mrmojorisin75 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 is there some way FIFA could just break down and be split up, do they answer to anyone? they're making such a fucking horrible mess of everything man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 FIFA are an awful organisation like. The whole Qatar World Cup stinks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 FIFA are an awful organisation like. The whole Qatar World Cup stinks. Are there many other sports organisations as corrupt at FIFA? Boxing, UCI can't think of any others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Every major FA should just tell them to fuck off to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Every major FA should just tell them to fuck off to be honest. every major FA is as corrupt as FIFA or just plain incompetent. The entire structure of football is corrupt beyond redemption and needs to be removed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jtm_92 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Every major FA should just tell them to f*** off to be honest. every major FA is as corrupt as FIFA or just plain incompetent. The entire structure of football is corrupt beyond redemption and needs to be removed. Slightly off topic, but the fa needs to seriously increase spending/development on grass-roots football and also the fact that artificial pitches are banned is a joke, hampers the teams with hardly any money/non-league teams who cannot afford to re lay the pitch but when the weather is shit in the winter, the artificial pitch is still playable so it has it's advantages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucaAltieri Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Every major FA should just tell them to f*** off to be honest. every major FA is as corrupt as FIFA or just plain incompetent. The entire structure of football is corrupt beyond redemption and needs to be removed. Slightly off topic, but the fa needs to seriously increase spending/development on grass-roots football and also the fact that artificial pitches are banned is a joke, hampers the teams with hardly any money/non-league teams who cannot afford to re lay the pitch but when the weather is shit in the winter, the artificial pitch is still playable so it has it's advantages. Agreed. I've been playing on artificial pitches since coming to the States. Nowt wrong with them at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameritoon Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Once I hit a certain age basically every field you play on here is artificial, and I don't think I ever liked them. I'm generally fast, but the game moves even too fast for me on it, it's a weird fast too, just didn't feel like the same game at times. It does seem like it should be an option for non-league clubs, but even then I doubt they could even afford it it would be years before they would start saving money. Btw, looks like Qatar is in full spin mode now that things are gathering pace: http://deadspin.com/the-organizers-of-the-qatar-world-cup-are-very-mad-at-u-1550619295 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Qatar reduced the number of stadiums it plans to build for the 2022 soccer World Cup by a third amid rising costs and delays. The country, which won the right in 2010 to host the world’s most-watched sporting event, plans to build eight stadiums for the games, Ghanim Al Kuwari, the organizing committee’s senior manager for projects, said at a conference in Doha yesterday. The country originally announced plans for 12 stadiums, including nine new playing fields and three refurbishments. Al Kuwari didn’t give a reason for the cut. Qatar, which holds the world’s third-largest natural-gas reserves, plans to spend more than $200 billion on new infrastructure before hosting the sporting event, including $34 billion on a rail and metro system, $7 billion on a port and $17 billion on an airport. The stadiums will cost $4 billion, according to the ministry of business and trade. “Their decision was motivated by cost-cutting following an assessment of the real needs on the ground,” John Sfakianakis, chief investment strategist at investment company MASIC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said in an e-mail. “It does always make good sense to do necessary cost-cutting and reviews of capex for such huge projects that are front-loaded.” Projects Delayed The Middle Eastern state of 2 million people faces delays and escalating costs related to the event. Work started later than planned on the metro system, and the opening of the new airport is six years behind schedule. “As is the case with any FIFA World Cup, once a country is chosen as host, a review of the bid plans is made with the organizers to propose the final host cities and stadia projects, which then need to be approved by the FIFA Executive Committee,” Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy said in an e-mailed statement today. “The requirement is a minimum of eight and a maximum of 12 stadia.” Qatar’s surplus in its 2014-2015 budget shrank by 1.4 percent, compared with the previous fiscal year, amid a 17 percent gain in spending on “key projects,” the country’s official Qatar News Agency said last month. The inflation rate will rise to 3.8 percent this year, Qatar National Bank, the country’s largest lender, said on April 14. It was 2.6 percent in March, according to government data. Air-Conditioned Venues The country was negotiating with FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, to cut the number of venues to eight or nine from the 12 originally planned, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in an April 2013 note to investors following meetings with the Qatar 2022 organizing committee. Costs will probably exceed the bank’s initial estimate of $95 billion, Alberto Ades, head of emerging-market fixed-income strategy at the bank, said in the note. In addition to the stadiums, 92 training sites will be constructed, Al Kuwari said. Qatar is preparing to host the World Cup in June and will use air-conditioning to cool all the venues. Temperatures can rise above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in Qatar during the summer. FIFA has said it may move the tournament to the cooler months of the year. FIFA President Sep Blatter said Nov. 9 that the months of November and December would work best. Construction has started on the Al Wakrah stadium, while work on the Al Rayyan stadium is set to start later this year, or early in 2015, Al Kuwari said. Qatar plans to award $1.7 billion of road projects in coming months and seek bids for 20 others in the next two years, Jalal Yousef Salhi, director of infrastructure affairs at the country’s Public Works Authority, said yesterday. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-20/qatar-cuts-number-of-world-cup-soccer-stadiums-amid-rising-costs.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 USA USA USA USA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Fuck off man, have it here. Never been here since 66 and people actually like football here. This Qatar thing has got me fucking furious like, well as furious as I can be about daft football stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 Honestly it should just be here every year. We've got everything you need. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 They're nearly spending enough to extend the metro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I have a big problem with people winning contracts by promising greatness only to go ah well actually what we said wasn't possible within the budget, we'll do some of it though". Good example being the Edinburgh trams which now cover about half the initial route they were meant to and run through the busiest bus route possibly in the country. England's bid would have been totally manageable and was remotely realistic, as shown by the wonderful Olympic games. The Qatar thing is so obviously corrupt it's ridiculous. Also, don't FIFA spend more on flights/accomodation/entertainment for themselves than they do on grass roots football? b******s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 I have a big problem with people winning contracts by promising greatness only to go ah well actually what we said wasn't possible within the budget, we'll do some of it though". Good example being the Edinburgh trams which now cover about half the initial route they were meant to and run through the busiest bus route possibly in the country. England's bid would have been totally manageable and was remotely realistic, as shown by the wonderful Olympic games. The Qatar thing is so obviously corrupt it's ridiculous. Also, don't FIFA spend more on flights/accomodation/entertainment for themselves than they do on grass roots football? b******s. Is the Edinburgh tram stuff finished yet? Seems to have been going on forever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted April 22, 2014 Share Posted April 22, 2014 No although they are testing them now at least. Can hear them dinging past the office trying to get Asian tourists to stop standing on Princes street taking pictures of them coming towards them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 What's this about Qatar now being a mistake Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 What's this about Qatar now being a mistake Blatter running for 5th term. Main rival was strong supporter of Qatar(Platini) Cant imagine what his agenda is here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 What's this about Qatar now being a mistake Blatter running for 5th term. Main rival was strong supporter of Qatar(Platini) Cant imagine what his agenda is here Whole organisation stinks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Imagine voting in that election, having the stellar choice of Blatter and Platini Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Imagine voting in that election, having the stellar choice of Blatter and Platini At least there are two candidates this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Imagine voting in that election, having the stellar choice of Blatter and Platini To be fair Labour and Conservatives aren't much worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Imagine voting in that election, having the stellar choice of Blatter and Platini Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 http://deadspin.com/sepp-blatter-giving-qatar-the-world-cup-was-a-mistake-1577347180 Saying the only mistake is the heat. Everything else is kosher. I dunno how we expect things to get better in this sport. It's rotten to the fucking core. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 You cannot tell me those corrupt bastards did not get a bag full of money each to vote in favour of a country knowing it was hot as fuck that time of year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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