Honorary FIFA President Resigns

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Don't know if it warrants a thread of it's own but FIFA and allegations of corruption have been a topic of debat on here in the past.

Sky Sports Breaking news, Joao Havelange resigns as honorary FIFA president following bribery allegations.

[northbank123]

FIFA might be corrupt?

[DB10GOONER]

Any chance he'll go postal and return to the office with a shotgun looking for Sepptic Bladder? Just saying.

[Barriecuda]

FIFA and UEFA sicken me, they are so outrageously corrupt. (Qatar winning the 2022 World Cup is more than enough evidence for me.)

[I Hate Hleb]

Honorary and Fifa in the same sentence? Surely an oxymoron?

[flash gunner]

1 down 249 of the other crooked bastards to go

[Ben Diesel]

Havelange will be 97 years old next week.

There's a whiff of him resigning in order to draw flak away from Sepp Blatter.

[QuartzGooner]

Been allegations against Havelange since the 90's.

[Offside]

Blatter was a worthy successor to Havelange. The circumstances surrounding Mexico getting the rights to host the 1986 World Cup were dodgy to say the least.

[DB10GOONER]

Lads, sorry - just a quick reminder. So far we are ok (ish ) but if you post any specific allegations about any named person, please also post the proof. Let's just be careful what we post on this thread. You never know if the dirty corrupt crooked cúnts have someone trawling the interweb for this type of stuff.

[OneBardGooner]

Any chance he'll go postal and return to the office with a shotgun looking for Sepptic Bladder? Just saying.

We can but hope and wish!

[OneBardGooner]

Lads, sorry - just a quick reminder. So far we are ok (ish ) but if you post any specific allegations about any named person, please also post the proof. Let's just be careful what we post on this thread. You never know if the dirty corrupt crooked cúnts have someone trawling the interweb for this type of stuff.

You mean Blatta is not a *word censored* but only (allegedly) a *word censored*

[OneBardGooner]

Havelange will be 97 years old next week.

There's a whiff of him resigning in order to draw flak away from Sepp Blatter.

Flak? or Bullets?

[Supagoon]

can't believe we didn't get the 2018 world cup

We wined and dined the right peoples. We sent them luxurious gifts, we gave them a evening basking in the beckham's engrossing company, and yet are we are told this was not enough.

Maybe we misread the bidding process, maybe we should have gone further!

but then as the saying goes, It is better to have 'bidded' and to have lost than to have never bid at all.

I'm sure next time we will send them 'King William' specially baked in a giant chocolate gateau which will seal the deal.

[northbank123]

Process was rigged from the off - England had no hope.

Real shame was that nobody at the FA/bid team had the balls to blow the whistle on the corruption - there are very few opportunities to put FIFA under real scrutiny that they can't slime away from but bringing the World Cup venue selection process to a shuddering halt would have been one.

Instead, when they start throwing round allegations afterwards it's easy to brush off as sour grapes. England really missed the boat there.