Blatter resigns

[Captain]

Good riddance!

[Jairzinho]

Tony Blair and Abu Hamza the current bookies favourites to replace him.

[Wezza]

I think I might crack open a bottle of something!

[magicrat]

Just read it.

Unbelievable. What was that election about a week ago ?

The daft bent cunt. 

[Captain]

Haha! I reckon the Yanks have something on him.

 

I wonder if we'll see new candidates now and not least when the election will be.

[Kevin D]

Could he do job at RB?

[Russ Atmosphere]

Burn FIFA to the ground and start again.

[mouse1989]

I've heard he's going to Everton on a free

 

Where's the Blatter money, Bill?

[Trumo]

Not unexpected.

[magicrat]

Tony Blair and Abu Hamza the current bookies favourites to replace him.

nah this fella just giving his first interview 

 

[Megadrive Man]

Genuine quote from Blatter

 

 'I love Fifa more than anything else'

[magicrat]

Genuine quote from Blatter

 

 'I love bungs more than anything else'

 

fixed

[Special K]

Wasn't he due in the US for the CONCACAF tournament?

 

Just waiting for him to move to a non extradition country now!

[FanchesterCity]

We probably paid him to step down.

[magicrat]

Wasn't he due in the US for the CONCACAF tournament?

 

Just waiting for him to move to a non extradition country now!

Thought it was Canada

Moscow nice this time of year

[Pureblood]

He loves FIFA more than anything?  I bet his wife is happy.

 

I love this corrupt institution more than I love you, darling.

[Alan Sex]

 

So Long, Suckers!

[Captain]

The next president will not be elected on this congress. They will hold a new one between December and March.

 

That's going to be quite a race.

[FanchesterCity]

Platini will be up for that, but there's no chance someone from Europe will win... Blatter's Boys will back anybody but an ex UEFA man

[Pureblood]

It'll be Platini, won't it? Or is he happy with his UEFA gig?

[FanchesterCity]

It'll be Platini, won't it? Or is he happy with his UEFA gig?

 

It's the job he wants, but not sure it's the one he can get. He's made too many enemies.

It'd be better to get someone completely new in... like Seb Coe (but won't be him).

[Nightcat]

Even Blatter resigned.

 

Maybe we need an FBI investigation for the Rodgers - Ayre to get lost and for the FSG gang to sell up and leave.

 

Even Blatter resigned!

[RoboRiise]

I wouldn't usually quote myself but here's a post I made about Blatter back in November:

 

 

Aye, I'm suprised the corrupt cunt hasn't suggested double points for the last World Cup qualifying game yet, probably just hasn't found someone who will pay him enough.

 

It's not the fact that he's so crooked he has to screw his pants on (credit to Hunter S Thompson) that bothers me; I expect that from the head of an old boys backslapping club like FIFA.  It's the fact that he's so secure in his position that he can afford to treat anybody attempting to challenge him with utter contempt.

 

For a glimmer of hope, we can look to cycling - for years the corruption in the sport from top to bottom was effectively ignored by UCI president Hein Verbruggen; he was then replaced by Pat McQuaid, possibly most venal, duplicitous sack of shit ever to run a sporting organisation and took an honorary role whilst McQuaid carried on his 'good work'.  That's exactly the same situation as FIFA had with Joao Havelange being replaced with Blatter.

 

Even three years ago McQuaid had pretty much an iron grip on cycling, largely because just like Blatter he knew exactly whose nest to feather whilst he was in power - that's the great truth of leading these organisations, you only need to identify maybe five people who matter and you can afford to say fuck the rest.

 

The cunt has gone now though, mainly because like others before him there comes a tipping point where they are so high on their own hubris that they don't notice the wind has changed direction.  Blatter's day will come, it always does.  The waiting will just make it all the sweeter.

 

The real problem is that the organisation itself is only set up to enable the next Blatter and the next and the next.  Any meaningful change at FIFA has to come from the national associations and be pumped into the organisation; the organisation itself only has one interest these days and it is self preservation.  At the moment the national associations basically just get into an orderly queue to suck FIFA's corporate cock in the hope of getting splashed with a bit of its jizz.

 

Delighted that the first part has now happened.  The last paragraph is going to be key for what comes next though - there's basically one chance to sort this towering pile of shite out, get the wrong appointee who just starts to feather their own nest instead of beginning the kind of root and branch reform that will be needed before the organisation can even begin to climb out of the cesspit of Blatter's making and this will achieve nothing.

[ratcatcher]

Emperor's new clothes springs to mind.

 

For clarity, Im thinking not a lot will change within FIFA.

[magicrat]

It'll be Platini, won't it? Or is he happy with his UEFA gig?

 

Not sure Platini's hands are clean, They really need a new guy, 

The Qatar thing is going to need some unraveling