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FIFA Presidential Election.
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 27, 2011
Well with both Sepp Blatter and Bin Hamann under investigation by FIFA for alleged corruption it seems like we might have the farcical situation of an election for the FIFA president happening still in a couple of days.
Is this is IOC Atlanta moment for FIFA? Will it be reformed? Can it be reformed?
Any thoughts?
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FIFA Presidential Election.
Effers;England. Posted May 27, 2011
Simples. I hope we pull out of FIFA.
FIFA Presidential Election.
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 27, 2011
I don't know about the practicalities of doing that. Unless UEFA were collectively doing it I suspect it would be impossible for an individual European nation to do this without being suspended from all world football.
No way our top clubs would agree to not being allowed into the Champions League and lets be honest the Premier League wears the trousers at the FA.
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FIFA Presidential Election.
MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go Posted May 27, 2011
Apparently, George Davis is innocent, so I vote for him.
FIFA Presidential Election.
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 27, 2011
Blimey missed that.
Must have been juicy! 
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FIFA Presidential Election.
highamexpat Posted May 27, 2011
Hey I live in Trinidad. Corruption is just a way of life here unfortunately.
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Effers;England. Posted May 27, 2011
I'm unsubbing. Not that I want to but its clearly utterly pointless for me to be able to post anything that doesn't get censored, however careful and vague I am.
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Effers;England. Posted May 27, 2011
I've almost a mind to send copies of my posts to the Daily Mail to show how the BBC now treats Licence Fee payers on discussion boards.
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tarantoes Posted May 30, 2011
Hmmm things appear to be warming up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13592684.stm
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Effers;England. Posted May 30, 2011
I'll try again 
I'm amazed that they were so daft not to know that if England didn't get 2018, a firestorm of blowing the whole thing open was going to happen.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted May 30, 2011
Listening to the reporting earlier today, the whole thing struck me as just an extraordinarily dirty election. All the 'revelations' seem to have been in the context of mud-slinging campaign tactics. Now, the only question that remains is whether Bin Hammam can kick up enough dirt to prevent the election from happening, and thus prevent Blatter from winning, for now.
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Effers;England. Posted May 30, 2011
Australia or the US not getting 2022..but instead a fairly uninhabited desert region, with oven temperatures during summer, didn't do any favours either.
I say go for the kill.
Blatter = Clown
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 30, 2011
Just watched Blatter's press conference. Words just fail me.....
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Blatter = Clown
swl Posted May 30, 2011
Bizarre! Either blissfully unaware of this issue's seriousness or so utterly convinced he can't be touched that he's enjoying it.
Blatter = Clown
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 30, 2011
Odd isn't it. An interesting tidbit I read on the subject is that part of FIFA's deal to be based in Switzerland is that they are given a specific exemption from Switzerland's anti corruption laws.
That is just mental.
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Blatter = Clown
Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master Posted May 30, 2011
Hmmmm.... I have appealed the last post being hidden.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/nov/25/swiss-investigate-fifa-world-cup
It was because I posted something in relation to this.
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FIFA Presidential Election.
- 1: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 27, 2011)
- 2: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 27, 2011)
- 3: Effers;England. (May 27, 2011)
- 4: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 27, 2011)
- 5: MonkeyS- all revved up with no place to go (May 27, 2011)
- 6: Effers;England. (May 27, 2011)
- 7: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 27, 2011)
- 8: highamexpat (May 27, 2011)
- 9: Effers;England. (May 27, 2011)
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- 11: Effers;England. (May 27, 2011)
- 12: tarantoes (May 30, 2011)
- 13: Effers;England. (May 30, 2011)
- 14: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (May 30, 2011)
- 15: Effers;England. (May 30, 2011)
- 16: Ferrettbadger. The Renegade Master (May 30, 2011)
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