FIFA investigating Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam

[Craig_H]

• 2003: Julio Grondona responds to a journalist's question about referee standards in Argentina by saying: "I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at this level. It's hard work and, you know, Jews don't like hard work." ("Julio's a monumental man!" says Sepp. "We are friends for ever.")

****ing hell

[PTP]

so blatter er wins

with 186 from 203 votes.....which is quite embarrassing considering there was no-one up against him

[Kenneth]

Congrats to jim boyce from northern Ireland who has just been appointed to the executive committee. This had nothing to do with the NI FA refusing to back the English FA proposal to delay the election. Nothing at all. Not even a little bit. Nothing.

[Exiled_red]

so blatter er wins

with 186 from 203 votes.....which is quite embarrassing considering there was no-one up against him

Another term for Blatter, Great

[Neil Young]

Another term for Blatter, Great

You're welcome to your opinion but I'd have thought a more appropriate term for Blatter would be 'corrupt tw*t'.




Oh wait, I see what you mean...

[RichC]

and it just keeps rolling on - this entire organisation just needs disbanding and replaced

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13653437.stm

Concacaf bans president Austin after Blazer 'sacking'

Concacaf has suspended its acting president Lisle Austin as the fallout from the Fifa corruption row continues.

Austin tried to sack Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer after his bribery claims against Fifa executives Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam.

But Concacaf said Austin did not have the authority to take this action.

It has suspended him from football duties effective from 2 June and asked Fifa to extend the ban to ensure it applies worldwide.

Austin, from Barbados, has been deputising for Warner after the Trinidadian's suspension by Fifa.

Concacaf, the continental governing body for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean, said on its website that vice-president Alfredo Hawit, from Honduras, would replace Austin as an interim measure.

"Lisle Austin has been provisionally banned from all football activities within Concacaf and at the national level by a majority of the Concacaf executive committee members for apparent infringement of the Concacaf statutes," a statement said.

Austin became embroiled in a public spat with Blazer following the American's claims that Warner and Bin Hammam had paid Caribbean delegates $40,000 (£24,250) each to vote for Bin Hammam in his failed bid for the Fifa presidency.

Both deny the allegations but they have been temporarily suspended by Fifa pending the outcome of a full inquiry.

Blazer subsequently reported Warner for breaching the terms of his suspension by urging Caribbean Football Union (CFU) members to vote for incumbent Sepp Blatter in last Wednesday's Fifa presidential elections.

This prompted Austin to describe Blazer's actions as "inexcusable and a gross misconduct of duty and judgement". He also said the American was no longer fit to hold the post.

Austin has until 13 June to appeal against the provisional ban, and will face a hearing on 13 July.

Blatter ended up standing as the only candidate in Fifa's presidential election and was duly re-elected for a fourth term, receiving 186 of the 203 votes cast.

[Leyton388]

It is going to take the clubs and the sponsors to take these ****ers down.

[RichC]

sponsors need to act to get rid of them - cut of the financial support unless there is an overhaul of FIFA, won't happen though

[Leyton388]

The only thing FIFA have is the world cup. If the sponsors **** them off they are ****ed but if the clubs want rid all they have to do is stop releasing their players for FIFA international games.

[RichC]

The only thing FIFA have is the world cup. If the sponsors **** them off they are ****ed but if the clubs want rid all they have to do is stop releasing their players for FIFA international games.

true but will open a huge ****ing can of worms in terms of legal proceedings - for me it's either the sponsors OR a group of top international sides clubbing together and demanding change - would take the likes of Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Argies and Brazil for this to carry any weight.

Something needs to change as they're corrupt as **** (as are many of the FA's around the world!)

In short it's a ****ing mess

[Neil Young]

And they're talking about getting Kissinger in. Like he's a force for good.

Based on his past record I imagine he'll fail to sort out FIFA while bombing nearby sporting bodies like the UCI and FIS and IOC back to the Stone Age.

[little dave hedgehog]

And they're talking about getting Kissinger in. Like he's a force for good.

Based on his past record I imagine he'll fail to sort out FIFA while bombing nearby sporting bodies like the UCI and FIS and IOC back to the Stone Age.

it's the silliest thing. i read it and did a double take. kissinger? do they mean henry kissinger? surely not, why would anyone with integrity issues publicly turn to kissinger and ask him to sort them out? man's as crooked as the day is long.

[RichC]

it's the silliest thing. i read it and did a double take. kissinger? do they mean henry kissinger? surely not, why would anyone with integrity issues publicly turn to kissinger and ask him to sort them out? man's as crooked as the day is long.

he fits in perfectly with FIFA's ethos then doesn't he!

Blatter and his cronies aren't going to put together a task force to expose them, it's going to be there to protect them!

[BillobShaisley]

Reminds me of the South Park episode with the catholic church trying to figure out what to do about the problem of people reporting the paedophilia.

[PTP]

Reminds me of the South Park episode with the catholic church trying to figure out what to do about the problem of people reporting the paedophilia.

"rabble rabble rabble rabble"