To be honest with you Posh - I think they are. Money talks and obviously with their two choices their more money based than England - so I'm presuming their bank accounts were padded prior to the voting. It's a shame, but it's probably true.

Funny really. I read this post as

"is the Pope catholic?"

haha! When of course it really says

"do bears s***t in the woods?"

I'd put money on it!!!

Anyone still undecided, should read this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1335212/Martin-Samuel-FIFA-rotten-core-England-better-it.html

I watched the Panorama special that investigated bribes paid to 3 senior executives in FIFA.


Really disgusted me how they deal with this kind of thing.


There needs to be an investigation into FIFA, this is beyond a joke now

an investigation by who? They don't answer to anyone, other than the countries they 'serve'. They've got Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe all sewn up. I expect Japan, Korea and China are still grateful for 2002, so that just leaves the original powerbase of South America and Europe.

Its us against the world!!

I was reading and interesting article about this sort of thing earlier

Andy Anson Calls For FIFA Reform

That's an interesting article you've posted Deeb - am more than sure that theres bribery going on, and the sooner theirs elections, the sooner it might be cut out. Although, that is very doubtful!

My perspective on FIFA came after reading the book the Ball is Round by David Goldblatt... there are a lot of anecdotes about how corrupt FIFA has been for decades.

I think there must be, even people inside of fifa are leaving there posts now. Even Franz Beckenbauer is stepping down.

FIFA is most definitely corrupt, a bit of cash waves in front of their fat noses and they go off on the trail!

Some things NEED to be changed

I should be in charge

Haha I agree Niko, you'd be perfect with your UFM running experience plus the fact you're not tempted by bribes

Nik - you couldn't manage a body as powerful as FIFA , you wouldn't have a clue what to do, .

I think there's a lot of people resigning from the governing body due to the fact that they disagree with the way Sepp Blatter is running things, and with the influence from powerful and stinking rich countries, (Eg, Qatar and Russia)

:O Pringers once i was in charge and earning as much as Sepp does i could then employee people to do the job for me and i'll just make changes where i see fit