This is Fifa, so it will be awesome when Blatter decides to not follow that recommendation =)

Other news concerning the Fifa presidency, Korean candidate Chung Mong-joon is being investigated because of his involvement in SKs 2022 bid, www.bbc.com, but claims that it's a frame job because he turned on Blatter.

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malcram

2752 Posts

October 08 2015 11:24 GMT

#2866

FIFA literally killing itself from within lol... quite the drama though. /popcorn worthy

nitram

Canada5412 Posts

October 08 2015 11:57 GMT

#2867

I thought Platini was a good guy?!

Rebs

Pakistan10726 Posts

October 08 2015 11:58 GMT

#2868

On October 08 2015 20:57 nitram wrote:
I thought Platini was a good guy?!

Well ... not really. And even if he is, everyone just needs to fucking go. They need to literally purge the thing and fix it and there needs to be public oversight on how it runs.

The reason Fifa dodges governments in its MO's, because they dont want to be answerable to anyone and really the only people with enough at stake to really want to watch them are Govts with among other things, tax revenues at stake. Very large sums of them.

Its like Al Capone if you think about it

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

October 08 2015 12:11 GMT

#2869

Pretty crazy indeed. Everyone did it, everyone has done it. Who are the credible ones who are left? At least you would hope within 12 months we would have the people left who are either really good at hiding stuff or are at least half decent.

fbs

United Kingdom2476 Posts

October 08 2015 13:16 GMT

#2870

Fifa have put the head of the African Federation in charge for now? Good god. One corrput arsehole to the next. The whole organisation needs scrapped and run like a charity the way it was meant to be. It will never be like this because of the money the top players earn; those that run the organisation of the sport at the top level expect similar royalties.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

October 08 2015 13:40 GMT

#2871

NuclearJudas

6546 Posts

October 08 2015 15:14 GMT

#2872

Platini voted for Qatar and is probably dirty as fuck, with his son getting a Qatari job right after. No way I want him in charge of FIFA. Then again, there's probably no real good candidates as the whole organisation seems fucked. Though that Prince Ali did sound decent, but who knows what skeletons he might have in his closet.

Really envious if Liverpool get Klopp.

sharkie

Austria18636 Posts

October 08 2015 16:57 GMT

#2873

On October 08 2015 20:57 nitram wrote:
I thought Platini was a good guy?!

There is not a single good guy in the whole football world...
They are all just as bad as Blatter

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

October 08 2015 18:17 GMT

#2874

Part of an article;

But the judge has now accepted the advice of the state attorney, who states that Messi should also stand trial on three counts of tax evasion.

The maximum sentence for the offences is 22.5 months.

Messi in trouble!!

Source

Grettin

42400 Posts

October 08 2015 19:28 GMT

#2875

Lewandowski on fire again. Didn't take long for him to score again.

And Ritchie with an amazing goal: https://streamable.com/5k2v

ZapRoffo

United States5544 Posts

October 08 2015 20:24 GMT

#2876

On October 07 2015 22:01 Azza wrote:
I can see a couple of Dortmund players wanting to follow. But Hummels and Reus deserve better than Liverpool.

Though Hummels just gave up a goal on a straight long ball from a keeper by being totally out of position.

Ireland 1-0 Germany

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

October 08 2015 20:27 GMT

#2877

I'm 100% sure that Germany is going to fall flat on their faces at EURO 16.

The team's offense is an absolute embarrassment. I continue to believe that Germany won the WC in spite of Löw as coach, not because of him. We're still playing a boring, slow, directionless game that is purely based on possession and doesn't have any true CF's in it.

Everything that is wrong with Germany is based on the offense. The defense is only mediocre, but it isn't terrible. If we actually had an offensive game that was worth mentioning, then the lack of pace in the defense wouldn't matter because we're able to possess the ball and create so many chances that we'd be too far ahead for it to matter.

sharkie

Austria18636 Posts

October 08 2015 20:30 GMT

#2878

On October 09 2015 05:27 Stratos_speAr wrote:
I'm 100% sure that Germany is going to fall flat on their faces at EURO 16.

The team's offense is an absolute embarrassment. I continue to believe that Germany won the WC in spite of Löw as coach, not because of him. We're still playing a boring, slow, directionless game that is purely based on possession and doesn't have any true CF's in it.

Germany fans are the worst.
Klinsmann and Löw are the ones who made Germany what they are today yet they still keep insulting them every chance they have -.-

Stratos_speAr

United States6959 Posts

October 08 2015 20:33 GMT

#2879

On October 09 2015 05:30 sharkie wrote:

Show nested quote +

Germany fans are the worst.
Klinsmann and Löw are the ones who made Germany what they are today yet they still keep insulting them every chance they have -.-

Löw is a lot like my hockey team's coach (MN Wild; Mike Yeo).

He's not a terrible coach by any means. He's good. The problem is that he's just not good enough to keep Germany at the top. I dare you to look at this team and tell me that he's handled it well since the WC. The incredible amount of talent on this team and yet they've under-performed in pretty much every single match during these qualifiers.

I'll turn into a believer if Germany actually performs well at the EURO's, but as of now, if you try to tell me that we look good enough to actually perform well and possibly win the EURO's, you're out of your mind.