Kaizero

Think UEFA will threaten to pull out of the WC now. They'll never do it, but no doubt they'll pretend to.

Yes Absolute disgrace. Why? The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game. You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society. Votes should count after their own FIFA ranking tbh. 1-10 get so so many votes. 11-20 so so many and so on. Or weighted based on the number of clubs presided over by that particular FA. That way it's not really dependent on the results, just the size of the FA.

Yes Absolute disgrace. Why? The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game. You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society. Votes should count after their own FIFA ranking tbh. 1-10 get so so many votes. 11-20 so so many and so on.

Most FA's want him to stay, he will win comfortably tomorrow, even a fair amount of Europeans will vote for him. This is the problem, I think this goes way beyond FIFA, Blatter, and a few of his mates. The FBI will make their arrests but after that it is up to the big European nations to be bullies and force change, make everyone else get in line, even if that means fucking up the next 2 world cups for everyone. Prince Ali currently has 90 votes apparently. Needs 105.

Think it might be Karen Espelund Agreed.

Just the emotion of scoring the 2 goals probably? He's done well like. Nah not the crying. It was him kicking off in the tunnel, no? Just went for his flag, no?

What sort of things specifically are you curious about? For instance how serious are they to push for real punishment? I would guess very serious. The Obama administration in general has been pretty hawkish on foreign entities engaging in corrupt practices on US soil/in connection with the US market. The amount of time and effort DOJ have put into this case indicate that they're out for blood. The indictment states that each of these guys could face 20 years+ on some combination of RICO charges, money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and bribery (with bonus points for criminal conspiracy.) Just based off what I've seen, that level of sentencing don't seem outlandish at all if they don't cooperate. Realistically, most will probably work out some kind of plea deal in which they agree not to defend themselves and also provide information in exchange for less serious charges. This is why I'm holding out some hope that the US authorities will work their way even higher up the FIFA totem pole. The one wrinkle in this is probably extradition. I'm not aware of where these people are at the moment and how many of them are already in American hands. Depending on where they're holed up and what sort of treaty the US has with those countries extradition may take a significant amount of time. Most were arrested in Switzerland, who have a very open extradition agreement with the US. I read somewhere that they're probably already shipped to America by now.

Or you read it and then posted the same thing to look intelligent… fwiw I've ran the same arugment multiple times on here for years.

Or what B-more said. I really should finish reading threads.

How can they still call it soccer, they are investigating the Fédération Internationale de Football Association FFS Unless it's called FISA now It's annoying like, and also make zero sense. This is called "Football": http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/090926-Saint-Olaf-vs-Augsburg-American-Football.jpg/1280px-090926-Saint-Olaf-vs-Augsburg-American-Football.jpg Whereas this is called Soccer: http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/01_2015/messi-getty0601-630.jpg Damn Yanks You salty ungrateful rat motherfuckers. :lol: Ya know I love ya really Mike Seriously though, how does that make sense. Makes perfect sense- playing football with your hand in a cricket helmet, using a Rugby ball Football was originally called soccer in Britain, after "Assoc" in "Association Football". Then, to differ between names, eventually the word "Football" took over. When "Soccer" was introduced in America, the sport was still called soccer, as well as the Americans already having their own football.

That is fucking outstanding. The complete randomness of the players makes it. Lost it at "all of the Coles"

I feel like I jinxed the shit out of myself right there.

Stabæk up by two

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I had emotions watching NUFC. First time in what feels like years.

JONAS

He should've just fucking shot. Keeper obviously expecting the pass, as would anyone else that've played FIFA.

Wat

I hate Riviere so much.

JC post match: "That goal was for Mike."

50% of their countries qualify tbf. However if they hand it to Europe it's bullshit.

Think he's been ok so far. One of our better performers. Basically the only one looking like giving a shit (bar Jonas) right now.

#wait