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FIFA dirty laundering

Burkie 1's picture
Submitted by Burkie 1 on Fri, 05/06/2015 - 09:16

it appears now that the FIFA scandal might just be the biggest in the history of financial wrong doing , every day new revelations are coming to hand and its starting to look as though this organisation might just be a money laundering operation for another , shall we say iffy outfit , namely the mafia,with three of the main banks in the uk holding massive funds in FIFA accounts and it appears that even Ireland has been tarnished by the long tenticals of of this organisation , it seems there was a company established in 2006 or so ( now wound up ) called FIFA Ireland, based at the financial services center in Dublin it had no employees yet transferred over a hundred million to the parent org in Switzerland , and even our own football governing body,the FAI may now be foundering on the rocks with the good ship Blatter , you all remember the famous hand ball incident by Theary Henry , well it now appears that FIFA paid the FAI 5 million in compo and that money might have gone walk about , meanwhile you and i will continue to pay our 50 or 60£ in money and all we ask is a good game ,

Tip of the iceberg ? i think so
Bullyhammer's picture

Agreed. Our own FAs must be looked at, I trust them little more than FIFA. The fat cat culture must end. 360,000 salary and unknown 'expenses' for the head of the Irish FA?? Ridiculous!! Greg Dyke and his 'gifts' that are worth more than what most of us earn in a year? Where there is money there is corruption, and where there is BIG money there is BIG corruption. How we root it out I really don't know, but we must try.

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I asked the question on the old site "What's in modern day football for the fans?". It seems that everybody is just coining off the top and we get dished up with the leftovers. Which real football fans are going to be able to get to Qatar and watch the world cup? The stadiums will be awash with rich locals and celebrities. Is that what football is meant to be? At least if it's in mainland Europe, S. America or even the states, it's fairly accessible. I'm not sure Qatar does B&B's and map sites. The whole game is corrupt. In fact it's so corrupt that what we as punters regard as immoral, is now common practise. Our own beloved ex-manager was a typical example of agent corruption. Using one man Mark Curtis to sign anybody decent at a club he managed. Funnily Allardyce's son also worked for Curtis. The list of Mark Curtis players and ex players at West Ham are Kevin Nolan, James Tomkins, Jack Collison, Matt Jarvis, Andy Carroll, Jussi Jaaskelainen, Adrian, Joey O’Brien, Guy Demel and guess who recently signed then a week later made his debut, Reece Burke. Guess who didn't sign and got shipped out? Ravel Morrison. To me the phrase in football at the moment is conflict of interests. Where does a manger stop just being interested in what goes on the training ground and pitch? What's the point in Qatar putting on a World Cup? Are they suddenly going to start producing kids to play football? It seems to me that the people running football at every level are solely interested in what's in it for them, not us. It's why there's so much pressure on winning regardless. If you look at the Prem, how many fans actually enjoy watching their team play? Chelsea (coz they win), Man U ( all tourists), Man City, Arksnal, Liverpool and Swansea? Outside of that it's all run of the mill stuff. We're in constant fear of failure and guess what most of the time we do fail. I think most fans go to football now out of habit rather than to be entertained or extracted from the hum drum of normal life for a couple if hours. That's what football used to be, the working man's Saturday afternoon except from a 5 1/2 day week. Salary caps and foreign import caps. Give the profits back to the fans in cheap tickets, free replica shirts with every season ticket. Free live TV matches for every club member. Does any player need £100k a week? Five year deal at £100k a week is £26 million, extortionately enough to get by in my opinion when they retire in their mid thirties. What about every player gives 10% of their salary immediately to charity, that would be around £105 million. Or what about they all take wages for 51 weeks a year and give just one week of money to UK charities. That would be a staggering 654 (players) x £31,000 (average weekly wage) =£20.3 million for one week.

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I went to an AFC Wimbledon match this year. My mate played for them and I know the dad of one of the Southend players, who they were playing. It was freezing the ground was crap, food old school and greasy. But it was fantastic. There were mistakes which lead to chances, no one pulled out of a tackle. You could hear the players. There were loads of kids there, getting accessible pro football. After the game the players were also accessible too to the fans. There's a lot to be said for that level of football still, people should try it every now and again. It reminds me of rugby matches from the premiership down.

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chubbyTURK's picture

It has always been about Money and now we can see it is about dirty money too, what makes football tick is not the endorsements advertisements very rich players or fat cats, it is about two things for me that come at the top No 1 The fans No 2 Entertainment the rest is Mickey mouse.

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One of the best games ive been to in recent years was peterborough away in the chumps.6000 hammers in a shitty old tin hut of a ground but it was like going back in time.3 & 1/2 thousand of us in their rickety old stand,god knows how it survived the evening.The toilets were so poor & small that everyone just decided to p*ss up the wall!!oh the memories....

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