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Blatter fails to Condemn Henry

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  • #52
    flahavaj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,235 ✭✭✭✭flahavaj


    deadhead13 wrote: »
    Sepp Blatter takes the piss out of the FAI's request to be the 33rd team at the world cup.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkrK-2IGvTg


    How is this man the President if FIFA?

    In fairness this was the response the FAI's ridiculous and laughable request deserved. Once again they make us a laughing stock.


  • #53
    Pisco Sour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭Pisco Sour


    deadhead13 wrote: »
    This is a bit more like it...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7i5CJq3mg

    Magic


  • #54
    noodler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,519 ✭✭✭✭noodler


    Head of a major world sporting organisation? Very professional.


  • #55
    Fenix
    Registered Users Posts: 1,422 ✭✭✭Fenix


    Regardless of the FAI and it's ridiculous request, Sepp Blatter really made a clown out of himself in his handling of the matter. Should have been kept behind closed doors. Instead he uses it for a cheap laugh at a press conference. Embarrassing for FIFA tbh.


  • #56
    Davidth88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    deadhead13 wrote: »
    Sepp Blatter takes the piss out of the FAI's request to be the 33rd team at the world cup.



    How is this man the President if FIFA?

    I saw this , SO RUDE !!!!!

    The FAI were silly to ask to be honest , but to laugh at them in public is totally rude .


  • #57
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Everybody on this forum laughs at the FAI publicly, they're a bunch of incompetent f*ckwits.


  • #58
    Bandit12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭Bandit12


    astrofool wrote: »
    Everybody on this forum laughs at the FAI publicly, they're a bunch of incompetent f*ckwits.
    And FIFA likewise


  • #59
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    Blatter isn't as big a clown as John Delaney.


  • #60
    deadhead13
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    Pal wrote: »
    Blatter isn't as big a clown as John Delaney.

    Clown or not, if the BBC's Panorama reporter Andrew Jennings is to be believed, Blatter is in no position to decide what is or isn't fair play - or to lecture others on it.

    http://www.transparencyinsport.org/

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Foul-Secret-Bribes-Rigging-Scandals/dp/0007208111


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  • #61
    Pal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,115 ✭✭✭Pal


    Blatter was rude
    Delaney was stupid.

    get it ?


  • #62
    daveyboy_1ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,352 ✭✭✭daveyboy_1ie


    Great response from FAI today, fair play to them for clarifying what was actually requested and what Blatter actually did with this info:

    http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/1202/blatters.html

    The full FAI statement.
    The Football Association of Ireland acknowledges that the suggestion of an additional place at the World Cup is not a possibility and has requested yesterday that it will not be raised at today's FIFA Executive Committee meeting.

    The FAI has already clarified that this matter was peripheral, was not raised in any of its formal written submissions to FIFA, and was explored only fleetingly as part of a wide-ranging 90 minute discussion with that body. Regrettably the matter appears to have been singled out in public by Mr Blatter despite his assurances that the meeting would remain private.

    Instead of diverting attention, we would prefer that Mr Blatter uses this opportunity to deal with the issues which have been raised formally for the benefit of football worldwide.

    1) Ensure that FIFA's rules cannot be changed mid-way through a tournament, for whatever reason, commercial or otherwise.

    2) Introduce video technology for matches at the highest level which has been resisted for too long and which would have avoided the error that led, in part, to today's meeting.

    3) Implement additional goal line assistant referees for all FIFA international matches.

    4) In future, introduce stronger sanctions for players involved in match defining breaches of the Laws of the Game.

    5) Issue a clear statement that FIFA does not condone breaches of the Laws of the Game. For a man in Mr Blatter's position to empathise with someone who scored a goal by cheating is inappropriate.

    The FAI raised these matters only so that the likelihood of such incidents recurring be reduced and now leaves their consideration in the hands of football's world governing body.


  • #63
    antomorro-sei
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    Fair play to the FAI (don't like saying that :p)

    That Blatter chap is a goon of the highest order.


  • #64
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    antomorro-sei wrote: »
    Fair play to the FAI (don't like saying that :p)

    That Blatter chap is a goon of the highest order.


    If the world don't see FIFA for what it is (Goon boat) then i am loosing total faith in world football .

    I guess i will be wrong as most countries aint looking (or have reason) to look at FIFA in the same light we Irish are.
    Its a disgrace of a organisation , whos own morals are now in question and ran by clowns .

    M.


  • #65
    leninbenjamin
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    adrian280582 wrote: »
    Blatter had no right to have said what he did and it should have been kept behind close doors.

    That pretty much was said behind closed doors. Blatter's notorious for making sure the only people who surround him are his cronies. Any journalist with the gumption to actually ask him a difficult question would have been long ejected before the conference began. Just ask Andrew Jennings.


  • #66
    Leiva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Leiva


    leninbenjamin wrote: »
    That pretty much was said behind closed doors. Blatter's notorious for making sure the only people who surround him are his cronies. Any journalist with the gumption to actually ask him a difficult question would have been long ejected before the conference began. Just ask Andrew Jennings.


    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:http://www.transparencyinsport.org/

    Anybody verify any of the headlines on this site .

    I dont believe everything i read but FFS , this Blatter guy is some Beaut !


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