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Guest Roger Kint

It's starting to look like the bidding process for these might have been dodgy.

 

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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

 

 

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Guest firetotheworks

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.

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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

 

 

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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 :lol:

 

Did as suggested then :)

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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

 

 

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what a fucking turncoat, that Ra character.

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What an incredible picture. Absolutely the best thing about American Patriotism are the pictures :lol:

English do the same, ever seen anyone with the British bulldog tattoo?

 

I've never seen one as an egyptian god, no. Just a fat bulldog on a fat man.

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Was Portugal and Spain.

 

Thanks both second place  finished nations deserve to get the tournament.

No they don't. The votes were cast in a way to get the favourites for the bidding out, then the next favourites.

 

For example England were knocked out in the first round of voting, Holland then went out in the round after that with less votes than they had in the first round. The question is why did Holland have less votes in the 2nd round than the 1st when Holland were already still in contention of winning the bid? Votes for other nations should have only gone up due to the votes of England now being allocated elsewhere.

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