Disco Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Severe muffin top on #3. Serious wnb. 2,1,3,4 IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 bbc has a bit more detail on that times story http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27652181 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicago_shearer Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Hopefully this gets taken away from them. Stupid fucking decision. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Hopefully this gets taken away from them. Stupid fucking decision. Money's slowly consuming the game and Fifa are totally facilitating it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Hopefully this gets taken away from them. Stupid fucking decision. Money's slowly consuming the game and Fifa are totally facilitating it. Facilitating is mild. FIFA positively encourage and welcome money. That's what it's about for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Hopefully this gets taken away from them. Stupid f***ing decision. taken away and given it to who... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 we all know how Saltlake bribe and all... They can't take it away from them... It is important to change FIFA so that this will never happen to them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Taken away from Qatar If the evidence becomes indisputable, we'll get some 'lessons learnt' from FIFA and one or two resignations (with the comfort of a generous pay-off to remain hush) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 what's ludicrous is everyone basically already knew this. I bet there's be genuine worldwide shock if there was incontrovertible evidence that Qatar was awarded the world cup on merit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I'd take it away from them and give it to Austrailia. Or have an independent revote. In reality, Qatar will push the man involved onto the sword, claim they've been reborn as a nation/they had no clue and it was all his idea, and FIFA will nod their heads and allow them to keep it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Both the Russian and Qatar bids were corrupt. In the first round of voting England got knocked out, then in the 2nd round the members voted for different nations despite their original choice still being in contention. Russia gained more votes with each round of voting, even from members who voted differently in previous rounds and their original or 2nd choices were still in contention to win. In other words it was discussed between a select few (or all) members who they would vote for in each round in order for the eventual winners to be Russia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 To be fair though, Russia has a football culture (albeit a violent and racist football culture ) Qatar has nothing of the sort and had no reason to get it beyond corruption. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 If Russia had run on merit I wouldn't have minded, but they didn't, it was so obviously bought. Qatar should never have won, even if they had won on merit it should never be held there because it is a world sport and when the world and their cultures arn't welcome they shouldn't be allowed to host. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newcastle Fan Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was while i was driving in Bahrain (right next to Qatar) Last week, in fucking May Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I'd take it away from them and give it to Austrailia. Or have an independent revote. In reality, Qatar will push the man involved onto the sword, claim they've been reborn as a nation/they had no clue and it was all his idea, and FIFA will nod their heads and allow them to keep it. will it be that simple? i imagine if the allegations are proven then the countries that lost out to qatar will at the very least try to force a repeat of the vote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Think they won it fair and square the should be allowed to host it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Think they won it fair and square the should be allowed to host it. http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/07-minister.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was while i was driving in Bahrain (right next to Qatar) Last week, in fucking May You took that while travelling at 110 kph? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 This was while i was driving in Bahrain (right next to Qatar) Last week, in fucking May You took that while travelling at 110 kph? Having experienced the driving in the middle east, I expect he was probably the least dangerous driver on the road at that point Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I'd take it away from them and give it to Austrailia. Or have an independent revote. In reality, Qatar will push the man involved onto the sword, claim they've been reborn as a nation/they had no clue and it was all his idea, and FIFA will nod their heads and allow them to keep it. will it be that simple? i imagine if the allegations are proven then the countries that lost out to qatar will at the very least try to force a repeat of the vote any country complaining will either get "grants" (which will conveniently end up in the fa executives back pockets rather than any kind of grass roots) or threatened with removal from the football "family", any government tries to intervene in stopping this corruption that country gets banned. The whole thing is corrupt beyond redemption and FIFA, UEFA, and every single FA world wide needs to be torn down and start from scratch to remove it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Who were the other countries that were trying to compete with Qatar in the 'bidding' process? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Who were the other countries that were trying to compete with Qatar in the 'bidding' process? US, Korea and someone else. Seems too far gone for them to buy it a second time to me, too much scrutiny now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Well done The Times for there hard graft and getting this deplorable act into the public eye but inevitably it will mean England will never host a world cup in our lifetimes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Austrailia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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