World Cup 2014

[dom9]

Urga

[Kenneth]

**** Urga and everything they stand for.

[baitman]

so there will be no beer, gays, anyone with an israeli passport... whats next

[RedAndWhite]

so there will be no beer, gays, anyone with an israeli passport... whats next

Anybody with a family as A) Schools in and B) too close to Christmas.

[Mattshark]

So what happens if Israel qualify for 2022?

[baitman]

So what happens if Israel qualify for 2022?

blatter has probably made some sort of contingency just in case. maybe he'll have spent all his bung and be dead by then so he wont give a ****.

[Alex]

Nothing to say each countries FA cant leave Fifa and set up its own governing body is there?

[Leyton388]

So what happens if Israel qualify for 2022?

FIFA will make sure that doesn't happen.

[Norbs]

The World Cup 2014 winning team:

------------------Hart

Johnson--Jagielka--Dawson--Baines

----Barkley---Gerrard-----Wiltshire

----------------Rooney

------Townsend----------Sturridge

Can't lose with a whole county playing for us

[Norbs]

So what happens if Israel qualify for 2022?

The warm balls in their draw will be Spain, Germany, Italy and Netherlands

[Fivex]

Of course they're corrupt, that goes without saying, but the national associations are either up to their necks in it also, or reliant on the money for their upkeep too. In reality, what right do FIFA or even UEFA have to control the domestic games of member countries via nation FAs?

Regarding beer, it's part of our football culture but that doesn't mean it has to be part of world and World Cup football culture. They chose Qatar, laws and all, and if they do make an exception for World Cup games and serve alcohol then that is a shame imo. The World Cup had just become a sponsorship machine and anything to challenges that is a good thing.

[paulg]

The only way FIFA would change, and the FA come to that, is if the whole tournament was boycotted by fans and no one bought tickets in protest. Trouble is I'm sure a massive percentage are corporate or sponsor tickets so FIFA would still get the money and fob off the media attention.

In fact UEFA could tell FIFA to stick the 2022 changes up their arse and say that they aren't moving any of their domestic leagues to accomodate. If FIFA don't like it UEFA could say we'll withdraw all of our member teams and the winners of over 50% of all the previous World Cups won't take part. But there is more chance of Beyonce knocking on my door and declaring eternal, undying love for me than that ever happening.

[Kenneth]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/24/qatar-2022-world-cup-185-nepalese-workers-died-2013

Shocking stats of the number of workers killed as part of the Qatar preparations. How many hundreds of people will die so that FIFA can make sponsorship money.

[RichC]

Oh dear

Over 100 arrested in Brazil as anti-World Cup protesters clash with police



Sao Paulo demonstration billed as the year’s first action against the summer tournament ended in tear gas and rubber bullets after cars were torched and bank windows smashed

Over 100 people were arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, during a protest against this summer’s World Cup which will be hosted in the country.

Around 2,500 people took to the streets on Saturday for the demonstration which ended in clashes with police late in the night.

In some of the most dramatic scenes, a family were rescued from a burning car which caught on fire after a man reportedly attempted to drive over a blazing barricade started by protesters on a road.

Demonstrators gathered in front of the Sao Paulo Art Museum for about one hour before heading out to another part of the city chanting slogans against the tournament. Several chanted “If we have no rights, there will be no Cup.”

Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd, after some anarchist demonstrators wrecked an empty police car, attempting to overturn it, while others smashed the windows of banks and started fires.

Officials were forced to cancel some festivities planned for the city's 460th anniversary following the unrest.

On its Facebook page, the Anonymous Rio protest group billed “Operation Stop the World Cup” as this year's first action against the football tournament.



“By rights we mean the people's right to decent public services,” said university student Leonardo Pelegrini dos Santos.

“We are against the millions and millions of dollars being spent for the Cup. It is money that should be invested in better health and education services and better transportation and housing.”

Fellow student Juliana Turno said: “This is a small sample of the protests that will happen when the World Cup begins.”

Demonstrations were planned for more than 30 cities, but turnout was small in all but Sao Paulo.

In Rio de Janeiro, about 50 protesters gathered in front of the Copacabana Palace hotel, holding anti World Cup placards. The crowd later moved onto a street that runs along Copacabana beach, halting traffic as police watched from the side.

Last year, millions of people demonstrated across Brazil complaining of spending on the World Cup despite heightening bus fares, poor public services and corruption.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/over-100-arrested-in-brazil-as-antiworld-cup-protesters-clash-with-police-9086012.html

[Bender]

If you asked Sepp'Corrupt'Blatter about that he'd say it was a wonderful carnival atmospehre.....
terrible what's going on in Brazil and no doubt more to come as The World Cup approaches