FIFA investigating Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam

[Leyton388]

Nothing will happen until one important Country take FIFA to court and is backed by a lot of the other important countries.FIFA will of course throw the country out during the trial but that is what need to happen.

The question is who will be brave enough to take the first step and sue FIFA?

Now is a great opportunity. Australia should take FIFA to court over the bribery allegations. I'm sure that England would back them.

I doubt that UEFA that is a part of FIFA would throw England out if they backed Australia. They simply need the money. The CL would die if they threw out the English clubs.

I think this may happen if it comes out that Qatar bought the 2022 world cup as i am sure the bidding nations will then sue FIFA for damages having spent tens of millions on their own bids for it to transpire that the voting was rigged.

[dom9]

That could end up bankrupting FIFA. That would be wonderful.

[Leyton388]

That could end up bankrupting FIFA. That would be wonderful.

I think it is the only realistic way of bringing them down. The 2022 bidders were the USA, Japan, Australia, South Korea and Qatar. There are enough nations there to do alot of damage to FIFA if this vote turns out it was rigged and i am sure the United states will be at the front of any legal action.

Then you have the 2018 bidders who will no doubt be asking questions of the russian winning bid with England heading up any legal action in this case.

Along with the bidding nations you would then have the sponsors talking legal action im sure. This could be the beginning of the end of FIFA as we know it.

[dom9]

I certainly can't see them carrying on ad they are. They have lost all credibility, if they even had any to start with.

[Bender]

from twitter: My copy of FIFA won't load, Xbox says it's corrupt.

[BrooklynRed]

There are enough nations there to do alot of damage to FIFA if this vote turns out it was rigged and i am sure the United states will be at the front of any legal action.

US Soccer, our Association, is run like a mini-FIFA; Sunil Gulati is the worst, another FIFA-like despot who runs an unaccountable disaster of a program with unilateral authority. He's been involved forever and has done nothing with the US set up; Project 2010 was a joke, etc etc.

The US won't do ****.

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Sounds like A footballing world war is about to go down.

[Arn]

That could end up bankrupting FIFA. That would be wonderful.

I certainly can't see them carrying on ad they are. They have lost all credibility, if they even had any to start with.

I think that it won't be any World Cups or European Championships in 10 years time or so. The clubs will demand so much money in compensation that very few, if any, country could afford it. If Messi for example got a bad injury that ruled him out for six months or so then it would end up costing the Argentine FA astronomical money in compensation. We are talking about £30m+ and that is only for one player.

The owners for the biggest clubs also will demand more and more money. The CL will simply not survive that much longer. How much money could we for example earn if we had an individual TV deal? We could probably easily earn £150m+ a year on a deal like that.

An Super League? It will come, the question is when, not if. That means guaranteed big money. Now they could risk missing out on that.

Everything in the end is about money.

Clubs from the Middle East could also be a part of the Super League. The biggest and richest clubs will be a part of it.

I can see world club football look like the NHL, NBA and MLB in the future. By that I mean that you could buy yourself a place in the league and you play in different regional divisions.

The biggest and richest clubs would then be guaranteed big money every season. They are as I said not guaranteed that now.

The talk of the 39th game is just the start. The Super League will come.

[Fernandinho]

I just want a ****ing re-vote without qatar. I am so sure we would pick so many more votes especially when south korea and japan would be knocked out.

[Neil Young]

I think it would be good in some ways if Australia had won the 2022 World Cup but from the fans' point of view it's probably too far from civilisation.

[McDermotX]

Fantastic

LEOZ AIDE WANTED FA CUP HONOUR
Posted 31/05/11 08:05


New claims surrounding England's failed 2018 World Cup bid have emerged with a report suggesting FIFA member Nicolas Leoz's aide asked for the FA Cup to be named after the official.

FIFA have cleared Leoz, their member from Paraguay, of demanding a knighthood from England but the FA Cup claim will heap further embarrassment on the embattled world governing body.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter insisted "Crisis? What crisis?" at a news conference in Zurich after another day of damaging accusations.

Although FIFA cleared Leoz of personally demanding a knighthood, a report says Leoz's aide Alberto Almirall had mentioned honours or having the FA Cup named after him.

A report by James Dingemans QC into claims made by ex-FA and bid chairman Lord Triesman confirmed suggestions had been made by Leoz's entourage.

An email to bid officials from England 2018's South America-based consultant Les Dickens said: "Regarding the offer to name a cup after him, Alberto's comments were 'Dr Leoz is an old man and to go to London just to meet the Prince and go to the FA Cup final is not reason enough. If this is combined, say, with the naming of the CUP [sic] after Dr Leoz then that could be reason enough' his words literally."

In an email to Dickens, Almirall, who works for the South American confederation CONMEBOL of which Leoz is president, said: "Confidentially I know that he would love to have a decoration from the British Crown or government."

There were internal discussions in England 2018 about what honour might "properly be given" to Leoz, and Triesman said there had been talks about possibly creating an FA Disability Cup named after Leoz to honour his contribution to the Special Olympics.

Triesman made allegations of impropriety against four FIFA members.

FIFA said they have "found no elements in this report which would prompt the opening of any ethics proceedings". Blatter meanwhile admitted FIFA faced "difficulties" but insisted: "Crisis? What crisis?"

The FIFA president appeared at a news conference after another extraordinary day of revelations, claims and denials involving the world governing body's most senior officials.

Blatter, though, appeared defiant and determined to press on with Wednesday's election, where he will now be unopposed.

The conference at FIFA's headquarters came shortly after FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke had confirmed that he sent an email suggesting the 2022 World Cup was "bought" - but insisted he was referring to Qatar using their "financial strength" to legitimately lobby for votes.

Asked about FIFA facing a crisis, Blatter said: "Crisis? What is a crisis? Football is not in a crisis.

"If you see the final match of the Champions League you must applaud. We are not in a crisis we are only in some difficulties and these will be solved inside our family."

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_6960238,00.html

[Craig_H]

I love the fact that there's all this talk of bribery, corruption and money exchanging hands....and, as if to emphasise the point, all the FIFA delegates turn up to the conference, in one flashy Mercedes after another

[Leyton388]

FIFA are ****ed and have lost all credibility. Its only a matter of time before they are ruined.

[Craig_H]

Just seen on the news, the value of Visa, Emirates, Adidas and Coca-Cola's sponsorship deals with FIFA, is £575m.

Which is more than FIFA's total profit from 2007-2010, which was £380m.

They are ****ed.

[Leyton388]

Just seen on the news, the value of Visa, Emirates, Adidas and Coca-Cola's sponsorship deals with FIFA, is £575m.

Which is more than FIFA's total profit from 2007-2010, which was £380m.

They are ****ed.

Publicly they have voiced their concerns but im sure privately they are busting FIFA's balls big time over this.

The true power of football is with the clubs these days and all it will take is for them to revolt and not allow their players to be released for international duty and FIFA and UEFA would be ****ed.