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Another one. Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi, head of the Thai Football Association, has been suspended from football activity for 90 days. He is accused of an unspecified breach of the organisation's ethics code.
Steps in the right direction I guess but hopefully this won't drag on for months and months.
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Ha, apparently there is no written contract for the money that Blatter apparently owed Platini. If you owe someone £1.3m, or you're going to work for someone on the provision that you get paid later, you get a contract surely. There's nothing though, so no wonder it's being investigated.
I expect this will drag on for the 90 days, but hopefully not. Sooner the better. All the top guys need to leave, it has to be a complete overhaul to be a reform.
Two new names have now been added to the list of FIFA officials who are being investigated - Germany legend Beckenbauer and Spain's football head Villar as both have refused to co-operate with the investigations into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Beckenbauer, was on the executive committee which awarded the 2022 finals to Qatar and claimed last year that FIFA's chief investigator Michael J Garcia had "no power whatsoever" to make him comply to his probe into the controversial 2010 decision. Suspicious? Very.
Don't understand why with all this going on that you wouldn't comply with an investigation... that just makes you look guilty, like you have something to hide.
Must say, it's quite funny watching FIFA fall apart like this. Been so blatantly corrupt for so long it's about time someone started doing something about it for the good of the game.
Domino effect - once one goes, they all go! For far too long there has been disgusting amounts of money in football which will only bring out the leaches looking for a piece of the pie. There is no transparency on their earnings & what money FIFA has gets spent on. The way they dealt failed to deal with the racism in football goes to show as powerful as they think they are, they have no real power. They are like footballers, in their own bubble where they think money can buy you anything & that they are untouchable. Hope the whole football house comes crumbling down. Bring back the old days where they earned what the average Joe was earning.
Things just get better the more that comes out. Blatter has revealed that they'd agreed to give Russia the 2018 World Cup before the voting even took place - yet he still claims to not be corrupt... Okay then.
The big news today - and possibly the biggest news in football history - FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini have been banned from football for eight years by FIFA's Ethics Committee.
They're still banging on about how they had a gentlemans agreement for this £1.3m payment that took 9 years to pay.
No word from Platini yet, but Blatter isn't exactly taking it gracefully, making a point that he is still the FIFA President and that the Ethics Committee don't have the right to remove him from power.
"I am ashamed about the committee's decision - and that they don't go to the evidence. I tell you they have no right to go against the president. The president of FIFA can only be relieved of his activities by the FIFA congress."
"At the next congress, the 27 February, before the election of the new president, even suspended I am president and the president must be first relieved of his duties."
"I am still the president. We have put in this ethics committee to work on the ethical behaviour."
"But if they deny an evidence and they try to build up something that is not true because there is a principle. They have to prove it. But something what is not true cannot be proven and if it cannot be proven, cannot be guilty."
The last one made me laugh... they've repeatedly been told by the Ethics Committee to prove what this payment was for, but they can't as all they had was a "gentlemans agreement"... but he wants the Ethics Committee to prove it. Er, no... you prove that you're innocent from something that looks guilty. If you can't provide the evidence that just shows the Ethics Committee that you're guilty, not that you're innocent because they can't find the proof that corruption hasn't happened. That's not how it works Blatter!
Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke have all been suspended by FIFA's ethics committee for 90 days as investigations continue over their conduct. Finally.
Personally I thought the fact that Blatter wouldn't stand down early, despite calls from their top sponsors, just showed his guilt. I don't get it... if you genuinely think that you're not guilty and have nothing to hide, what's the harm in stepping down early with a nice farewell speech? Staying and refusing to resign early screams of guilty to me as he's desperately clinging on, probably trying to destroy any trace amounts of evidence that there is left. Can't do that now though, so it'll be interesting to see what comes next.
Glad that Platini has been suspended as well. I can't see how putting him in charge would bring about this reform that they keep talking about. He's known as a long-time associate of Blatter, a friend, etc. Like he didn't know what was going on... I refuse to believe that for a second. You can keep things from some people, but Platini has worked too closely with Blatter previously not to know. And then there's this whole £1.3m payment business - apparently payment for unpaid work he did as Blatters advisor between 1999 and 2002. Got paid in 2011 for it. Urm, sure, that's what the money was for. Can imagine how that conversation went.
"Here's a bung, £1.3m just to keep things sweet. World Cups going here, votes coming my way, no backlash at all".
"But surely someone would notice £1.3m being paid to me?"
"Don't worry about it. That time where you were my advisor, we'll just say that it was meant to be a paid role and now we're paying you for it in full 9 years later".
"Sounds like a plan. God I love money I-MEAN-FIFA!"
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