The growing groundswell of support for the removal of Qatar as hosts for the 2022 World Cup shows that Fifa has not got 2022 vision.
The double "blow" of the beautiful game going to firstly Russia and then Qatar suggests that then Fifa executives were given a greater quality of bribe from the Russian Oligarchs and the Oil rich Princes over a series of top quality dinners.
Fifa wants to give football to the masses. Bring the game to South Korea and Japan to open the Asian market......I get it. Bring football to the shanty towns of South Africa, I get it. Bring it back to the samba beat of Brazil and the Copacabana beach.....I get it..........Russia and Qatar. No!
Fifa has a fleet of executives who's only job it is is to travel round the world on expenses accepting bribes in order to select a country to host the World Cup.
FIFA President Blatter said, as of 23 May 2011, that British newspaper The Sunday Times has agreed to bring its whistle-blowing source to meet senior FIFA officials, who will decide whether to order a new investigation into alleged World Cup bidding corruption. "[The Sunday Times] are happy, they agreed that they will bring this whistleblower here to Zurich and then we will have a discussion, an investigation of this," Blatter said.
Specifically, the whistleblower claims that FIFA executive committee members Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma were paid $1.5 million to vote for Qatar.The emirate's bid beat the United States in a final round of voting last December. Blatter did not rule out reopening the 2022 vote if corruption could be proved, but urged taking the matter "step by step." The FIFA president said his organization is "anxiously awaiting" more evidence before asking its ethics committee to examine allegations made in Britain's parliament in early May 2011. Qatar's success has been called into question since The Sunday Times submitted claims to a British lawmakers' inquiry into soccer governance, which included England's failed bid to win 2018 hosting rights. Lawmakers released claims by a former bid employee that Qatar agreed to pay members of FIFA's 24-man executive committee for their votes.
Forgetting the bribery that we need to actually "prove".... Shouldn't a couple of CIA types check the hidden bank accounts of the FIfa officials......can't be that hard. The fact that Qatar has temperatures of up to 40 degrees C. .... A fact that should have been obvious to FIFA had they not been accepting their huge bungs in heavily air conditioned hotel rooms.
"Oh....lets change the dates to Winter.....and thus expecting the entire world to change it's football seasons thanks to FIFA's corrupt mistake.
Lets think. "Does Qatar have a decent football team?" No because they have to play in excessive temperatures....well they would had their games not been played in the WINTER.
There are many reasons for a change in venue and not date.
Firstly America.The soccer hating Yanks, if they are to watch team USA....games will be up against the NFL Grid iron season and so will not get viewers on ESPN,thus sponsorship deals will plummet.
If we don't get to see things like the charming ladies of the Jacksonville Jaguars Cheerleading team (currently strutting their stuff at Fulham F.C.) then there is no God.
Secondly, Scotland under Gordon Strachan are a rapidly improving nation. Sending them to play in Qatar will cost the nation millions in sun cream and the entire team will DIE.
Thirdly Qatar is dry. No I mean no alcohol which in a hot country when on holiday is a ice way to spend when in between games.
As for Russia, I mean looking back at the Manc Chelsea Champions League final. Large country with expensive flights just to get in so travel costs would be horrendous and as for hoards of fans of 32 nations moving around......
Qatar a tiny country with hot temperatures, no alcohol, and not enough stadiums....they MIT as well have awarded the world cups to Monoco and Antartica.
Why not do the sensible thing and award the World Cup to country's who's economy needs help and give it to Greece so that money can be ploughed into improving the country.
I don't know about you but I predict exactly what will happen. Sepp Blatter will get one of his officials to admit that he fiddled his expenses, get a slap on the wrist and have to stay at home for a month. he whole process will be called into question, the result of the fixed ballot will be declared null and void and the corrupt FIFA executives will have to go on hastily arranged fact finding tours again to find a country capable of hosting the World Cup that isn't ....Er...... Hot.
Blatter will continue in his corrupt role as president of Fifa as he is like the Mafia's teflon don's ....nothing sticks.
Just watch this space people....it's coming!
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