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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

To be honest it doesn't make a great deal of difference either way, while they're easy to corrupt they don't actually put any decent amount of money or media draw in to make them important to the overall outcome - if things don't get sorted the main, big hitting countries could quite easily boycott FIFA and make it a very poor setup... and it'd be about time too.

 

While the current situation is on a much larger scale it reminds me of when the PDC split off from the BDO in darts and took all the big names with them, you can't mistreat the main players within the game forever without eventual consequences.

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

 

Votes should count after their own FIFA ranking tbh. 1-10 get so so many votes. 11-20 so so many and so on.

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

 

Would you be happy if a all football decisions in this country were dictated by Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal i.e. Distribution of TV money?

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

 

Votes should count after their own FIFA ranking tbh. 1-10 get so so many votes. 11-20 so so many and so on.

 

Or weighted based on the number of clubs presided over by that particular FA. That way it's not really dependent on the results, just the size of the FA.

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

 

Votes should count after their own FIFA ranking tbh. 1-10 get so so many votes. 11-20 so so many and so on.

 

Or weighted based on the number of clubs presided over by that particular FA. That way it's not really dependent on the results, just the size of the FA.

 

:thup:

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WTF, no majority, so they do another round. What's the point? Blatter's won.

 

Drag it out for a few more hours, cops are probably waiting outside.

 

God knows how Blatter is getting any votes other than the corrupt fuckers that kept him around for so long... it just shows how deep the corruption is and how many country's representatives are involved.

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One country one vote is the standard for international organizations and I don't understand why that should be different for FIFA.

 

Anyone else from Europe was just as capable as Blatter of catering to and influencing the smaller footballing nations from Asia/Africa if they chose to do so. It's just that Blatter was the first one to ever actually give a shit about us instead of assuming we were just shitty backwater places that deserved the occasional charity appearance at the World Cup and nothing more.

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One country one vote is the standard for international organizations and I don't understand why that should be different for FIFA.

 

Anyone else from Europe was just as capable as Blatter of catering to and influencing the smaller footballing nations from Asia/Africa if they chose to do so. It's just that Blatter was the first one to ever actually give a shit about us instead of assuming we were just shitty backwater places that deserved the occasional charity appearance at the World Cup and nothing more.

 

Aye, it was all part of his evil masterplan - the bloke's like Emperor Palpatine, weaving his web of deceit and corruption through exploiting the weak.

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One country one vote is the standard for international organizations and I don't understand why that should be different for FIFA.

 

Anyone else from Europe was just as capable as Blatter of catering to and influencing the smaller footballing nations from Asia/Africa if they chose to do so. It's just that Blatter was the first one to ever actually give a shit about us instead of assuming we were just shitty backwater places that deserved the occasional charity appearance at the World Cup and nothing more.

 

Aye, it was all part of his evil masterplan - the bloke's like Emperor Palpatine, weaving his web of deceit and corruption through exploiting the weak.

 

It's all politics and he was good at it while other people were shit.

 

Would have been nicer if he could have pulled it off without all the money exchanging hands, of course.

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The idea that those countries have as much say isn't a terrible one, it's just that they don't have as much money as the others so are far more susceptible to being bribed.

He isn't bribing every smaller nation in the world. He is treating them well and they in turn want him to continue. Blatter was a massive advocate of the South African world cup and the use of vuvuzelas when others wanted FIFA to ban them, basically getting all of Africa behind him

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Do all these shitty little nothing countries get the same vote as the big countries?

 

Yes

 

Absolute disgrace.

Why?

 

The fact that England or Spain could be outvoted by Timor Leste and Montserrat (for example) is a total joke. They have nothing to do with the game.

You can't have a global governing body that only focuses on the elite players. One of the reasons Blatter is so popular is because he treats the smaller and poor nations well. Its like saying the richest guy in America's vote in an election should count for more than an ordinary working class person

 

Yes you can, and no it's not. Football is a non-essential part of society.

 

Would you be happy if a all football decisions in this country were dictated by Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Arsenal i.e. Distribution of TV money?

:thup: Good analogy

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