FTK,

I agree with all you say. FIFA is, on this and previous evidence, a corrupt organisation.

As an example of the overblown self importance of the organisation, even when meeting Heads of State, Blatter demands to be addressed as Mr. President.

He is not a Head of Government he runs an organisation responsible for game.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Panorama programme its broadcast, on the eve of the vote, probably ensures that I will not be around long enough to see a World Cup Final held in England again.

Poor J.I.N

DON’T GIVE UP HOPE!

I happen to believe that the reverse psychology will apply and that the bid will be successful precisely because the individuals do not want to attract attention for voting in a manner that is seen as retaliation…

T.O.T.I.— Tip Of the Iceberg! Full points to BBC and panorama for publishing what we already knew about FIFA. Full points to the Sunday Times for exposing the corruption of some of the current voting members. But alas it is just toti. the level and degree of FIFA’s corruption will not be fully understood nor exposed for many many years. And in my mind the heart and soul of this corruption, the figurehead of it and who’s very existence as it’s president is demonstrated in Sepp Blatter and his “rise to power” which has been on the backs of this padded, slip you a little something under the table method of doing business.

And why does it happen and continue to happen? probably because FIFA and its associations of domestic football is a cash cow. A part of every schoolboy fee and their club pay money to the national association who then forks a bit over to FIFA and then the national associations immediately have their hand out to host tournaments and all manner and import up to the golden cash cow of hosting the world cup.

And there sits FIFA in their self glorified ultra national and untouchable station located at ground zero Zurich into who’s banks dribs and drabs of money can fall to this member of the committee or that member.

I would bet,if asked, that the 2 members recently tainted with the dodgy brush would argue that the “payments” were not for them but for “projects” within their national areas and were for the good of football not themselves and that these allegations are completely unfair and unfounded and they are being punished for their altruism. Right, pull the other one.

But it symbolizes the FIFA way and with that being said there is no better place for them to stage the 2018 World Cup than in Russia where corruption runs rampant and they can get away with payoffs, kickbacks and all other means of gladhanding for another decade.

I said ultra national I meant extra-national, i.e., beyond national control of any particular country.

And upon what basis could FIFA be regulated? The United Nations and the OECD through their corporate governance requirements is a start. From Wikipedia–

One of the most influential guidelines has been the 1999 OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. This was revised in 2004. The OECD remains a proponent of corporate governance principles throughout the world.

Building on the work of the OECD, other international organisations, private sector associations and more than 20 national corporate governance codes, the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) has produced voluntary Guidance on Good Practices in Corporate Governance Disclosure. This internationally agreed[24] benchmark consists of more than fifty distinct disclosure items across five broad categories:[25]

* Auditing
* Board and management structure and process
* Corporate responsibility and compliance
* Financial transparency and information disclosure
* Ownership structure and exercise of control rights

The sad things is it has been obvious for over a decade exactly how corrupt FIFA is but there is very little that can be done about it. It has been in the courts but fell through on loophole and they carry on as though nothing happened.

And by the way, the journalist’s name is Andrew Jennings not Phillips.

@Goonamerica
very comphrehensive comment my good friend.

The principles that you expound are clearly defined but what about enforcement?

What sanctions could UEFA bring to bear? as we are effectively bankrolling this corrupt organisation through the success of our leagues.

the best players in the World play in UEFA, so we should be able to call the shots surely?

Lets teach the Associations how powerful the supporter is. Lets all boycott a week of football and get the Associations to change to elected bodies answerable to the clubs and 50 supporters from each club.
We can decide a particular week and publish our ideas to all supporters. The Internet is powerful.

England.., acknowledged by FIFA themselves as having the strongest bid, receieve just 2 votes out of a possible 22 and are eliminated in the first round of voting.

Sources say that the bid suffered because of the English press uncovering corruption at the very heart of the organisation that has a stranglehold on the world game, FIFA.
FIFA show what they think of a free press corp by awarding the 2018 and 2022 world cups to Russia and Qatar, the later being an absolute monarchy and the former a country whereby speaking freely in the press comes with the very real threat of ending up with a bullet through the the brain!

FIFA, its leader, his cronies, the whole stinking organisation needs to be torn down and built again. The place is a stinking, putrid and corrupt to the core old boys club. It serves no benefit other than to afford Sepp and his gang the chance to gorge themselves like fat pigs from the trough.

Its run without proper scutiny, whereby decisions are taken in the dark and are beyond reproach. Corruption is swept under the carpet and allowed to breed into a puss ridden epidemic.

And when its exposed, our bid team is punished for that…, what kind of crazy world are we living in when that notion is met with silence? When there isnt a groundswell of outrage at that?

And to think, we spent millions wining and dining these fat pigs. Smooczhing up to them. Our bid team excusing their crimes. And for what?

For the good of the game.., they say. Seems to me that the only people who benefit are the friends of Sepp Blatter.

My god.., what a rant. !!