The BlackBear Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I'm kind of wondering if Blatter realised staying on at FIFA would be some kind of confirmation he was aware of the wrongdoings (which he certainly is) that his colleagues were doing. He probably has far better ideas about what is going to come out in this investigation than anyone else. On a positive aspect to this, it does mean there will be more contention for the leadership. Which in theory at least should provide a better candidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooog Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I'm kind of wondering if Blatter realised staying on at FIFA would be some kind of confirmation he was aware of the wrongdoings (which he certainly is) that his colleagues were doing. He probably has far better ideas about what is going to come out in this investigation than anyone else. On a positive aspect to this, it does mean there will be more contention for the leadership. Which in theory at least should provide a better candidate. Of course he does, he is after all the chief engineer of the corrupt gravy train which he built. Unless they bring about wholesale change in how the entire organisation is structured, how it operates and the voting processes we'll be left with a new incarnation of Blatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooog Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 It's also possible that he resigned after the election, because re-signing during the election would mean that Prince Ali wins uncontested. Maybe he has a plan to play Kingmaker for some new toad? It's possible though the press conference seemed so hastily put together and flew in the face of his saturday speech so it seems there are clearly other factors at play and forced his hand sooner than he'd have liked. Also, is there any reason why Prince Ali would've made a good president other than the fact that his name isn't Sepp Blatter? All I know is he's the son of a King, hasn't actually accomplished anything on his own and for the past several years has held a high ranking job in an organisation that is rotten to the core in corruption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 It's possible though the press conference seemed so hastily put together and flew in the face of his saturday speech so it seems there are clearly other factors at play and forced his hand sooner than he'd have liked. Also, is there any reason why Prince Ali would've made a good president other than the fact that his name isn't Sepp Blatter? All I know is he's the son of a King, hasn't actually accomplished anything on his own and for the past several years has held a high ranking job in an organisation that is rotten to the core in corruption I don't think it is any one thing, to be honest. Decisions usually aren't so simple. I think that the implication of Vlacke played a big role in the press conference. I'm not trying to imply that Prince Ali would make a good president. But he obviously isn't aligned with Blatter. So Ali in charge puts Blatter and his comrades on the outs of power. Look at this this way, resigning during the first round of the election would put Ali in power, who seemed to be on ready and willing to bring Blatter and his posse down. Maybe not for altruistic reasons, but certainly this benefits Ali and his allies. I think that Blatter is glory-hungry enough that he really did want to win the election. Not doing so likely means he is finished. But the more recent implication of Vlacke likely played a big role in the out of nowhere resignation. Resigning now also gives him a chance to save face (and his legacy, which he cares about) by cleaning house over the next four months, and possibly hold on to power long enough, by engineering a succession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackBear Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 With all this mentioning of Prince Ali, surely I can't be the only person who keeps thinking of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 http://s1336.photobucket.com/user/Lumpy67/media/Prince%20Ali_zpspkyqw0ow.jpg.html Prince Ali, mighty is he Ali of FIFA... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 nvm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Jack Warner is claiming that FIFA interfered in actual political elections in Trinidad and Tobago. That said, Jack Warner is also a crazy person and very possibly a pathological liar, so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 No, but he did have the music from Inception poorly dubbed in the background. :shocked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigima Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Some incredible allegations today. Chief among them: that Germany gave rocket propelled grenades to Saudi Arabia in exchange for their World Cup hosting support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustavo Fringed Sleeves Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Wow, truly the mid 90's were the watershed of world football. Not only they brought about the 3-point-for-a-win standard, the Bosman Ruling, more globalized World Cups, etc., but a whole new level of corruption as well. Apparently all of the WC's hosts from France '98 onwards have skeletons in their closets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 FIFA picks an interesting time to release a propaganda flick featuring Sepp Blatter as the hero... http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/the-19-most-ridiculous-moments-in-terrible-fifa-movie-united-passions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 FIFA picks an interesting time to release a propaganda flick featuring Sepp Blatter as the hero... http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/the-19-most-ridiculous-moments-in-terrible-fifa-movie-united-passionshttp://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0OL2HA20150605At the first screening of FIFA-funded film "United Passions" in Los Angeles the week after U.S. prosecutors charged several officials of world soccer's governing body, only two people attended - one out of curiosity, the other as a soccer fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Thursday Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 OK, this one is pretty amazing: apparently in the bidding for the 2010 World Cup Morocco may actually have won, but it was still awarded to South Africa! The original report was in the Sunday Times, but that's behind a paywall so here's a synopsis from ESPN: http://www.espnfc.us/fifa-world-cup/story/2482914/morocco-not-south-africa-won-2010-world-cup-vote-report Ismail Bhamjee, a FIFA executive committee member from Botswana, allegedly said in the tapes that he conferred with his 23 other colleagues after the vote for 2010 which was won by South Africa by 14 votes to 10 in May 2004. "After talking with everybody... Whose votes went where? We're all colleagues, you know," he said. "And then we found out that actually Morocco won by two votes." ST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Agrippa Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 HAHAHAHA oh fifa... Seriously, this was needed. I doubt it will change much but let's hope for the better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manhole Eunuchsbane Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 John Oliver stays true to his word and chugs a Bud Light Lime... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bcpZMX_Iqs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dooog Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 FIFA picks an interesting time to release a propaganda flick featuring Sepp Blatter as the hero... http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/05/the-19-most-ridiculous-moments-in-terrible-fifa-movie-united-passionshttp://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0OL2HA20150605 Oh man I need to see this movie. Lifted from wiki: The film carries a production budget of around $25–32 million[1] with the Los Angeles Times reporting an estimated budget of $29 million.[12] Roughly £17 million[13] (90% of the total budget) was financed by FIFA.[2] The film was reported to have loss around $26.8 million in revenue.[2]In North America, the film became an instant box office bomb.[14][1] It opened on Friday, June, 5, 2015 and grossed a mere $319 on its opening day from 10 theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Kansas City, Miami, Minneapolis, Houston, Dallas and Philadelphia, followed by an even worse $288 on Saturday for a two day total of $607.[1] The FilmBar theater in Downtown Phoenix reported a gross of just $9, meaning only one person bought a ticket to see the film.[1]For the film's screening at the Zurich Film Festival on Sunday, October 5, 2014, about 120 people paying $22.70 per ticket watched it in a 500-seater cinema.[2][15] Overall, the highest revenue outside of North America came from Russia and the CIS (£144,000), Portugal (£4,000) and Serbia (£2,000) while the profits from Hungary, Slovenia Switzerland and Ukraine were minimal.[2][15] In France, the film was released straight to DVD.[13] The film currently has a rating of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 9 reviews.[16] On Metacritic, the film has a 1 out of 100 rating based on 7 critics.[17] It is one of eight films in the history of the site to carry the lowest rating; the previous films being The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), Not Cool, 10 Rules for Sleeping Around, inAPPropriate Comedy, Chaos, The Singing Forest, and Bio-Dome.The film has been universally panned by reviewers, who have criticized the poor quality of the drama,[18] the unsuitability of the topic of administrative matters for a movie[19] and the perceived biases of the film, with The Guardian describing it as "cinematic excrement' and "self-hagiography",[18] and others calling it a "cringeworthy, self-aggrandizing affair";[6] and "astonishingly crass".[20] Several reviewers commented on the irony of the portrayal of Blatter in the film as an anti-corruption campaigner. Sara Stewart of the New York Post described it as "hilariously ill-timed",[21] while Paul Field of the Daily Mirror said that this created "unintentional comedy gold" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterfell is Burning Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 I wonder what Sam Neill, Tim Roth or Depardieu would say about this film. I mean, do they need the money this badly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion the Perfect Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Apparently Jack Warner is now being accused of stealing $750,000 intended for earthquake relief for Haiti in 2010. Perhaps instead of extraditing him to the U.S, he should be sent to Haiti for some old school Haitian justice. Calling these guys rats is way too kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Apparently Jack Warner is now being accused of stealing $750,000 intended for earthquake relief for Haiti in 2010. What a guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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