BroodsSexton said:This is going to be a movie, right?
https://twitter.com/McDonnellDan/status/606478128945332225Titans Bastard said:Stuff like this is going to keep dribbling out:
https://twitter.com/McDonnellDan/status/606478128945332225
United Passions review – Fifa propaganda is pure cinematic excrement
Infield Infidel said:Just when we thought it could get worse, a FIFA-GERMANY-SAUDI arms deal
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/05/fifa-scandal-arms-germany-deal-saudi-valcke-warner-delaney-ireland-henry
Infield Infidel said:Just when we thought it could get worse, a FIFA-GERMANY-SAUDI arms deal
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/05/fifa-scandal-arms-germany-deal-saudi-valcke-warner-delaney-ireland-henry
Under-fire FIFA President Sepp Blatter has been named as a former lover of model Irina Shayk.
The vote for the hosting of the 2010 World Cup was actually won by Morocco and not South Africa, amid allegations that both countries offered bribes for FIFA votes
The paper reports, after talking with Michel Bacchini -- a former FIFA director who worked as a consultant to the Moroccan bid team -- that former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner accepted a $1 million bribe from Morocco, but then double-crossed them and voted for South Africa.
ConigliarosPotential said:Today's FIFA scandal news is brought to you by Guido Tognoni:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33044932
If the 2022 World Cup gets moved from Qatar, my money right now would be on Morocco - the new narrative becomes that it'd still be "the first Arab World Cup", righting wrongs from the bidding processes in both 2010 and 2022, etc.
LOL. So corrupt that the executives bribe each other.Bosoxen said:Clearly, Warner got a piece of the pie from Blatter.
Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:
It could be. On the other hand, what if the investigation continues to show that Morocco tried to bribe their way to the 2010 World Cup and was just outbribed in the end by South Africa? Evidence is already pointing in that direction. Its hard to turn the page and usher in a new era of transparency by rewarding one of the countries shown to have been engaged in the corruption.
epraz said:
Is there a country that wasn't involved in the corruption?
ifmanis5 said:I hope they yank Russia's Cup and give it to England and give Qatar's to Morocco.
TomRicardo said:Why? The English were caught trying to bribe too. They were just the second best at bribing
You want a way to lose any goodwill America just got, give Russia's Cup to England.ifmanis5 said:I hope they yank Russia's Cup and give it to England and give Qatar's to Morocco.
singaporesoxfan said:You want a way to lose any goodwill America just got, give Russia's Cup to England.
singaporesoxfan said:You want a way to lose any goodwill America just got, give Russia's Cup to England.
These two are related and the reason the Russia cup is going nowhere and Qatar likely the same. The rest of the world didn't rejoice over the arrests, a moderately sized minority of the nations in FIFA rejoiced. The interests of the voting blocs haven't changed, Asia, Africa, Oceania, half of CONCACAF, and a good chunk of UEFA still support the old Blatter model.DrewDawg said:
Because the US could do this unilaterally?
And would the rest of the world that rejoiced over the arrests really go, "Oh, nevermind"?
McBride11 said:The July temperature avg is also mid 80s to 100s. Cooler than Qatar, but I would imagine a lot of those 'cooling breaks' used in Brasil to be needed here as well.
MentalDisabldLst said:
If we're going to talk about the weather's impact on the players, you also need to account for the humidity. Some context for Jul-Aug averages:
Las Vegas, NV: 15%
Merzouga, Morocco: 20%
Doha, Qatar: 50%
Marrakech, Morocco: 50%
Casablanca, Morocco: 70%
Tangier, Morocco: 70%
Porto Alegre, Brazil: 80%
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 80%
Manaus, Brazil: 80%
Florianopolis, Brazil: 80%
...you get the point. I guess Morocco isn't that much less humid than Brazil, at least near the coast (inland places are, shockingly, quite dry), but there's still a difference.
Bosoxen said:Nice cherry-picking. Try slapping Houston and Miami in there and see how the United States compares.
Not that I disagree that Brazil is more humid overall (the rainforest says hello, after all), but using a desert location as your US example only looks nice on the surface.
Back to your regularly-scheduled Jack Warner bashing.
BrazilianSoxFan said:And of the Brazilian cities listed, the only one in, or even close to, the rainforest is Manaus.
McBride11 said:Does Morocco have the infrastructure? Just looking at stadiumss, they appear to have 2 stadiums at 65k, 4 at 45k, 2 around 30k and several at 10-15k capacity. Seems like there again would have to be numerous stadium redos / upgrades to host this.
McBride11 said:The July temperature avg is also mid 80s to 100s. Cooler than Qatar, but I would imagine a lot of those 'cooling breaks' used in Brasil to be needed here as well.
Edit: bad at reading.MentalDisabldLst said:Your daily update: FIFA spokesman Walter de Gregorio cracks a joke at FIFA's expense on Swiss TV, then resigns (likely forced to)
The joke translates to:
Question: FIFA President Sepp Blatter, his spokesman and the secretary-general are all sitting in a car. Who's driving?
Answer: The police.
GJGE.
ConigliarosPotential said:Re: the English FA and its transgressions, to quote from this article...
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/world-cup-2018-fa-braced-for-fifa-criticism-over-failed-bid-to-host-tournament-9857416.html
..."a set of £239 Burberry handbags were given in October 2009 to the then 22 voting ExCo members – at the time the governing body’s only decision-makers on tournament hosts – as a gift for their wives." You've got to love England's incompetence at everything, including bribery - other countries are doling out seven- and eight-figure sums in cash, and England is handing out £239 handbags.