Sepp Blatter 'It's all the British fault'.

[Leekbrookgull]

To me the only way to overturn the 2022 vote,thats if you want it overturned (?) is via social media and boycotting the main sponsor's products for example if people in European countries stopped buying Coca-cola etc,you get my drift. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe UEFA should form a breakaway governing body from FIFA, would work just fine.

 

[The Wizard]

'Qatar claims are racist' Wow... Just wow.

This man is truly a MASSIVE bellend at best, wonder how much he got paid?

 

[Gwylan]

Maybe UEFA should form a breakaway governing body from FIFA, would work just fine.

Eh? One of the prime drivers for Qatar was Michel Platini, UEFA boss. How would that help?

Most of the indignation about Qatar is mere froth; something to occupy people on social media. There's no real anger about it, otherwise we would be seeing boycotts of Coca Cola, Sony, BP etc but there's nothing like that. We'd see people refusing to go to World Cups, but there's none of that either.

We all know that, even though they're dodgy as hell, the next WC will be in Russia and the one after that will be Qatar and that there will be thousands of England fans there, all happily drinking Budweiser.

 

[Ernest]

UEFA more bent than FIFA, Platini hates the British which is why he came up with FFP and too thick to realise that PSG would fail it

 

[Hillian1]

Well bugger me, I'm racist.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Maybe UEFA should form a breakaway governing body from FIFA, would work just fine.

I think you will find UEFA is nearly as bad as FIFA although David Taylor , Platini's ex number 2 , is a great guy and above reproach. Platini = Blatter = Platini = ya de ya de ya..


TNBA

TTF

 

[Cian]

there will be thousands of England fans there, all happily drinking Budweiser.

Is Qatar going un-dry for the WC then?

 

[Triggaaar]

To me the only way to overturn the 2022 vote,thats if you want it overturned (?) is via social media and boycotting the main sponsor's products for example if people in European countries stopped buying Coca-cola etc

I agree. If enough people from the likes of the US and UK wanted it to be clean, they should go out of their way to avoid products from WC sponsors. If people did it, the sponsors would demand action/stop sponsorship, and then we could get change.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

But to be fair, whilst I would love an alternative to FIFA and UEFA, is all of this just a British thing or are other countries as disenfranchised as us?

I actually think we could be on our own, and the nightmare that is Sepp Blatter, is perceived as just a lovable Uncle in Europe.......

Any of our foreign supporters any idea?

 

[severnside gull]

I blame it on UKIP..........

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

UEFA more bent than FIFA, Platini hates the British which is why he came up with FFP and too thick to realise that PSG would fail it

Fine. Trickle down. UEFA breaks away from FIFA. give it a couple of years, then Premier League breaks away from UEFA or a cricket-equivalent Kerry Packer/IPL type set-up emerges. It's all up for grabs. Seems patently obvious to me that its only a matter of time, probably within five years, that the Champions League will be exactly that, and the Premier League will be bumped down a rung on the footballing ladder.

 

[Cian]

But to be fair, whilst I would love an alternative to FIFA and UEFA, is all of this just a British thing or are other countries as disenfranchised as us?

I actually think we could be on our own, and the nightmare that is Sepp Blatter, is perceived as just a lovable Uncle in Europe.......

Any of our foreign supporters any idea?

Very much hated here, albeit mostly due to Henrygate.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Fine. Trickle down. UEFA breaks away from FIFA. give it a couple of years, then Premier League breaks away from UEFA or a cricket-equivalent Kerry Packer/IPL type set-up emerges. It's all up for grabs. Seems patently obvious to me that its only a matter of time, probably within five years, that the Champions League will be exactly that, and the Premier League will be bumped down a rung on the footballing ladder.

Yes you can see it happening. Wasn't Karl Heinz Rummenigge trying to set something up a few year ago with the bigger clubs, and they increased the number of Champions League places?

 

[Hugo Rune]

Here is the statement from CAF via BBC website:

" At its general assembly in Sao Paulo, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) condemned what it termed "the repeated, deliberately hateful, defamatory and degrading attacks by some media, notably British, on the image and the integrity of the Confederation of African Football, its president, its members, its member associations and the entire African continent."

I'd like to think our media is not racist. Could be time to leave FIFA if it is found that many CAF officials were bribed.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Oh the irony if Blatter's own intransigence over repeated corruption claims ultimately leads to the downfall of FIFA and the creation of a new body to oversee modern football. I hope he gets to see that as his rotten legacy and suffer regrets for many, many years. Platini isn't very far behind him either.

 

[somerset]

Here is the statement from CAF via BBC website:

" At its general assembly in Sao Paulo, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) condemned what it termed "the repeated, deliberately hateful, defamatory and degrading attacks by some media, notably British, on the image and the integrity of the Confederation of African Football, its president, its members, its member associations and the entire African continent."

I'd like to think our media is not racist. Could be time to leave FIFA if it is found that many CAF officials were bribed.

Its simply Blatter (and some of his sidekicks) diverting as much attention away from him, he hopes that the usual scapegoat for all the world's ills, Britain, will help dilute any focus on his dodgy dealings.

 

[lawros left foot]

Find it quite ironic that Fifa and Uefa, can accuse anyone of racism after their repeated failure to adequately punish member countries, for numerous examples of blatant racism from fans, players and, in a few cases clubs and federations

 

[red star portslade]

The final straw he appears to be clutching at is the one taboo subject he thinks the world will back away from and he will avoid the investigation he knows will finish him and his big pocketed chums. Hopefully common sense and the truth will prevail... Sadly I somehow doubt it will.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Eh? One of the prime drivers for Qatar was Michel Platini, UEFA boss. How would that help?

Most of the indignation about Qatar is mere froth; something to occupy people on social media. There's no real anger about it, otherwise we would be seeing boycotts of Coca Cola, Sony, BP etc but there's nothing like that. We'd see people refusing to go to World Cups, but there's none of that either.

We all know that, even though they're dodgy as hell, the next WC will be in Russia and the one after that will be Qatar and that there will be thousands of England fans there, all happily drinking Budweiser.

There won't be a world cup in Qatar. And if by some miracle there is, then it certainly won't be in the form they bid for.