Holy Crap!!! Blatter Resigns (FIFA Corruption thread)

this morning on NPR, the reporter said that Jack Warner received a $10m bribe from South Africa's government to secure their holding the WC. The South African government confirmed the $10m, but said it was NOT a bribe.

Somewhere in writer heaven, "George Orwell is being struck by multiple orgasms."

 

Yeah, it was a small, charitable "donation" to the "Jack Warner Housing Assistance Fund."

 

Took a bit longer than I thought, but:

http://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-suspended-by-fifa-100815

Please, please Mr. Oliver, do another FIFA skit.

90 DAY suspension? Umm, shouldn't they just can the two?

 

I was talking 1984 rather than Animal Farm. But, yes anyhow.

 

I still can't believe they're still having indentured servants/slaves build stadiums in Qatar. Can we organize a world boycott for this nonsense?

And we can blame the French for another sports corruption scandal? Oh what joy.

 

I still think we have a lot of gall to bitch about the 2022 series. There's plenty of evidence available to show that the US and England colluded in the early rounds. There was a "gentleman's agreement" for the US to drop out of the running for 2018 and England for 2022. That way each could support the other's bid and both countries would win.

Face it, there was corruption everywhere, and Platini and Blatter going away will never stop it.

 

@HatterDon, everyone should be bitching about Qatar. There are migrant workers being held captive in that country to build stadiums, and forced to live in piss poor conditions. The only way they seem to be able to go back to their home country is in a coffin. Again, why is there not a global boycott going?

 

This has been going on in the various Emirates for almost a generation -- 25 years -- and has been documented. Nobody in power really cares about how working people are treated -- certainly not in this country where we bash unions and ridicule and repeal workplace safety regulations.

If we suddenly discovered the plight of the workers because we lost a chance to host a World Cup, that would take even more gall.

 

Unfortunately, abusing the poor IS the global standard.

 

Now Matthew, you do know the difference between global and national.

 

Yeah, sorry about the wiseass comment. My point was that the treatment of "guest workers" in Qatar has been the way things have been done in that region for years. Protesting about it in the context of the US losing a chance to host the World Cup and ignoring it in other contexts is what gets me going.