FIFA delegates getting their cummupence! Blatter GONE today.

[aguero93:20]

I'd say he's blowing his own trumpet there a bit. The FBI had Warner and Blazer under wire tap for over 3 years and got enough evidence on both to charge them with wire fraud and tax evasion. They handed over the evidence that triggered the arrests. I'm not coming up with this due to yesterday's coverage either, I posted on here about it when Blazer was arrested last summer.

 

[aguero93:20]

The FIFA President is elected by a democratic election. It is literally the exact meaning of the phrase

I suppose the Pope is democratically elected then as well? When do I get to vote on the next FIFA president?

 

[Damocles]

I think my point is that at the moment FIFA have a choice between an old man who is good at keeping power, and spreads the influence and development of football all around the world to do so. Or we have a candidate who is hand picked by Michel Platini to finally put a UEFA man at the top without the political ramifications of it being a UEFA man who is unelectable.

Countries actually vote FOR Blatter to keep UEFA out because they'll do what they do with everything else and concentrate the power in the hands of the few for the commercial gain of them.

This is a bit like our struggles against UEFA in as much as they convinced the whole world that we were the "bad guys" so to speak, and whilst some complaints about it may be legitimate they didn't really care that we were good or bad, they just wanted to protect their cartel.

 

[Damocles]

I suppose the Pope is democratically elected then as well? When do I get to vote on the next FIFA president?

When you become a head of an FA which is a member of FIFA. Yes, the Pope is also democratically elected. Because FIFA and the Vatican are both membership clubs and their members elect their leader. No different from the leader of a political party

 

[Damocles]

Another UEFA member trying to influence power proceedings

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Another UEFA member trying to influence power proceedings

Oooo that's interesting....come on Blatter all is forgiven ;)

Funny how a raggy **** like him tries to come across as all things good and pure.

 

[aguero93:20]

When you become a head of an FA which is a member of FIFA. Yes, the Pope is also democratically elected. Because FIFA and the Vatican are both membership clubs and their members elect their leader. No different from the leader of a political party

Exactly my point, the presidential election is so far removed from the grassroots members that it's not democratic.
Just like the EC among other bodies. The Vatican isn't democratic either, at no stage are everyday Catholics (members of the church) invited to vote for their representatives. It's a concentration of power in the hands of the few already, you're just picking one side over the other. It's hardly as if, for all Blatter's posturing with the smaller nations, that the majority of money going into FIFA actually makes it's way into grassroots is it? You just have to look at how poorly funded it is in the richest countries at grassroots level even when the game is by far the most popular sport ffs. You're espousing an ideal that doesn't actually exist. If FIFA are funding grassroots football in Africa, then how come there are no grassroots facilites apart from the ones provided by charities like Yaya and Kolo's, or by entrepenuerial agents?


I've seen what a truly democratic organisation with grassroots sports at the heart of it (the GAA) can do with a (proportional) fraction of the economic wealth that FIFA have and it puts the cunts to shame.

 

[Damocles]

It's hardly as if, for all Blatter's posturing with the smaller nations, that the majority of money going into FIFA actually makes it's way into grassroots is it? You just have to look at how poorly funded it is in the richest countries at grassroots level even when the game is by far the most popular sport ffs. You're espousing an ideal that doesn't actually exist. If FIFA are funding grassroots football in Africa, then how come there are no grassroots facilites apart from the ones provided by charities like Yaya and Kolo's, or by entrepenuerial agents?

I'm espousing that UEFA are corrupt, power hungry cunts who want to give more power to the Manchester Uniteds and Bayern Munichs of the international scene whilst cutting out smaller countries.

The opposite of this is a man who has little real power outside of his influence and has made pretty large steps in making the game more international. That rule about the rotation of the WC through confederations didn't come from Platini and co you know?

 

[aguero93:20]

I'm espousing that UEFA are corrupt, power hungry cunts who want to give more power to the Manchester Uniteds and Bayern Munichs of the international scene whilst cutting out smaller countries.

The opposite of this is a man who has little real power outside of his influence and (1)has made pretty large steps in making the game more international. (2)That rule about the rotation of the WC through confederations didn't come from Platini and co you know?

(1)Only to consolidate his own power base.
(2) They weren't the ones that abolished it in 2007 when it no longer suited them either.

 

[Damocles]

It doesn't matter why somebody does a good thing as long as the good thing is done.

Have a guess which Confederation's members barracked for the change in rotation policy. Go on, have a guess