FIFA Officials Arrested, Face Extradition to the US

[MichiganWolf]

While I find it somewhat ludicrous that it is possible for the US to try people with little connection over here, I am glad that powerful FIFA members may be held accountable for wrongdoing. - view external link

[Woking88]

Hopefully, the odious Mr Blatter's empire is about to come tumbling down and maybe him with it eventually!

[wolves71]

The FIFA presidential elections are due to take place on Friday and seem likely to go ahead. You couldn't make it up. All the big sponsors need to threaten a boycott of this corrupt regime. Where's there's money though, you will always hear/read stories of the one linked to fifa.

[Evewolf65]

The FIFA presidential elections are due to take place on Friday and seem likely to go ahead. You couldn't make it up. All the big sponsors need to threaten a boycott of this corrupt regime. Where's there's money though, you will always hear/read stories of the one linked to fifa.

Hardly suprising now but Fridays Presidential elections have now been postponed.

[Woking88]

The FIFA presidential elections are due to take place on Friday and seem likely to go ahead. You couldn't make it up. All the big sponsors need to threaten a boycott of this corrupt regime. Where's there's money though, you will always hear/read stories of the one linked to fifa.

Hardly suprising now but Fridays Presidential elections have now been postponed.[/quote]

Where did you see that, Eve? All I can find are various calls to have it postponed, but nothing that says it is definitely postponed.

I certainly think that it should be postponed.

[MichiganWolf]

Some of the interesting findings - $110 million in bribes related to Copa Americ Centenario. The current and previous CONCACAF presidents among those arrested. South Africa 2010 bid found to be corrupt. I'm sure more will come out in time as well

[Woking88]

Some of the interesting findings - $110 million in bribes related to Copa Americ Centenario. The current and previous CONCACAF presidents among those arrested. South Africa 2010 bid found to be corrupt. I'm sure more will come out in time as well

Let's hope that they uncover enough to nail Blatter!

[theplater]

The only thing that surprises me is the time it's taken and it's the American's that have done it.

The minute David Bernstein was made to look like a 'spare ***** at a wedding', with Prince William, David Cameron and Beckham in tow at the World Cup bidding fiasco in 2011 you just knew FIFA was rotten to the core. Any previous suspicions were as near as damned it confirmed when Qatar and Russia got the nominations.

I posted about it at the time, how FIFA had left Bernstein embarrassed in such company,it was almost as if they were deliberately laughing at him and he just stood there with his dick in his hand looking on in utter bewilderment. The fool of a man should have bared his arse, stuck his fingers up and said to Blatter "**** you, and your corrupt organisation" and pulled us out of it altogether. We could have been the first to take a stand against this, laughably titled, 'Governing Body'- have you seen some of these 'characters' by the way, whose images have been broadcast on

[Qhris]

I was in Qatar at the time they won the bid and trust me, everyone was totally gobsmacked. It was widely thought that bidding for the tournament was a PR exercise, for people to look at the bidding nations and say "Qatar? Where's that?!" to drum up some tourism. When they actually got awarded it, something smelled fishy.

I'm really delighted about today and I hope that the investigation doesn't fizzle out, though the FBI are not exactly ones to let go with the teeth sunk into it, they wouldn't have gone into this half-measured. My biggest regret, perhaps a naive one, is that my own influential FA didn't take a stand, as Plater alluded to in the above post. I wish we'd blazed a trail, pulled out of the tournaments, set an example. I know it would have been a drop in the ocean, and the World Cup wouldn't have gotten cancelled because England aren't there. But it would have been a move for integrity and, now with the benefit of hindsight, vindicated. Wish the F.A. had been the moral

[TundraWolf]

The US involvement in raising the legality of the issue of corruption in choosing venues comes primarily from their attempts to host international FIFA events and had been inexplicably turned down. Suspicions arose, evidence gathered and...

Jon Stewart goes after them on his comedy show and questions if there had been suspicions and much evidence since 1991, why no one had laid charges until now. (link below) - view external link