Disco Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Lots of rumours doing the rounds South America will lose their playoff spot for 2018 so it'll be 5 teams down to 4. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 WTF, didn't they basically blitz the last WC? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Aye but far more votes and money to be made elsewhere. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Qatar refuses to let Nepalese workers return to attend funerals after quake Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted May 24, 2015 Share Posted May 24, 2015 Aye but far more votes and money to be made elsewhere. Â 50% of their countries qualify tbf. However if they hand it to Europe it's bullshit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 They got arrested this morning! http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/27/football/fifa-corruption-charges-justice-department/index.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie2000 Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 The cynic in me wonders how many are against Blatter in the vote on friday and will suddenly be banned from the election. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Class but gutted doesn't include Blatter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 Hope the DoJ goes all RICO on FIFA tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 http://i.imgur.com/CeKvvXM.jpg  http://screamer.deadspin.com/chart-the-qatar-world-cup-death-toll-is-stunning-1707286095 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Simply can't support a tournament like that. Sickening Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 But, but every nation should have a fair shout to host the cup Mikey Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Well done FIFA. Every one of those are your fault you utter scum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 http://i.imgur.com/CeKvvXM.jpg  http://screamer.deadspin.com/chart-the-qatar-world-cup-death-toll-is-stunning-1707286095  For this alone the event should be cancelled and moved to a location where the infrastructure can hold it. How many people need to die before it's questionable to hold a world cup there? Disgusting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 that'll only be the deaths we know about as well Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Nah I reckon it includes deaths we don't know about too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Logic Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 It's okay, Bein Sports employee Richard Keys tweets 'No deaths in Quatar - I know, I live here'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 It's starting to look like the bidding process for these might have been dodgy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 It's starting to look like the bidding process for these might have been dodgy. Â http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2057368/kingpin-o.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 It's starting to look like the bidding process for these might have been dodgy. Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jun/04/racism-in-russia-incidents-world-cup-hosts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Qatar is likely be stripped of its chance to host the 2022 World Cup, according to a FIFA whistleblower who was a former senior figure in the country’s bid team. Phaedra Almajid, who turned whistleblower to expose the corruption, has said the abundance of evidence of the wrongdoing in Qatar’s bid would force the world football governing body FIFA to relieve the Gulf country of the responsibility of staging the tournament in 2022. Almajid is an Arab-American based in the United States who worked for Qatar’s 2022 bid till early 2010. Qatar shocked the world by winning, in 2010, the right to host the 2022 event. Since then, allegations of bribery and wrongdoing about their bid have been rife within FIFA. Almajid said she hoped justice is done but that the prospect scared her a lot as she fears some “extremists” may identify her responsible if Qatar is punished. She is under protective custody of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) but fears for her safety, should the oil-rich country lose out on hosting rights. “There are people who are pissed off with me [for speaking out], and what really pisses them off is that I’m a female, Muslim whistleblower,” Almajid was quoted as saying by dailymail.co.uk on Saturday. She also said outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter might take away the 2022 tournament as part of his reform agenda to win him praise “and save his skin”. Blatter quit days after winning a fifth four-year team to become president after getting engulfed in the FIFA corruption scandal. He is under investigation by the FBI for possible wrongdoing. “I just don’t think Blatter actually intends to quit. Everything he does is very calculated. He’ll try very hard to save himself, I’m sure of it,” Almajid said. The FBI arrested seven top FIFA officials and indicted 14 people for financial misdemeanour. Almajid said efforts to force her into retracting her comments have taken place earlier, which forced her to take protective custody in fear of her family’s safety that includes two children, one of them severely disabled. “The FBI have everything,” she claimed. Almajid also co-operated with a FIFA-funded probe led by Michael Garcia, a former US attorney for New York. http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/qatar-to-be-stripped-of-2022-world-cup-fifa-whistleblower/article7291607.ece  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 If not for the countless hundreds of people who have needlessly died building the stadiums, it would have been more satisfying them getting the World Cup and then being stripped of it. That's the real tragedy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Qatar is likely be stripped of its chance to host the 2022 World Cup, according to a FIFA whistleblower who was a former senior figure in the country’s bid team. Phaedra Almajid, who turned whistleblower to expose the corruption, has said the abundance of evidence of the wrongdoing in Qatar’s bid would force the world football governing body FIFA to relieve the Gulf country of the responsibility of staging the tournament in 2022. Almajid is an Arab-American based in the United States who worked for Qatar’s 2022 bid till early 2010. Qatar shocked the world by winning, in 2010, the right to host the 2022 event. Since then, allegations of bribery and wrongdoing about their bid have been rife within FIFA. Almajid said she hoped justice is done but that the prospect scared her a lot as she fears some “extremists” may identify her responsible if Qatar is punished. She is under protective custody of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) but fears for her safety, should the oil-rich country lose out on hosting rights. “There are people who are pissed off with me [for speaking out], and what really pisses them off is that I’m a female, Muslim whistleblower,” Almajid was quoted as saying by dailymail.co.uk on Saturday. She also said outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter might take away the 2022 tournament as part of his reform agenda to win him praise “and save his skin”. Blatter quit days after winning a fifth four-year team to become president after getting engulfed in the FIFA corruption scandal. He is under investigation by the FBI for possible wrongdoing. “I just don’t think Blatter actually intends to quit. Everything he does is very calculated. He’ll try very hard to save himself, I’m sure of it,” Almajid said. The FBI arrested seven top FIFA officials and indicted 14 people for financial misdemeanour. Almajid said efforts to force her into retracting her comments have taken place earlier, which forced her to take protective custody in fear of her family’s safety that includes two children, one of them severely disabled. “The FBI have everything,” she claimed. Almajid also co-operated with a FIFA-funded probe led by Michael Garcia, a former US attorney for New York. http://www.thehindu.com/sport/football/qatar-to-be-stripped-of-2022-world-cup-fifa-whistleblower/article7291607.ece  http://i.imgur.com/qWfHvD4.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonTastic Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 i love their timescale on making decisions personally, was reading this morning that the next decision point as to whether they tear apart the entire football calendar won't be taken until 2015 Â Did as suggested then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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