FIFA Corruption Thread

[Shaggy]

Joke press conference that, like Comical Ali.

Sounds like they're all gonna plead guilty.

[Mike]

Good. Finally.

Any chance of the 2022 venue being overturned?

Listening to the press conference now; they are saying Russia and Qatar will remain in place.

[Roboklopp]

Good. Finally.

Any chance of the 2022 venue being overturned?

[Alex]

[ame]https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/603459392747495424[/ame]

[Alex]

[ame]https://twitter.com/AndrewDasNYT/status/603452180419457025[/ame]

Jeffery Webb is the Fifa Vice President. Supposedly Blatters pick to succeed him.

[spud_gun]

Obviously not giving 2018 to the Yanks was a big mistake on FIFAs part.

[Darkon]

I would hardly be surprised if at this point Blatter thinks he has judicial immunity from being elected president.

[RichC]

Interesting timing of it all, 2 days before the "election".

[Reece]

I merged the new thread with this one.

Good news this

[Venton]

This should be fun, the arrests look fairly genteel but the yanks will probably orange jumpsuit them as soon as they get over there.

US Fifa investigations and arrests with trials about bidding processes for a world cup in Russia, amongst other things. Who'd have thunk it?!

[Venton]

Yet.

[RichC]

Unfortunately Blatter isn't thought to be one of them.

[EwarWoo]

[DeanoUK]

I also posted in original Fifa corruption thread http://www.est1892.co.uk/forums/show...t=86066&page=6

Lets hope some **** hits the fan

[DeanoUK]

Breaking news. Lets hope they get screwed.

"FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sports/soccer/fifa-officials-face-corruption-charges-in-us.html?hp=&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&smid%3D=tw-nytsports

The charges allege widespread corruption in FIFA over the past two decades, involving bids for World Cups as well as marketing and broadcast deals, according to three law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the case. The charges include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering, and officials said they targeted members of FIFA’s powerful executive committee, which wields enormous power and does its business largely in secret.

Any hope of tying in charges for manslaughter? I wish.

http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-news/london-2012-olympics/this-graph-shows-the-sickening-extent-of-the-qatar-world-cup-deaths/8120.article