a chance of winning. The real moral high ground would have been to blow it wide open with the process still ongoing (with, as it turned out, nothing to lose anyway).

I totally believe Triesman on this and what he said about the Premier League, and don't really blame him and the FA in a way, of course you don't want to deliberately sabotage your own chances, it's just a shame they didn't realise we had no chances, then they could have acted properly earlier.

The more comes out, the more you can understand why the FIFA crooks voted the way they did. The corruption is so total, they must have been shitting themselves about a World Cup here with some proper scrutiny.