UEFA World Cup Boycott?

[Bwian]

Why not just put up a candidate to stand against Blatter?

They tried that yesterday. Blatter has bribed enough people to guarantee that he will win every vote-now and until he dies. The corruption within FIFA has screwed football yet again.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Are we out yet?

 

[nicko31]

I must admit part of me almost doesn't want England to qualify for Russia. A UEFA boycott would deal with Blatter and Putin with one stone, increasingly appealling

 

[nicko31]

I disagree with a boycott and I fully agree that every nation no matter how small should get a vote. That's Democracy

Who are the English FA and German FA and American FA and all the other to try and bully and influence the others to vote how they want them to vote.

And as for Sepp Blatter. Do we really really know that he is shit at his job. We are fed all this media hype telling us that he is corrupt but he has not been arrested for anything he has done wrong. If he had done then YES there may have been just cause for him being forced out.

And much as I cannot stand Russia's President Putin, he is correct. What the **** does all this have to do with the FBI. Why wasn't an Investigation carried out by an organisation not specific to any one country. So Putin is correct, the USA are meddling in more foreign affairs that does not concern them. After all, they have a history of bulldozing countries around the world and leaving them in a bigger mess than how they found them

For once Money cannot buy what people want and the large FA's in Europe do not like that and as far as I am concerned that's just tough shit. And anyhow, for every England or Germany or a France or USA waiting to pull out, there is a Slovenia or a Latvia or Belarus or Slovakia waiting to step in so a boycott would be useless.

So you think the sponsors would be happy to see England, US, France and Germany replaced with a few Eastern Europe minnows? A boycott of major national would be highly effective, money talks..

 

[Kevlar]

why do you think the countries who voted for Blatter would join an alternative World Cup?
They would also miss out on their continents international competition
The most likely scenario would be the World Cup continuing without the
European countries yes diminished and with less sponsorship but a World Cup
of European teams plus Australia and the USA isn't a World Cup.
The best hope for cleaning up FIFA a bit is for convictions in the courts.

 

[Ernest]

why do you think the countries who voted for Blatter would join an alternative World Cup?
They would also miss out on their continents international competition
The most likely scenario would be the World Cup continuing without the
European countries yes diminished and with less sponsorship but a World Cup
of European teams plus Australia and the USA isn't a World Cup.
The best hope for cleaning up FIFA a bit is for convictions in the courts.

The new darts soon overtook the old darts as the legitimate World title as the top stars all went to the new organisation, the same would happen to FIFA. 5k crowds watching Cameroon v Russia in front of a minimal crowd does not bring sponsorship money in, England v Germany does

 

[Triggaaar]

Seriously - if those big 4 from Europe pulled out then they'd probably take the rest of Europe with them barring Russia and possibly Spain.

Do you really think Real Madrid and Barcelona would want to give up on Champions League football?

 

[Beach Hut]

Blatter clearly considers himself above the law unless the law can do something about this. A boycott should happen as Russia is quite possibly more corrupt than FIFA and as stated the idea of the World Cup in Qatar is beyond a sick joke.

 

[Black Rod]

Blatter gets votes because he gives each association a decent share of FIFAs revenues. It's like communism. And as long as the poor and less well off nations are doing well out of it, they will always vote for him

 

[Wozza]

And anyhow, for every England or Germany or a France or USA waiting to pull out, there is a Slovenia or a Latvia or Belarus or Slovakia waiting to step in so a boycott would be useless.

Yeah, would give the world's biggest companies a chance to crack some huge new markets...

 

[Kevlar]

football is not darts .there will not be 2 Brazilian football teams.
we can boycott others may follow pressure would be exerted .
but just like the Olympics the show will go on without us.
diminished ,less sponsorship ,but there will be a World Cup,with or without us.
If I was a betting man I would risk a fat wedge on no boycott.
The best chance of cleaning up the game is to jail some criminals.
But where there's brass there's muck.

 

[BensGrandad]

The biggest hope is that one of the accused sings in an exchange deal for a lighter sentence

 

[Pavilionaire]

What alternative is there to a boycott of FIFA? Blatter's endemic bribery has guaranteed his re-election four times now. It's rotten to the core and a World Cup in winter in Qatar tangible proof that FIFA will do whatever it takes to earn a fat payday.

I favour a boycott of the 2022 World Cup and an extra European Championship.

 

[Eeyore]

Scotland threatening to pull out a tournament they've been boycotting since 1998....

 

[carlzeiss]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...mandate-oust-Sepp-Blatter-FIFA-president.html

 

[Kevlar]

remember Platinini the head of UEFA voted for Quatar.

 

[drew]

The biggest hope is that one of the accused sings in an exchange deal for a lighter sentence

Chuck Blazer is, thankfully, already squealing, hence the reason he was miked up.

 

[drew]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...mandate-oust-Sepp-Blatter-FIFA-president.html

No doubt a bit of pressure on the Fifa delegate for France from PSG and from Barcelona to the Spanish rep. Seems the only hope of a clean up are further arrests from the FBI.

 

[essbee]

I disagree with a boycott and I fully agree that every nation no matter how small should get a vote. That's Democracy

Who are the English FA and German FA and American FA and all the other to try and bully and influence the others to vote how they want them to vote.

And as for Sepp Blatter. Do we really really know that he is shit at his job. We are fed all this media hype telling us that he is corrupt but he has not been arrested for anything he has done wrong. If he had done then YES there may have been just cause for him being forced out.

And much as I cannot stand Russia's President Putin, he is correct. What the **** does all this have to do with the FBI. Why wasn't an Investigation carried out by an organisation not specific to any one country. So Putin is correct, the USA are meddling in more foreign affairs that does not concern them. After all, they have a history of bulldozing countries around the world and leaving them in a bigger mess than how they found them

For once Money cannot buy what people want and the large FA's in Europe do not like that and as far as I am concerned that's just tough shit. And anyhow, for every England or Germany or a France or USA waiting to pull out, there is a Slovenia or a Latvia or Belarus or Slovakia waiting to step in so a boycott would be useless.

Joke of a post.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...t-consider-boycotting-the-Fifa-World-Cup.html

An England boycott may seem a good idea it would do little, but if UEFA boycotted that would be a totally different ball game.

Enough is enough think UEFA needs to act and act fast. Blatter can finally go and reform can start

Will never happen ...... sadly.