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Keith_M
16-06-2014, 07:51 AM
FIFA Investigates 2018 World Cup Bid (http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/15/fifa-investigates-england-2018-world-cup-bid-payment)



Blatter trying to get his own back?


:hmmm:

Lewis77
16-06-2014, 11:08 AM
FIFA Investigates 2018 World Cup Bid (http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/15/fifa-investigates-england-2018-world-cup-bid-payment)



Blatter trying to get his own back?


:hmmm:

If no country does anything about it, what can be done? Fifa are above any law, they have proved this time and time again.

--------
16-06-2014, 11:22 AM
Picking up a £35,000 tab for wining and dining Jack Warner and his associates?

What could possibly be dishonest about that? :rolleyes:

Keith_M
16-06-2014, 11:28 AM
If no country does anything about it, what can be done? Fifa are above any law, they have proved this time and time again.


You've no idea how true that is!

In 2003, after a number of deaths at Football Stadia in Brazil, a law was passed banning the sale and consumsion of alcohol at all Football Matches. However, Budweiser are the 'official Beer suppliers' to the World Cup (ploughing in 100s of millions of dollars to FIFAs coffers) and FIFA demanded that Brazil rescind the law.

The Brazilian Government caved in to FIFA pressure and passed another law specifically allowing the sale of Budweiser (and no other Beer) at all World Cup 2014 Stadia.

The law is know locally in Brazil as The Budweiser Bill (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10890696/World-Cup-2014-Time-is-right-to-kick-Fifa-up-the-backside.html), and was one of the things that added fuel to the resentment of the World Cup among the Protesters.

GreenLake
16-06-2014, 11:58 AM
You've no idea how true that is!

In 2003, after a number of deaths at Football Stadia in Brazil, a law was passed banning the sale and consumsion of alcohol at all Football Matches. However, Budweiser are the 'official Beer suppliers' to the World Cup (ploughing in 100s of millions of dollars to FIFAs coffers) and FIFA demanded that Brazil rescind the law.

The Brazilian Government caved in to FIFA pressure and passed another law specifically allowing the sale of Budweiser (and no other Beer) at all World Cup 2014 Stadia.

The law is know locally in Brazil as The Budweiser Bill (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/10890696/World-Cup-2014-Time-is-right-to-kick-Fifa-up-the-backside.html), and was one of the things that added fuel to the resentment of the World Cup among the Protesters.

I can imagine how angry they were being forced to drink bud.

Keith_M
16-06-2014, 12:03 PM
I can imagine how angry they were being forced to drink bud.


Way to miss the point, Dude!


Do you really think it acceptable that FIFA can dictate what laws a country should and shouldn't have?

They insist on the right to fully benefit from alcohol endorsement but have no interest in forcing countries to insist on decent working conditions for the people actually constructing World Cup Stadia.

easty
16-06-2014, 12:16 PM
Way to miss the point, Dude!


Do you really think it acceptable that FIFA can dictate what laws a country should and shouldn't have?

They insist on the right to fully benefit from alcohol endorsement but have no interest in forcing countries to insist on decent working conditions for the people actually constructing World Cup Stadia.

FIFA didn't dictate, sounds to me like they stomped their feet like a spoilt child and the Brazilian government caved in. While that doesn't paint FIFA in a good light whatsoever, it says more about the Brazilian government.

Future17
16-06-2014, 01:22 PM
FIFA didn't dictate, sounds to me like they stomped their feet like a spoilt child and the Brazilian government caved in. While that doesn't paint FIFA in a good light whatsoever, it says more about the Brazilian government.

:agree:

FIFA are tasked with acting in the best interests of football. You can argue about how they go about it sometimes, but that's their mission. The Brazilian Government are supposed to act in the best interests of the Brazilian people and there are strong arguments that they have failed to do that.

weonlywon6-2
16-06-2014, 08:57 PM
Fifa are in charge of the most popular sport on the planet,im sure they will have some sway in decisions,its what happens in a corrupt world that we live in !

Nowt wrong with bud mind,can you imagine the outcry if it was sponsored by tennents!

Keith_M
17-06-2014, 05:10 PM
FIFA didn't dictate, sounds to me like they stomped their feet like a spoilt child and the Brazilian government caved in. While that doesn't paint FIFA in a good light whatsoever, it says more about the Brazilian government.


True, both as bad as each other.

The problem is that they know that if one country doesn't cave in to their demands, there are plenty of others that will.