FIFA Chronicles

That's a yearly low.

dena wrote:SBSP you've made like 5 only posts today. Stop it.

Only 5? Need to up my game.

EDIT: Beat me to it Steve.

Ok, I went through all of your posts really quickly, and literally found 20 smiley only posts today (as in, since last night midnight). I had to stop there because I think my brain would've exploded.

deal with it

Dan wrote:

Kuled wrote:deal with it

Screenshot?

What the fuck is wrong with his hand?

Dan wrote:

Kuled wrote:deal with it

Below the belt

Dan wrote:

Kuled wrote:deal with it

Hahaha!

To be fair to Blatter, he did propose that the next selection of hosts should be voted amongst the 208 members of FIFA, and not the 24 member Executive Committee. That would be a good change, but something that NEEDS to happen, as it would almost be impossible to buy a bid then.

An hour after winning his unopposed
presidential election yesterday, Sepp Blatter alighted on his solution
for introducing new transparency and corporate governance to Fifa: Henry
Kissinger.

The Vietnam war-era US national security adviser and secretary of state
headed the list of "politicians, celebrities and former footballers" who
will make up the "solution committee" that will be Fifa's answer to the
corruption problems that shredded its reputation in recent months.

Kissinger, 88, is a long-term associate of Blatter, on whose invitation
he has enjoyed hospitality at major football events such as the 2006
World Cup in his native Germany.

This does not appear to preclude involvement with what will pass as
Fifa's anti-corruption squad that will recommend new processes and
procedures. Any such proposals will first have to pass muster with the
same Fifa congress that handed Blatter his overwhelming mandate
yesterday.

Blatter also talked of co-opting on to the solution committee Johan
Cruyff, the man who has been credited with transforming Barcelona into
arguably the greatest football team ever assembled. "This will be a
commission of the wise," said Blatter. "Kissinger loves football: he'll
be part of it. And Cruyff, he's the perfect personality to help us in
this solution commission."

Fifa's sponsors may have brought about the corporate governance
rerforms. Adidas, which lavishes more than $40m a year on Fifa as its
sportswear partner, was the first to speak out last week. Later
Coca-Cola, Emirates and Visa also expressed their dismay.

In private, it appears, more robust messages were sent. "They told me
they trust us but they said can we bring back the boat of Fifa?" said
Blatter. "They wouldn't say they would withdraw, they'd only been a
little bit concerned."

Scuba Steve wrote:To be fair to Blatter, he did propose that the next selection of hosts should be voted amongst the 208 members of FIFA, and not the 24 member Executive Committee. That would be a good change, but something that NEEDS to happen, as it would almost be impossible to buy a bid then.

Smaller nations could be bribed at a lower expense than some ExCo members, Blatter is just trying to cut costs.

Vickery always brings an interesting perspective.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/tim_vickery/05/31/tabarez.fifa/index.html?eref=writers&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+rss%252Fsi_tim_vickery+%2528Writers%253A+Tim+Vickery%2529