Sepp Blatter resigns

Amelia Chaffinch · (This post was last modified: 02-06-2015, 19:00 by Amelia Chaffinch.)

After insisting on running for another term as president of FIFA and knocking out the competition, Step Ladder has resigned.

http://gu.com/p/49e2a

theo_luddite · 02-06-2015, 19:11

“I will organise extraordinary congress for a replacement for me as president,” said the 79-year-old Swiss. “I will not stand. I am now free from the constraints of an election. I will be in a position to focus on profound reforms. For many years we have called for reforms. But these are not sufficient.

“We need a limitation on mandates and terms of office. I have fought for these changes but my efforts have been counteracted.”

Gonna keep his thumbs in the lucrative pies then.

**Lord Snooty** · 02-06-2015, 19:15

There won't be any changes though. It will still be a ridiculous organisation, run by cash obsessed buffoons.

**spireitematt** · 02-06-2015, 19:24

FIFA now needs to change or disband and start a fresh. They need a president who knows football inside out.

theo_luddite · 02-06-2015, 20:08

(02-06-2015, 19:15)Lord Snooty Wrote: There won't be any changes though. It will still be a ridiculous organisation, run by cash obsessed buffoons.

No changes at all.

Walker told England (I believe), 'we all know you can do it, you just need to tell us why.' Seth Efrika apparently gave him 10 million reasons it appears for 2010, we didn't for 2018 or 2022, so as a result we barely got a vote.

Form an orderly queue with your collections of stuffed brown paper envelopes for future bids and elections outside FIFA-Strasse 20, Zurich at your leisure. Whistle

WakeyTerrier · 03-06-2015, 09:19

It's the best football news I've heard in ages. Clearly the FBI investigation is more serious than FIFA first thought..

Right so Blatter gone, next up is to look at the bidding process for Russia18 and Qatar22.

**Lord Snooty** · 03-06-2015, 14:01

What is a bidding process if not bribery? If England had won the bid, would there have been all this fuss?
Maybe FIFA's mistake was to accept the biggest, most obvious bribes and not the more reasonable bung that our definitely not corrupt FA put on the table.

theo_luddite · 03-06-2015, 16:35

I doubt parts of our FA are whiter than white tbh. Why do you think the PL when it split from the FL didn't want to come directly under the FA? Still, they could be rank amateurs compared to those present that Blatter reminded were accused of corruption (by the BBC and some of the British Press) just before they cast the votes for the two World Cup Finals.

The way bids are evaluated comes down to what is in it for me and if it's enough I'll get our whole Federation to vote for you, not just one or two members of them. Maybe if the evaluator's all came from one country or one Federation that wasn't in line for the finals they would be less able to influence votes outside their own Federation. Regardless though, where there are billions in currency floating around in the ether there will be snakes trying to skim some off.

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 03-06-2015, 21:11 by Lord Snooty.)

That sounds like Cantona's seagull speech, Theo. Big Grin

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 03-06-2015, 22:09 by theo_luddite.)

Same book different Chapter Snoots Thumb up

Breaking news on BBC website
Former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer has detailed his bribe-taking, racketeering and money laundering as part of a guilty plea in New York.
He says that he and others on Fifa's executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup host.
Mr Blazer says he also accepted bribes over the 1998 event.