LooneyToonArmy Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Sepp Blatter has threatened to cause a fresh storm after claiming any racist abuse between football players should be settled by a handshake. The head of Fifa made the controversial comments during a television interview with CNN World Sport. Asked if he thought there was racism on the pitch, the FIFA president said: 'I would deny it. There is no racism, there is maybe one of the players towards another, he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one, but also the one who is affected by that. 'He should say that this is a game. We are in a game, and at the end of the game, we shake hands, and this can happen, because we have worked so hard against racism and discrimination. 'I think the whole world is aware of the efforts we are making against racism and discrimination. And on the field of play sometimes you say something that is not very correct, but then at the end of the game, the game is over and you have the next game where you can behave better.' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062388/Sepp-Blatter-Racism-dealt-handshake-says-world-football-chief.html#ixzz1dwPImuvu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shak Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 One the forum index page the title just shows as "Sepp Blatter: Racism can..." would have been class had he just said 'Racism can suck my balls'. Would have been smarter than what he actually did say, tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matta Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 dont think im ready for a new racism debate. Sepp Blatter can fuck off. Wrong as usual. Im sad that in 2011, soon 2012, racism still is a topic. should have no place in a modern society. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 One the forum index page the title just shows as "Sepp Blatter: Racism can..." would have been class had he just said 'Racism can suck my balls'. Would have been smarter than what he actually did say, tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Stupid as usual. He reminds me of Berlusconi in ways. In both cases it puzzles me how they stay in charge in this day and age. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 This man is FIFA's version of Lambias, he should never have been allowed to run for the job again anyway but surely now he has to go ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Jerusalem Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 He's presided over an obviously corrupt organisation for years and ran elections Robert Mugabe would be proud of. This will get nowehere near shifting him and the so called larger football associations haven't got the balls to threaten to pull out of FIFA never mind actually doing it. The same goes for any of their major sponsors. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The ignorance that leads to statements like that is staggering. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gggg Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Criticised by Stan Collymore, Robbie Savage and Rio Ferdinand on twitter. Oh It's serious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Criticised by Stan Collymore, Robbie Savage and Rio Ferdinand on twitter. Oh It's serious. Its that serious its got a whole paragraph on page 7 of L'Equipe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 An interesting debate on Wright Stuff about this all. Matt Dawson fighting against Blatter's stance fantastically, Wright playing the Devil's advocate well, also, to the point he's irritating the fuck out of me right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The funniest thing is to clear this up Blatter posted a picture of him hugging a black guy on FIFA website Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organisation/president/news/newsid=1544067/index.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The scary thing is that some people do and say so many wrong/stupid things that it just desensitizes you. Most people won't even be that mad about this. They'll just be "oh right, there's Blatter doing something daft again" and forget about it. Part of the reason why he'll never be forced out of power. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The scary thing is that some people do and say so many wrong/stupid things that it just desensitizes you. Most people won't even be that mad about this. They'll just be "oh right, there's Blatter doing something daft again" and forget about it. Part of the reason why he'll never be forced out of power. Could say the same about Ashley and Llambias. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The scary thing is that some people do and say so many wrong/stupid things that it just desensitizes you. Most people won't even be that mad about this. They'll just be "oh right, there's Blatter doing something daft again" and forget about it. Part of the reason why he'll never be forced out of power. Could say the same about Ashley and Llambias. Partially true. I can't say I'd be surprised if Llambias turned out to be a Nazi or something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 shocking truth behind that photo http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6202/lolblatter.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The scary thing is that some people do and say so many wrong/stupid things that it just desensitizes you. Most people won't even be that mad about this. They'll just be "oh right, there's Blatter doing something daft again" and forget about it. Part of the reason why he'll never be forced out of power. All I've heard about on ssn this morning, hopefully it continues until too much pressure is piled of FIFA to remove him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numbers Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Blokes a first class numpty like..diddering old fart probably cant even remember saying it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The guy he's hugging on that picture; Tokyo Sexwale. What. A. Name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 hahaha just like Father Ted http://p.twimg.com/AecnVtECQAAUMKJ.png:large (stolen from this tweet http://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/gmfalcone/status/137121567481151488/photo/1) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 "THE WHOLE OF THE UK IS OUTRAGED BY THIS" Fucking hell watching Sky Sports News this morning I thought he'd actualy called someone a black cunt. Idiotic comments and ones you certainly don't want the head of such a large and diverse organisation making, but seeing the reaction has pissed me off more than the comments themself. I detest Blatter like, and this is just another reason to a pretty substantial list of why he should just fuck off and die. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The guy he's hugging on that picture; Tokyo Sexwale. What. A. Name. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The British media's overreaction to this has been mad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 The guy in charge of football is a racist corrupt idiot, I think it's a fairly big story, though there is a lot of mock outrage going on, FIFA has become everything that's wrong with football, corporate money grabbing and unfriendly. While Blatter is probably guilty in this case of being a bit behind the times rather than an 'outright racist' (there#s not really a proper term) at all, all the negative publicity is good for convincing people what a piece of work he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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