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[CropleyWasGod]

Blatter won the first ballot, but not by enough. 130 odd to 70 odd. Needed 140.

Needs a simple majority in the second ballot.

[Hanny]

Ali withdraws and concedes to Blatter according to Sky News.

[hfc rd]

Ali has withdrawn. Blatter now confirmed.

[Baader]

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Ali withdraws and concedes to Blatter according to Sky News.

Yeah Sepp gets the gig as expected. Be interesting to see what happens now...

Not bad for a man who promised not to stand for re-election - his word is his bond!

[iwasthere1972]

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Yeah Sepp gets the gig as expected. Be interesting to see what happens now...

Sponsors withdraw

Bad result. A farce.

[Paisley Hibby]

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Yeah Sepp gets the gig as expected. Be interesting to see what happens now...

Either Eufa will grow a pair and Blatter's fekkked or they just roll over and take it. I know which of those options my Monet would be on

[Thecat23]

Utter shambles... Hope everyone boycotts the World Cup..... Except Scotland and we'll win it 😎

[Baader]

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Utter shambles... Hope everyone boycotts the World Cup..... Except Scotland and we'll win it 

We've been boycotting it for 17 years! Moral trailblazers.

[hfc rd]

Not surprised if the World Cup is to be boycotted.

[bingo70]

Playing devils advocate here (apologies if it's already been discussed) but does blatter not have a pretty good record for the smaller or less traditional football countries?

Just think over his tenure African football seems to have improved, as has Australian and there's been a few smaller countries at the world cup, he's also shown he's keen to move the world cup to new places.

He's been ***** for European countries but I can see why African, Asian, and central American countries would vote for him.

[blackpoolhibs]

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Playing devils advocate here (apologies if it's already been discussed) but does blatter not have a pretty good record for the smaller or less traditional football countries?

Just think over his tenure African football seems to have improved, as has Australian and there's been a few smaller countries at the world cup, he's also shown he's keen to move the world cup to new places.

He's been ***** for European countries but I can see why African, Asian, and central American countries would vote for him.

He's a modern day Robin Hood.

[Thecat23]

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Playing devils advocate here (apologies if it's already been discussed) but does blatter not have a pretty good record for the smaller or less traditional football countries?

Just think over his tenure African football seems to have improved, as has Australian and there's been a few smaller countries at the world cup, he's also shown he's keen to move the world cup to new places.

He's been ***** for European countries but I can see why African, Asian, and central American countries would vote for him.

Not sure some of the folk in SA would agree! Didn't they rip up villages leaving many homeless to build stadiums? One of the most corrupt organisations in the world!

[EdinMike]

A man who has been in charge (and no doubt knew/was part of) corruption and bribery for what 17 years or so.. Aye lets reelect him... Farce !

[Eyrie]

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A man who has been in charge (and no doubt knew/was part of) corruption and bribery for what 17 years or so.. Aye lets reelect him... Farce !

You've got the poor man all wrong. Blatter has been in charge for 17 years or so and was completely oblivious to any suggestion of corruption or bribery until this week.

[Jim44]

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Either Eufa will grow a pair and Blatter's fekkked or they just roll over and take it. I know which of those options my Monet would be on

If I were you, I wouldn't put my Monet on it ...... maybe my Van Gogh or Picasso.

[poolman]

Fifa = corruption

[HappyHanlon]

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Not sure some of the folk in SA would agree! Didn't they rip up villages leaving many homeless to build stadiums? One of the most corrupt organisations in the world!

Some of which are now sitting derelict

Anyone who thinks Qatar won the right to host the World Cup is a

[Thecat23]

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Some of which are now sitting derelict

Anyone who thinks Qatar won the right to host the World Cup is a

That's right, overgrown grass and left to rot. As for Qatar I'm still convinced they will change it!

[jdships]

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Sponsors withdraw

Bad result. A farce.

Sad day for world football
Speaking with a Senior partner at a City firm of accountants he reckons Visa , Coca Cola and McDonalds will all be reassessing their involvement with FIFA over the next few months

[marinello59]

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Sad day for world football
Speaking with a Senior partner at a City firm of accountants he reckons Visa , Coca Cola and McDonalds will all be reassessing their involvement with FIFA over the next few months

They will reassess and stay involved as will all the football nations. Nothing will change, money rules.

[Sir David Gray]

I'll state here and now that there is not a chance that any nation will boycott the next World Cup, as a result of this controversy.

No danger.

[snooky]

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Fifa = corruption

FIFA = F*****d, It's Finally Agreed

[greenpaper55]

I think it will be hard to pin any fraud onto Blatter but to say that he cannot keep an eye on every countries FIFA dealings is no excuse, he could have kept an eye on at least some but he chose not to so a massive fail on his part. He has built his power base on a basis of one country one vote -for example Gibralter has the same voting rights as Brazil-one vote, divide and conquer is his strategy and until that is changed he could go on until he drops dead !.

[CropleyWasGod]

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Sad day for world football
Speaking with a Senior partner at a City firm of accountants he reckons Visa , Coca Cola and McDonalds will all be reassessing their involvement with FIFA over the next few months

The idea that Coca-Cola, of all people, are concerned about ethics is laughable and slightly nauseating.

[Jim44]

Now that Septic Blatter has shown them who the boss is, will Platini and Regan resign their positions, having threatened to do this and do that, in order to clean up the mess of world football? Or will they just hide under a stone till Blatter says they can show their faces again. Maybe I've pre-judged them and maybe they will carry out their threats.

[Colr]

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He's a modern day Robin Hood.

He's football's Robert Mugabe.

[Gus]

Is there a list published who voted for this cant and who didn't?
Holland, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Germany defo never, on intrigued to find out who did

[pontius pilate]

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Is there a list published who voted for this cant and who didn't?
Holland, Ireland, England, Scotland, France, Germany defo never, on intrigued to find out who did

You will prob find that it would have been the caf and afc ie the African and Asian football Feds. What surprised me was Argentina not voting for blather so the South American countries as a whole were probably split

[jacomo]

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I think it will be hard to pin any fraud onto Blatter but to say that he cannot keep an eye on every countries FIFA dealings is no excuse, he could have kept an eye on at least some but he chose not to so a massive fail on his part. He has built his power base on a basis of one country one vote -for example Gibralter has the same voting rights as Brazil-one vote, divide and conquer is his strategy and until that is changed he could go on until he drops dead !.

Blatter set up FIFA's 'ethics committee' in response to previous allegations of corruption, then suppressed Michael Garcia's report when it detailed that corruption.

He's allowed a culture of corruption to flourish at FIFA. To say he can now clean it up is laughable.

[blackpoolhibs]

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Blatter set up FIFA's 'ethics committee' in response to previous allegations of corruption, then suppressed Michael Garcia's report when it detailed that corruption.

He's allowed a culture of corruption to flourish at FIFA. To say he can now clean it up is laughable.

If he's guilty of what we all think he's guilty of, then the FBI will find the evidence. Although this will take years to gather all the evidence, i'd bet we will be talking about this in 5 years and still be trying to pin the blame on him.

Its very much like the mafia, but luckily there will be more willing to talk against the family.