Blatter and Platini banned for 8 years!

[SteveHFC]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35144652

Pleasing news to wake up too.

[cabbageandribs1875]

good, should have been banned sine die, shame on them both and all the rest of the crooks in Fifa/Uefa

[MrSmith]

_{disappointed re Platini, thought he was a good guy!}

[cabbageandribs1875]

all the other disgraced officials should have a whip-round and get him a shaver for xmas

[Big_Franck]

Delighted with this but it's not before time. Blatter will be absolutely sickened, which just makes it all the better.

[Thecat23]

Should have been jailed.

[CropleyWasGod]

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Should have been jailed.

Unfortunately, FIFA don't have that power.

But watch this space....

[Scottie]

Word on the street is Blatter to Hearts and Platini to the Huns.

Who says crime doesn't pay ?

[ian cruise]

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good, should have been banned sine die, shame on them both and all the rest of the crooks in Fifa/Uefa

They've only been able to provide breach of riles around gifts which is why it's 8 years. However US and Switzerland are now going to get involved so possibly further ramifications.

[Deansy]

It's absolutely hilarious that this 'Ethics Committee' (Oxymoron ?) fine them peanuts but make no mention of returning the £1.35m - an amount that - if the FBI ever get a total figure of how much FIFA money is rotten - will be minuscule compared to the total amount that the pair of them have 'handled' throughout their entire careers, which must total roughly 60/70 years between the two of them !!

It would be even more hilarious if one single member of this 'Ethics Committee' really believe the outside world will see this action as FIFA really cleaning up their act !!!

[jdships]

Begs the question surely - How far does this corruption go ? It has even be suggested that it is happening in Charities !!
How did it go undetected for all these years - stinks !!
Reminds one of a couple of football clubs
It also raises questions about other organisation's
Is this a business wide crime/problem ? Are we , the public ,victims of major fraud in many large company's ?
" Corruption ,Corruption , Corruption "

[jdships]

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It's absolutely hilarious that this 'Ethics Committee' (Oxymoron ?) fine them peanuts but make no mention of returning the £1.35m - an amount that - if the FBI ever get a total figure of how much FIFA money is rotten - will be minuscule compared to the total amount that the pair of them have 'handled' throughout their entire careers, which must total roughly 60/70 years between the two of them !!

It would be even more hilarious if one single member of this 'Ethics Committee' really believe the outside world will see this action as FIFA really cleaning up their act !!!

[ian cruise]

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It's absolutely hilarious that this 'Ethics Committee' (Oxymoron ?) fine them peanuts but make no mention of returning the £1.35m - an amount that - if the FBI ever get a total figure of how much FIFA money is rotten - will be minuscule compared to the total amount that the pair of them have 'handled' throughout their entire careers, which must total roughly 60/70 years between the two of them !!

It would be even more hilarious if one single member of this 'Ethics Committee' really believe the outside world will see this action as FIFA really cleaning up their act !!!

As above, they could only prove they breached rules surrounding the giving of gifts. These guys are experts at hiding their acts. Fifa couldn't get enough evidence to convict on grounds of corruption even though that's the outcome they wanted.

[s.a.m]

The Blatter press conference is hilarious. He's gone all Henry Sellers.

[Ozyhibby]

Only when they are in jail will I be happy.
There are no good guys in football administration as we have seen in this country.


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[SmashinGlass]

This pair have scammed millions through the years and their punishment..... Early retirement. That's what it amounts to

[Monts]

Blatter seems to be losing the plot. Rambling about being above the committee and that they can't ban him because he's the president. Sounds like someone who has had his own way for quite a while now. The way an overthrown dictator might act.

[Deansy]

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Blatter seems to be losing the plot. Rambling about being above the committee and that they can't ban him because he's the president. Sounds like someone who has had his own way for quite a while now. The way an overthrown dictator might act.

Hopefully he'll lose the plot completely and start naming national organisations that have 'benefitted' (or been complicit ?) with his/FIFA's benevolence over the years ..........

[poolman]

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_{disappointed re Platini, thought he was a good guy!}

Another crook

Voted for Qatar as well 😈

Who in their right mind would vote for that place to hold a world cup unless there were a lot of substantial sized broon envelopes getting passed around

[Carheenlea]

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Another crook

Voted for Qatar as well 

Who in their right mind would vote for that place to hold a world cup unless there were a lot of substantial sized broon envelopes getting passed around

As a former footballer playing at the highest of level, there was never a chance his vote was cast with the game in mind.

[Stevie Reid]

Just watched a heartbreaking story on Channel 4 News about a man who was failed in shocking fashion by the police, and was kicked to death and then set on fire by a local man who mistakenly thought he was a paedophile.

That was juxtaposed in quite sickening fashion with the very next story being that corrupt ******* claiming that he was a "punchbag" and banging on about humanity and quoting Nelson Mandela. I wanted to kick the tv screen in.

The sooner this senile old goat no longer gets the opportunity to face the cameras and pedal his infuriating lies, the better. I hope the obnoxious, arrogant, despotic old prick rots in jail.

Platini can GTF as well.

[Pretty Boy]

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Just watched a heartbreaking story on Channel 4 News about a man who was failed in shocking fashion by the police, and was kicked to death and then set on fire by a local man who mistakenly thought he was a paedophile.

That was juxtaposed in quite sickening fashion with the very next story being that corrupt ******* claiming that he was a "punchbag" and banging on about humanity and quoting Nelson Mandela. I wanted to kick the tv screen in.

The sooner this senile old goat no longer gets the opportunity to face the cameras and pedal his infuriating lies, the better. I hope the obnoxious, arrogant, despotic old prick rots in jail.

Platini can GTF as well.

Well said.

[tamig]

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Just watched a heartbreaking story on Channel 4 News about a man who was failed in shocking fashion by the police, and was kicked to death and then set on fire by a local man who mistakenly thought he was a paedophile.

That was juxtaposed in quite sickening fashion with the very next story being that corrupt ******* claiming that he was a "punchbag" and banging on about humanity and quoting Nelson Mandela. I wanted to kick the tv screen in.

The sooner this senile old goat no longer gets the opportunity to face the cameras and pedal his infuriating lies, the better. I hope the obnoxious, arrogant, despotic old prick rots in jail.

Platini can GTF as well.

Exactly. It was when he said "I'm sorry..." and I was half expecting a genuine apology but he actually apologised for the game, implying it would be lost without him. What an arrogant self-centred old pillock of a man.

[Jack Hackett]

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Exactly. It was when he said "I'm sorry..." and I was half expecting a genuine apology but he actually apologised for the game, implying it would be lost without him. What an arrogant self-centred old pillock of a man.

What gets me is his claims later in the speech that he still has much support within FIFA...mainly from all the wee peripheral nations where backhanders are a way of life...not that it isn't in the so called 'developed' world...and he's right, he got enough support to get re-elected even as the scandal was breaking.

Hopefully, the investigations will unearth enough whistleblowers to see the whole house of cards collapse

[Hibs Class]

I was watching him earlier, put me in mind of Stockholm Syndrome. He has been a hostage to his own lies and sycophantic entourage for so long that he may genuinely see himself as a victim. Yet he has brought it all on himself, I think he proves that it's possible to be bad and mad at the same time. Hopefully history will judge him as he deserves to be judged.

[jgl07]

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_{disappointed re Platini, thought he was a good guy!}

Are you joking?

He is far more corrupt that Blatter. At least when Blatter was bribed to back the USA for the 2022 World Cup he stayed bribed. Platini received a bigger bribe from Qatar and lumbered everyone with a World Cup in November.

[Pete]

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all the other disgraced officials should have a whip-round and get him a shaver for xmas

What's this all about? Is it to make people feel sorry for him or something.
FFS give it up man. You're about 90 and have had decades of undeserved privilege that you will probably get away with. Learn golf or something.

Platini's is the saddest story. When I was growing up he was the best player in the world and it's tragic that temptation and greed have made him into what he is today. A real football man who could have lead the game but alas. It must be hard not to get involved if that was the decades old, ingrained culture of FIFA.

[lucky]

Plantini is in his own world, he believes in Blatter's pish but pretends he's a different to him but reality he's worse than him. Corrupt should be his middle name

[SkintHibby]

Don't care what anyone says. Politics is at work here.

I fully expect Russia to be stripped of the 2018 World Cup because it has the temerity to dare to become a world power again.

It really angers me to hear the FBI is investigating wrongdoings in FIFA. Since when did the USA become the world's policeman? They don't even give a fhrhh about 'Soccer'!!!

Blatter and Platini are merely pawns in bigger political goings on.

England and USA to rotate the World Cup for the next 100 years.

[Onion]

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Blatter seems to be losing the plot. Rambling about being above the committee and that they can't ban him because he's the president. Sounds like someone who has had his own way for quite a while now. The way an overthrown dictator might act.

Exactly The media should refuse to give him any air time and all files should be handed over to the FBI.