chrisp65 Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Surely not our Sepp man of the people as well! Fifa President Sepp Blatter is currently being questioned by representatives of the Swiss attorney general.In a statement, the attorney general's office said it had opened "criminal proceedings" against Mr Blatter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted September 25, 2015 Moderator Share Posted September 25, 2015 Interesting that one of the things being investigated is a "disloyal payment" to Michel Platini. Perhaps we'll get two for one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 It was just a matter of time. I'm not sure what a 'disloyal payment' actually is mind you, hopefully it brings Platini down too along with the Qatar World Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 FIFA have confirmed that they won''t change the dates of the Qatar world cup and it'll be played in winter. Good. If they won't move it from Qatar entirely, I hope it's a **** shambles. Awful games with lots of breaks, a few players fainting, almost no goals because the players are all exhausted. That'll do nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 What I'd pay to watch a Hunger Games style fight to the death between Blatter, Platini, Tony Blair, George W Bush, Dick Cheney and all the bank presidents on Wall St.....might as well throw in Donald Trump too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 FIFA have confirmed that they won''t change the dates of the Qatar world cup and it'll be played in winter. Good. If they won't move it from Qatar entirely, I hope it's a **** shambles. Awful games with lots of breaks, a few players fainting, almost no goals because the players are all exhausted. That'll do nicely.average in November/December is 32 and 28. thats lower than Germany and Brazil who hosted 2 of last 3 World Cups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Out with blatter in with platini...Zico in the week is kind of right, moaning that he can't run because he hasn't got the 5 nods but he's got the experience and reputation, FIFA need someone from left field, not someone who is just passing the torch from the old regime, platini will win I'm 100% sure of it and UEFA in its current state is even better than FIFA at putting the £ ahead of the football which is a million miles ahead of the fanAs a non profitable organisation it should be football marginally ahead of the fan base with then the money and sponsors trailing behind, not a clue who the bollocks to implement that but he not be up for election that's for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Platini replacing Blatter would be like beating AIDS and catching cancer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 26, 2015 Share Posted September 26, 2015 Platini is a lot worse than Blatter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Sky Sports News HQ @SkySportsNewsHQ 18m18 minutes ago BREAKING: Fifa sponsors Coca-Cola & McDonalds issue statements calling for president Sepp Blatter to step down immediately #SSNHQ Statement from Sepp Blatter's lawyer: "While Coca-Cola is a valued sponsor of FIFA, Mr. Blatter respectfully disagrees with its position... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Big developments! Blatter, Platini and Jerome Valcke (vice president of FIFA) have all been suspended for 90 days and former vice president Chung Mong-joon has been banned from all football activity for six years. This basically finishes all of their careers in football, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 It should do but I expect Sepp to somehow weasel his way out of it, he is good at thatas for Platini well hopefully UEFA impeach him now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hoping this will be the beginning of the end, but I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 8, 2015 Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2015 I imagine it's the kind of organisation where in order to be in a position of any influence you have to have sold your soul at some point along the way. So I'd say once it all starts to come out, a large proportion of the upper echelons are in it up to their necks. FIFA will need a roots and branch change to clean itself up, if it's even possible at that scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 (edited) What I don't quite understand...Platini took a £1.3m payment from Blatter to (allegedly) not stand against him in the election some years back. Now assuming that was true (it looks that way) then they are both in it together. Why has Platini been trying so hard to take Blatter down? He must have known that if/when Blatter got taken down he'd take MP with him? Maybe that has happened, Blatter had the sinking feeling and didn't want Platini to slide over into his seat so 'leaked' the details. Edited October 8, 2015 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted October 8, 2015 Moderator Share Posted October 8, 2015 I just assume that we don't know the half of it, which is why as you say it's so hard to understand. We clearly don't have all the pieces of the jigsaw (maybe Tim is trying to stick them all in the wrong places?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I just assume that we don't know the half of it, which is why as you say it's so hard to understand. We clearly don't have all the pieces of the jigsaw (maybe Tim is trying to stick them all in the wrong places?).I agree. At this stage it is like secretly sleeping with your girlfriends mate and then having a go at her in public for be a slapper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted October 8, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted October 8, 2015 Predictable response is predicable: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 What I don't quite understand...Platini took a £1.3m payment from Blatter to (allegedly) not stand against him in the election some years back. Now assuming that was true (it looks that way) then they are both in it together. Why has Platini been trying so hard to take Blatter down? He must have known that if/when Blatter got taken down he'd take MP with him? Maybe that has happened, Blatter had the sinking feeling and didn't want Platini to slide over into his seat so 'leaked' the details.Maybe misguidedly Platini hoped that if Blatter just stepped down then all the shit fan-hitting could be avoided, but that never took into account the fact that Sepp is an utter despot. Now it's just going to get messier for them both, rather wonderfully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 What I don't quite understand...Platini took a £1.3m payment from Blatter to (allegedly) not stand against him in the election some years back. Now assuming that was true (it looks that way) then they are both in it together. Why has Platini been trying so hard to take Blatter down? He must have known that if/when Blatter got taken down he'd take MP with him? Maybe that has happened, Blatter had the sinking feeling and didn't want Platini to slide over into his seat so 'leaked' the details.Maybe misguidedly Platini hoped that if Blatter just stepped down then all the shit fan-hitting could be avoided, but that never took into account the fact that Sepp is an utter despot. Now it's just going to get messier for them both, rather wonderfully.Very naive of Platini if true. He can't expect to profit from Fifa's corruption and then profit again from bringing their corruption to light without being dragged in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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