The Fifa Superthread; Corruption, Arrests and Sepp Blatter's Resignation!

Brego888

A glorious day

godtabh

Something big must be coming down the line quickly.

RobertKK

I guess the arrest warrants must be coming for Sepp Blatter too.

AndyBoBandy

I'd imagine he's had forewarning that the Feds are about to knock on his door!

rob316

Delighted.

There must be some serious evidence against him for him to step down.

Benimar

Beer night

Kirby

I said it in the other FIFA thread. "The election is a moot point. He'll be in jail in a week." I stand by that. The amount of sh*t he was involved in means somebody knows something. He's leaving before he's pushed.

Reedsie

Would love to know the full details. I'm sure he was pushed but we may never find out on what agreement.

blueser

Party time!

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Hopefully its just the start and we get the WC away from Russia and Qatar

inforfun

Good.

Now get that tournament out of that desert.

Lukker-

I think some more federal indictments are incoming. No way he would have run last Friday and stepped down already, he must have some new info.

ronjo

Platini to make his move?

I did think it was strange that France supported him last week...

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Im having a brilliant day now. Thanks for asking FIFA

Ulysses Gaze

Now let's revote on Qatar 22

InTheTrees

Amazing.

Great news.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

Legging it off to a non extradition jurisdiction for sure.

MightyMandarin

So the elections won't be held until sometime between Dec 2015-March 2016; something tells me he knew he was going to resign before last Friday, but wanted to stay in charge for another 6 months or so, probably to clear some of his tracks before he takes off.

Lukker-

ronjo wrote: »

Platini to make his move?

I did think it was strange that France supported him last week...

I doubt it, Platini isn't popular outside of Europe.

Whoever wins will be whoever promises most to the small nations.

Adamocovic

Hopefully more to follow!

Didnt they get dirt on his right hand man about bribes for the world cup in Africa, they must have something on him too surely?

Kerrydude1981

At last he is gone

Step forward John Delaney

patmac

Great news Blatter has resigned hope he off to jail with the rest of his corrupt colleagues.

ollaetta

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Legging it off to a non extradition jurisdiction for sure.

His pal in Russia might have a spare bed for him to bunk on.

Lord TSC

Have to believe he got wind of something coming and is stepping down now before it hits.

Awesome news.

ricero

#thankyoublatter.

Give the job to pele

RobertKK

There is a stat that if a minute's silence was to be held for every worker who died so Qatar could host the world cup, the match would be delayed by 20 hours.
Apart from the rampant corruption, the Qatari winning bid is covered in blood due to the slave like conditions that are being used by Qatar.
Sepp Blatter should have resigned for that alone. Totally unacceptable.

Lithium93_

https://twitter.com/skysports_bryan/status/605782094468378625



https://twitter.com/FrankSunTimes/status/605782193583947776

Savman

Yanks must be coming for him.

efb

Who will replace him?
FIFA needs to be gutted

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He must be scared **** of something

Headshot

I would love David Gill to get a shot at it.

niallo27

What's next though. They are like our politicans, they are all as crooked as each other.

sjb25

Lord TSC wrote: »

Have to believe he got wind of something coming and is stepping down now before it hits.

Awesome news.

He said in his resignation speech that he had a mandate but not everybody in the world of football supported him body's and clubs wonder does that mean uefa or other body's threatened him they would go it alone if he stayed

FatherTed

He was going to go to the Womens World Cup this weekend in Canada. Maybe too close to US?

kingtiger

The sponsors must of said enough is enough

Maybe if enough people protest against the sponsors we may see an end to the WC in Qatar

As the only thing that changes FIFA is money

Dozen Wicked Words

Brillaint work by the FBI. We owe the USA a pint, that or a free pass to invade someone.

ronjo

Can see it been taken from Qatar now if its about the sponsors

Lukker-

niallo27 wrote: »

What's next though. They are like our politicans, they are all as crooked as each other.

Not far off, Uefa isn't much better either, Platini was heavily linked with Qatar's 2022 bid.

I hope Department of Justice take more people down. Fifa's best chance is cleaning house and starting from the ground up under increased scrutiny.

blinding

Has he a good pension sorted out for himself like our dodgy politicians !

Do you need a big pension if you end up in the Big House.

EuropeanSon

Ingerland for 2018!

FatherTed

pickarooney

blinding wrote: »

Has he a good pension sorted out for himself like our dodgy politicians !

Do you need a big pension if you end up in the Big House.

A multi-millionaire in his seventies, I'm sure he'll be all right

Mr.Nice Guy

At last, the one FIFA brown envelope we've all been waiting for: the one with Sepp Blatter's resignation letter inside it.

Feels like summer has truly begun now.

FatherTed

pickarooney wrote: »

A multi-millionaire in his seventies, I'm sure he'll be all right

Not if the USDOJ/FBI have something on him.

Mr.Nice Guy

Thing is the organisation was corrupt well before Blatter. I was listening to David Goldblatt on RTE Prime Time a few days back explaining how the dodgy dealings go back several decades.

While I welcome the departure of Blatter, FIFA has a hell of a long way to go before it can be trusted. I'm not sure there will be a genuine will to change. The fact that Blatter got re-elected shows that they are corrupt from top to bottom.

I don't know how it can be cleaned up without some sort of sweeping external effort.

AndyBoBandy

A nice opportunity to revive this

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

Right Turn Clyde

Watch out for all the UK pundits and talking heads queuing up to put the boot in now that it won't generate bad vibes for the self-confessed Best League in the World™.

BoJack Horseman

Terrific news!

I wasn't expecting this.

I assume today's revelations re: the €10m transfer of cash was the last straw.

King Rat is dead.
Let's hope he sees a court room soon.

Lord TSC

Merged the two Fifa threads into one superthread.

gosplan

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Thing is the organisation was corrupt well before Blatter. I was listening to David Goldblatt on RTE Prime Time a few days back explaining how the dodgy dealings go back several decades.

While I welcome the departure of Blatter, FIFA has a hell of a long way to go before it can be trusted. I'm not sure there will be a genuine will to change. The fact that Blatter got re-elected shows that they are corrupt from top to bottom.

I don't know how it can be cleaned up without some sort of sweeping external effort.

It actually has to be bottom up.

The issue with Blatter was that he was giving FIFA money to tiny countries who had just as much say in picking the president as, say, England or France.

These guys may not have been on the take but if you live in say, St Kitts, and have a nice permanent well paid job as the head of SKFA, then the status quo looks pretty good.

Not sure how you'd change all that without giving too much power to the big countries.

Jesus like, Delaney on 3/4 times the Taoiseach's wage. Expensive hotels in Switzerland.

Fcuking 50k per year and holiday in.