FIFA dirty secrets

[Monty]

Jack Warner's the kind of man who makes you wish smallpox was still around.

As for Blatter, there are no words to describe him anymore, him and the whole bloody organisation.

[Brend'Watkins]

Cancel all friendlies, re-start the Home Internationals and pull the draw bridge up, we could ask Cameroon as they did vote for us apparently.

Cameroon was the other vote was it?

Let's have a commonwealth cup or an Empire cup without Trinidad and Tobago that will show FIFA we mean business.

[dave.woodhall]

The most sickening thing, and there's a lot of competition, is that Jack Warner doesn't even have to pretend he isn't corrupt anymore.

[peter w]

Though the `Three Lions' epithet will have my bum clenched for a bit

I am recovering from a bout of explosive diarrhoea, and that reference has nearly sent me back to ride the porcelain bus.

And he was doing so well. It was like your missus shouting `Dean Gaffney!' at the moment of climax

Aye, you've been there as well. BE, have a word, nice gal 'n all but she can be off putting when the vinegar strokes are starting. Cheers mate. Does a great fry-up after though, fair play.

[john e]

i thought the outcry would start subsiding, but the more you think about it, the worked up you get,
not because we lost out to Russia, but because we raised one vote for a bid that was very strong.

it really is corrupt from top to bottom, i dont know what if anything we can do about it, but the whole thing stinks ,

the fact that 2 voters for Holland switched there votes to Russia as soon as England went out is proof enough that the whole thing was rigged from the start.

before yesterday i honestly thought that the people who banged on about FIFA hating us were all a bit paranoid, and that it was a little englander kind of statement,
after yesterday, i am sure they were right,

i still cant believe that the FIFA mambers gerrymandered the voting process so we got knocked out first, it just beggars belief

i wasnt even that bothered untill yesterday about the whole thing,
 but i just cant stand the blatant cheating that goes on, totaly pissed of with the whole thing.

saddest thing is, i dont think anything will change,

[Concrete John]

saddest thing is, i dont think anything will change,

That's the main problem - they are untouchable and only answerable to themselves.

The only way I can see them being concerned is if the FA make formal complaints, but then as they don't want to be questioned, will the FA do that?

How about a bycott of all FIFA merchandise and events.  No more compuet games and the supporters associations start  a campaign to persuade fans not to travel to Brazil?

[usav]

Agree with that completely "john e".

In fact, I'm less worked up about 2018 than I am 2022.   I mean really, Qatar? 

[Lucky Eddie]

At least we wont have to endure countless thousands of corporate tw@ts on yet another jolly to old trafford or nuwembly! This world cup will mean far more to the Russian people than it would have to the English and it will leave more tickets for the real England fans prepared to make the journey.

[taylorsworkrate]

Can john e and John M please keep some distance between their postings. 

[dave.woodhall]

At least we wont have to endure countless thousands of corporate tw@ts on yet another jolly to old trafford or nuwembly! This world cup will mean far more to the Russian people than it would have to the English and it will leave more tickets for the real England fans prepared to make the journey.

Don't you believe it. The Russian local won't be able to afford the tickets and the Western corporates will still be there.

[taylorsworkrate]

I really hope Russia can do something about the Racism in their game between now and then.

[usav]

Agree with that completely "john e".

In fact, I'm less worked up about 2018 than I am 2022.   I mean really, Qatar?

Like it couldn't get any worse, the US media prounounce Qatar as 'Cutter'.

Lovely.

[Drummond]

People don't like us as a nation as we're arrogant.

The technical bids, the presentation etc are all well and good, the bottom line is that the other bids weren't bad enough to fail and therefore the executives voted for who they wanted. We've held the thing before whilst many countries, including Russia, haven't.

[Lucky Eddie]

But in absolutely no where near the numbers that they would have been if it were held here.

I reckon the world cup will be held back in Scandinavia and in China, India/Pakistan, Australia, again in the middle east and will return to the US ahead of a successful UK bid.

[john e]

At least we wont have to endure countless thousands of corporate tw@ts on yet another jolly to old trafford or nuwembly! This world cup will mean far more to the Russian people than it would have to the English and it will leave more tickets for the real England fans prepared to make the journey.

theres no country in the world that supports its sports teams like we do,
you only have to look at the Cricket last night when we took those early wickets, there was so many English supporters there it looked more like a home match,
same can be said of Rugby and football.

i heard yesterday that the average attendance for the Russian 1st div, was 12000, so not the biggest hotbed of football for such a big population.
not that i think it should have gone to us because we have more supporters, but your point  that it will mean more to them as a nation is wrong,
its bad enough here when we arnt hosting it, it would be super OTT if we had got it