FIFA Corruption Thread

[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?!

[Reece]

I merged the new thread with this one.

Good news this

[RichC]

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

[Darkon]

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

[spud_gun]

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

[Alex]

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

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

[Alex]

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

[Roboklopp]

Good. Finally.

Any chance of the 2022 venue being overturned?

[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.

[Shaggy]

Joke press conference that, like Comical Ali.

Sounds like they're all gonna plead guilty.

[dom9]

Presumably they won't be able to vote on Friday, which may hinder Blatter's chances a little maybe.

[Alex]

[ame]https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/603497660251791360[/ame]

[Kenneth]

If this isn't the prompt for tearing down the whole dirty organisation and starting again then nothing will be. And it won't be.

[Kenneth]

As well as the arrests, Fifa head office in Zurich has also been raided and electronic data and documents seized.

[baitman]

money in the caymans, bodies in the concrete foundations and in shallow graves in the desert. its like goodfellas