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"If the best manager in the league (John Carver) can't turn it around. What chance has PV got ? " We're such a joke.

My mental picture of you is now eyes dead locked on your phone with celebrations going on around you and you whimpering out a short "yay" every now and then with all your attention on N-O.

We know things about Vieira, though. He's achieved things with the City youth and he's basically single-handedly made Diembars a Senegalse powerhouse through the way they have been developing their youth. This as well as having been used to provide advice/schemes for various clubs, such as Tromsø, in regards to their youth development, which in turn has made Tromsø the go-to club in Norway with regards to talentful youth - as if by some bizarre coincidence. Also aided the Strømsgodset youth set-up a few years back as part of their feeder agreement with City, now they as well produce talentful youth after years of being shit at it.

Nah. Given the realistic alternatives (that Charnley and Ashley might actually appoint) of Brucey and McLaren, an unknown quantity breeds some amount of excitement. He's unproven, and based on that he'll probably fail at a PL club. But the fact we don't know what he'll bring, and that he's done some ok things with the Man City youth and his establishment of Diembars, as well as his invoolvement at Tromsø IL in Norway and such makes me quite excited. Obviously would rather have the likes of Garde and Jemez, but Vieira instead of McLaren? Yes. Every day. You're presenting the scenario that Bruce or McClaren are the only alternatives when they're obviously not, they're enforced alternatives, which is why someone like Vieira isn't anything to get excited about when the club could and absolutely should be making appointments based on actual merit. I'm not opposed to Vieira as manager though, at all. I find it a refreshing option and given what I know of his work I'd under normal circumstances, albeit he's never managed a top side, be excited we're the team giving him the chance. We'll never give him the tools to succeed though, which is a shame. But yes, I don't think it's a bad appointment at all. I'd rather have Jemez, Garde and such, but I'm not at all displeased if we get Vieira.

Nah. Given the realistic alternatives (that Charnley and Ashley might actually appoint) of Brucey and McLaren, an unknown quantity breeds some amount of excitement. He's unproven, and based on that he'll probably fail at a PL club. But the fact we don't know what he'll bring, and that he's done some ok things with the Man City youth and his establishment of Diembars, as well as his invoolvement at Tromsø IL in Norway and such makes me quite excited. Obviously would rather have the likes of Garde and Jemez, but Vieira instead of McLaren? Yes. Every day.

Because he's not Carver or McClaren. He could genuinely be worse than both of them. There is no evidence he offers anything. He's not them though. Which means it'll be exciting to find out he's shit.

As usual, your gifs make absolutely no sense. It symbolises the internal emotions I'm going through. Mild enjoyment amongs the feelings of nothingness. That's basically the only one I've posted that actually made sense within the context of a thread.

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Free access to the players at Diambars as well. #guesswhowinsagain

Based on the fact Viera is unproven, I could get excited for a few matches watching what he brings to the table. More entertaning than slowly watching McLaren do a Pards.

Michel Platini would be so much better than Blatter as president of the governing body A new president, any president, no matter how corrupt pre-presidency, would pretty much be forced to give more transparancy. It's basically "anyone but Blatter", then football might get a teeny tiny bit better. Not in any way healed, but better.

I feel like Jack Warner is very liable to turn on Blatter to save his own ass tbh.

"I got the vote of 133 nations, but I am the president of them all." Re: UEFA "I can forgive, but I never forget." Blatter is such an odious cunt, man. UEFA better fucking pull out of that viper's nest of corruption.

Only keeping him for the comp tbh.

weapons grade horseshit I repeat, this is the terriblest idea ever. Europe would immediately cut all funds for football development projects in Africa/Asia. What's the point of making them better when that just means they'll get more votes. There's no reason to assume that. There's no reason to assume that funding for football development even needs to voted on. If you're building something from scratch there's no reason why you couldn't write something on division of funds into a founding charter or similar. It's just a massive assumption you're making. If you're trying to level the field in FIFA there's no reason why you couldn't make those sort of arrangements too. Of course you could implement revenue-sharing or other equalizing measures prior to giving them more votes, but in a hypothetical environment that is sufficiently pro-UEFA to institutionalize weighted voting for these countries, how would those unamendable revenue-sharing measures pass in the first place? Also, from a purely normative perspective, why must Africa and Asia be reliant on the goodwill of the UEFA countries to represent their interests? We don't deserve an equal voice just because we're shit at football? Africa is now providing the top European leagues with a significant portion of their star players and Asia is providing a significant portion of their fans. We're all part of this enterprise and have no interest in being relegated to junior partner status just because other parts of the world happened to start kicking balls earlier than we did. My main issue is that the fucking Cayman Isles have the same say as South Korea. In no way should the Cayman Isles have as much a say in world football as South Korea, or other "big" FAs. Will the Cayman Isles ever get close to qualifying for a World Cup? If doing the FIFA ranking thing, one could simply take the top five from each association in the FIFA rankings and give their votes the same power, then take six-ten from the FIFA rankings and so on until you can no longer choose an equal amount from each association. After that you'd just go with the vote counting equally among the remaining nations. That way each association will still have an equal amount of say at the same time as making vote buying a bit harder.

Pretty much my dad's favourite player, so naturally he's not too happy with this news. I'm not that happy either, no longer good enough for our starting 11 but why shouldn't we have a squad? I mean, it was thin enough as is, now it's even thinner. Thanks for everything Jonas

A better voting system would sort out a lot of the corruption issues tbh. As well as full transparency, which they should have as they are a non-profit. It's actually quite easy. Not saying all corruption would be gone. But compared to the current FIFA with shit voting system and no transparency whatsoever... I mean, yeah... What would be your proposed voting system? As discussed earlier, weighted voting tied to either FIFA ranking or the amount of clubs precided over by an FA.

A better voting system would sort out a lot of the corruption issues tbh. As well as full transparency, which they should have as they are a non-profit. It's actually quite easy. Not saying all corruption would be gone. But compared to the current FIFA with shit voting system and no transparency whatsoever... I mean, yeah...

Blatter would see FIFA burn if he could be king of the ashes.

As a power play it makes perfect sense. The sponsors bring the money. The big nations bring the sponsors. Pull the big names out, and the sponsors pull out. This leads to the "lesser "nations that are dependent on said money to start sweating, which could hurry up the removal of Blatter. Basically. If UEFA and CONMEBOL pull out, FIFA will be dead in the water. They will still have most of the countries in the world, but no sponsor would give their WC any money. That said I also think it would probably never happen. But if there was a time for them to flex muscles, it's now.

Nobody's saying UEFA isn't corrupt as well. But it's comparing a 747 filled with corrpution to a Cessna filled with corruption.

According to Karen Espelund that's a possibility. USA, UEFA and Invitees. The "Big" South American countries apparently voted against Blatter as well.

Karen Espelund (UEFA Executive Committee) says there will be meetings in UEFA next weekend in Berlin and that it's very probable UEFA will react "heavily" to this. Says Spain and Russia do not share the view of the rest of UEFA, but that UEFA is a democracy. Says UEFA's view is that Blatter is responsible for the corruption in FIFA as he is the boss, and there is no reason why he should not step aside. English FA representative have turned down a role for FIFA. "You can see that Blatter is moved. However how much of that is acting, I can't say. He says he'll change FIFA, but he's been saying that for 17 years and now FIFA have never been in a worse position." Interviewer: "So a World Cup without UEFA teams can be a possibility?" Espelund: "It is a big possibility. We need to show our muscles." Possibility of a UEFA + USA + Invitees replacement tournament.