FIFA

Heres the Link to the US indicments

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nine-fifa-...piracy-and

Let's not get distracted from the real issues!

We're currently investigating the connectivity issues affecting #FIFA15. Sorry for the inconvenience.

— EA SPORTS FIFA (@EASPORTSFIFA) May 27, 2015

https://twitter.com/EASPORTSFIFA/status/...9564225536

At thought I bet Uncle Jim Whtie & Uncle Jeff Stelling will have something to say about it!!

The strange contradiction with all of this is that it probably strengthens Blatter's bid for the presidency.

So far, most of the arrests have centred around Concacaf. But Blatter's power base has always been the Asian and African federations. They keep Blatter in power and he turns a blind eye to corruption. That was the deal.

If the Americans are now issuing indictments and making arrests, they will just be that much more determined to keep him in power. They've gotta keep those bodies buried, after all.

Just a (cynical) theory...

(27-05-2015 18:04 )FormallyInfernal Wrote:  UEFA to the rescue! Either that or they're gambling that this is the moment that FIFA's current hierarchy is going to fall far and fast enough for anybody to be able to stick the boot in! Either way, they're calling for Friday's election to be called off thanks to how deeply disturbing this all is...

If UEFA were going to come to the rescue they would have threatened to leave FIFA by now. Just calling for the election to be called off isn't going to make much difference..

I think if UEFA threatened to boycott the World Cup in 2018 and 2022 not many other countries would come with us as I think many would say that UEFA would be having too much power.
But the World Cup has now been entirely tarnished forever by all this but I don't think it would make any countries changing their minds (if the vote was to still go ahead) for Blatter, But the Justice Department
has stated that Blatter was their main target.
I cannot see FIFA lasting much longer and being able to repair trust.

UEFA will only threaten that if the sponsors threaten to pull out. good peice on CNN about the sponsors they wont want the US goverment poking into there deals with fifa either

Doubt Sony could do with another lot of bad press because of all the hacking and release of senstive information as well as the whole interview North Korea thing


Actually Nike are already embroiled in it cos one of the charges is about bribe paid for the brazilian national side and the Nike Deal in the 90's

I can see a lot of Nike shirt burning happening soon!!

What would be a positive move is if the ordinary fan in the street started boycotting FIFA sponsors. That would concentrate the sponsors' minds.

(27-05-2015 13:05 )circles_o_o_o Wrote:  The FIFA director of communications says "Today for us is good."

If yesterday was a good day for FIFA then I wonder what a bad day would be like?