IGMetall ( massive Trade Union )has joined forces with Amnesty Internatiol for the first time in Germany. Cannot see Germany in Qatar - unless there are drastic changes in Qatar. German TV exposing working conditions in Qatar. Blatter and co have stolen international football rights and sold them on. Putin will have to tone down his war as well...if he wants Germany there..
It would actually be refreshing to see no European countries competing in tournament as a protest. The whole thing is a farce and once again it comes down to older wealthy men taking care of their self-interests.
The deaths in Qatar are shocking and the way in which they are brushed under the carpet says it all. Still, as long as some of the Fifa lot got paid who gives a fuck about migrants lured into a country and basically being kept as slaves.
The only people who can put an end to this farce are the sponsors just imagine pressure that Budweiser would put on FIFA if everybody started to boycott their drink, it looks like Visa are already starting to get more twitchy than the rest.
The only people who can put an end to this farce are the sponsors just imagine pressure that Budweiser would put on FIFA if everybody started to boycott their drink, it looks like Visa are already starting to get more twitchy than the rest.
If one of the major sponsors pulls the plug.. the rest will follow. It depends who's got the minerals to go first.
If one of the major sponsors pulls the plug.. the rest will follow. It depends who's got the minerals to go first.
Questions ....... on what grounds were FIFA (the body that governs above all the professional game) allowed to be a Charity? and to use that status to avoid paying tax?
The Germans as reigning champions might be reluctant to boycott, they would surely want to defend their title, although a world cup without them would be a complete embarrassment to Fifa.Well he's back in then. I hope UEFA is strong enough to withdraw it's members from the world cup unless something changes. It's the only way anything is going to change. We could have a 2nd European cup instead. FIFA would loose a shed load in sponsorship too of the back of that decision and that would be enough to force change.
The Germans as reigning champions might be reluctant to boycott, they would surely want to defend their title, although a world cup without them would be a complete embarrassment to Fifa.
It's a house of cards waiting to collapse. The most surreal thing is that Blatter himself continues to believe he is right to remain in office when all this corruption has gone on in the organisation he heads. Any other person holding such public office would be forced to resign but here we have the 'bribery' of the Asia and African continents giving backing even though they too must surely understand the difference between right and wrong. Blatter is the most brazen character I can ever recall.
I think it's high time we took back football, brought it home to England and form a new confederation. FIFA should be finished. To do that a boycott by some of the best footballing nations on the planet (Germany, England, Brazil, Holland etc) and an alternative tournament offered would see that house of cards fall for good.
See, your last paragraph is why England and the F.A are despised the world over in football circles. You mention England as one of the best footballing nations on the planet. They aren't. Plenty of other teams you could have mentioned, Italy or Argentina for example.
It's the sense of entitlement from the English and europe that keeps the African nations voting for blatter.
Ha ha. You really are naive if you believe that's the reason the Africans keep voting for Blatter. I was reading somewhere (can't remember where now) before the arrests were made about the amount of money going from FIFA during Blatters time to African FA's for football development at grass roots and how much of that money actually reaches grass roots. It wasn't a very large percentage.
Naïve? no. I just understand how it works.
On this thread you said the swiss wouldn't raid fifa hq any time soon. You do know you said that a day after they had raided it, don't you.
As for Africa, it has nothing to do with the amount of money going to grass roots.
When did I say the Swiss wouldn't raid FIFA HQ? You are right though when you say it's nothing to do with the amount of money going into grass routes. It's probably more to do with the amount of money not going into grass routes. Allegedly. Might have been on the BBC web site I was reading it on. I'll have a look when I'm on a PC.
LMmmm :thinking about: So don't go expecting the Swiss police to raid FIFA HQ anytime soon because it ain't going to happen ever, regardless of what the FBI find by the sounds of it.
See, your last paragraph is why England and the F.A are despised the world over in football circles. You mention England as one of the best footballing nations on the planet. They aren't. Plenty of other teams you could have mentioned, Italy or Argentina for example.
It's the sense of entitlement from the English and europe that keeps the African nations voting for blatter.
Holland has a population of 17,000,000 whilst Argentina's is 41,000,000 I think that makes this a loaded questionYou think holland have more support than argentina?
if we are talking popular the surely nigeria have more support than england. Why can't we base the new fifa there.
For me it's about heritage nothing to do with entitlement. Qatar has no football heritage and was a decision that focused attention on the workings of fifa, a decision that I believe will be seen as a massive own goal by an organisation without true leadership.You don't say.
so its not about support or what each team has won. It's about england being the home of football. Therefore a sense of entitlement.
For me it's about heritage nothing to do with entitlement. Qatar has no football heritage and was a decision that focused attention on the workings of fifa, a decision that I believe will be seen as a massive own goal by an organisation without true leadership.
I agree with this, England should not be at the head of some new body, it would look like a case of it's my ball and I'm going home. I do however believe that heritage is very important and that is why Qatar is such a poor decision, spread the game by all means but the right to host a world cup should be earned not bought, this is why Blatter should have been removed, a strong leader would have stopped this but I suspect he is actually too thick to see how he has been played by the very people who give him powerI do not disagree. I have already pointed out that blatter didn't vote for qatar. The majority of Uefa did. Who did our representatives vote for? To say england should take over the running of a new organisation is madness. Look how we have allowed the premier league and the G14 to take over football Here.
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