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FIFA vs BBC Match Thread Panorama BBC 1 10pm 29/11/2010

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  • #2
    the untitled user
    Registered Users Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭the untitled user


    Ooh, allegations of 3 other FIFA officials taking bribes, should be worth a watch. Let's hope Panorama have more than circumstantial evidence this time round...


  • #3
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    10pm? It's already over.


  • #4
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Jesus, the BBC can't get their timing right can they? Three days before the World Cup decision and then the same time as Barcelona v Madrid? Idiots.


  • #5
    syngindub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    About time we had bbc1 + 1


  • #6
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    yeah my bad :o


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  • #7
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    For anyone that missed it
    Part 1

    Part 2


  • #8
    ctrl-alt-delete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,328 ✭✭✭✭ctrl-alt-delete


    I watched it and there was some real evidence, but it is not a recent thing, from memory I think it stems from between 89 and 99. Except for the african ticket tout guy.
    What amazed me more were the conditions set down by fifa for the host, which the dutch have leaked, the main one being that a tax free haven must be set up for fifa.
    Basically I think the bbc are of the opinion that there is very little money to be made from hosting the tournment, the dutch worked out that they would host it at a loss.


  • #9
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭secman


    That anyone should be surprised that there is coruption in FIFA is surprising in itself. Same goes for the Olympic Council.


    Secman


  • #10
    JimsAlterEgo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭JimsAlterEgo


    you can see where FAI takes its lead form


  • #11
    the untitled user
    Registered Users Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭the untitled user


    Was pretty underwhelming. Nothing really new here if you've been following Andrew Jenning's stuff before, getting fed up of the shots of him getting ejected from Hotel's and the like. Still, it's good to see him making more headway on the ISL stuff, get the feeling FIFA wont be able to ignore him for much longer.

    As an aside, at least something concrete has come of this:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/30/ioc-fifa-hayatou-bbc-panorama


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  • #12
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Regardless of the programme, the BBC cant try and justify the timing was anything other than sensationalist journalism, the same thing tabloid newspapers do before any big tournament in England.

    None of what was said was new or needed immediate airing.

    It could have waited until after the bids were in, or even weeks before. Sh*t job the national broadcaster has done on the bid, which incidentally I think was probably not going to win anyway. Hope I am wrong as it would be handy having the World Cup on the doorstep.


  • #13
    the untitled user
    Registered Users Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭the untitled user


    dooferoaks wrote: »
    None of what was said was new or needed immediate airing.

    The detail of the payments is new. The Swiss courts previously found evidence of the payments but not where they went. It remains to be seen, but this could actually do a lot more damage to FIFA in the long run than the Sunday Times thing.


  • #14
    JimsAlterEgo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,917 ✭✭✭JimsAlterEgo


    dooferoaks wrote: »
    Regardless of the programme, the BBC cant try and justify the timing was anything other than sensationalist journalism, the same thing tabloid newspapers do before any big tournament in England.

    None of what was said was new or needed immediate airing.

    It could have waited until after the bids were in, or even weeks before. Sh*t job the national broadcaster has done on the bid, which incidentally I think was probably not going to win anyway. Hope I am wrong as it would be handy having the World Cup on the doorstep.

    the cynic in me says that England now have their excuse for not getting it


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