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A vote of no-confidence for Sepp Blatter, please!
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12/10/05
12/06/09
Blatter: "We are in a sensitive market at the moment and there is an economic crisis. But football is a good product and we are giving people what they want."
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12/10/05
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has vowed to stop "greed ruling the world of football" and launched a blistering attack
on hugely-wealthy club owners he claims are threatening the future of football.
In an astonishing column in the Financial Times, the FIFA president says the "pornographic amounts of money" being thrown around by some club owners could suffocate the game.
He adds: "This cannot be the future of our game. FIFA cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. The time has come to take action to curb the excesses and ensure that the sport protects its roots.
"It is simply insane for any player to 'earn' £6million-£8million a year when the annual budget of even a club competing in the UEFA Champions League may be less than half that. What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?"
"Unlimited cash has given a handful of club owners the wherewithal to control the global club game by splashing unimaginable sums on a tiny group of elite players. More than ever before, the majority are fighting with spears, while the greedy few have the financial equivalent of nuclear warheads.”
In an astonishing column in the Financial Times, the FIFA president says the "pornographic amounts of money" being thrown around by some club owners could suffocate the game.
He adds: "This cannot be the future of our game. FIFA cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. The time has come to take action to curb the excesses and ensure that the sport protects its roots.
"It is simply insane for any player to 'earn' £6million-£8million a year when the annual budget of even a club competing in the UEFA Champions League may be less than half that. What logic, right or economic necessity would qualify a man in his mid-20s to demand to earn in a month a sum that his own father - and the majority of fans - could not hope to earn in a decade?"
"Unlimited cash has given a handful of club owners the wherewithal to control the global club game by splashing unimaginable sums on a tiny group of elite players. More than ever before, the majority are fighting with spears, while the greedy few have the financial equivalent of nuclear warheads.”
12/06/09
Blatter: "We are in a sensitive market at the moment and there is an economic crisis. But football is a good product and we are giving people what they want."
"It is the game of the people and full of emotions. Football needs to have stars like Ronaldo."
"Almost ten years ago, Luis Figo went from Barcelona to Real Madrid for £37m, at the same time a Picasso painting was sold for £100m at Sotherbys in London."
"But they hide that away and no one can see it. A football player is everywhere for everyone to see. They are stars."
"You can't say it's too much money because you have to make it relevant to everything else, what is £80m now? Let us be generous about it.”
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If they're not the words of a hyocrite, I'm Elvis Presley.
I've never been a big fan of Blatter and I'd like to see him try and weasel out of his own quotes should anyone be fortunate enough to confront him with them.
Isn't it about time his organisation gave him a vote of no confidence?
Other dumb comments the 71-year-old Swiss has made over the years include his threat to step in and overule the FA's automatic 3 match ban for Birmingham's Martin Taylor - having broken Eduardo's leg.
Fine, one might think, except it was Blatter himself who made up the idiotic rule that players sent off should face a fixed suspension that cannot later be overruled whatever the evidence - including if innocent.
Apart from insisting that women footballers should wear "tighter shorts" to increase the popularity of the game, in 2008, Blatter described Ronaldo as "a modern day slave".
Preposterous comments in their own right, particularly the latter - the former was more predictable coming from him, but even more so considering it's his organisation that insists on burning out its members by continually organising nonsensical and greedy cash-raising tournaments such as the African Nations Cup, Confederations Cup, Men's Olympic Soccer, Europa League, friendly quotas etc., ensuring that very few top level footballers ever get a career-break such is their congested fixture list.
Even World Cup qualifying groups are increasingly packed with idiotic pub teams such as Andorra, Faroe Islands, Belarus, and Azerbaijan - piling on even more fixture chaos when it's least wanted or required.
Of course, these players could object to playing in Europe or for their country, but then they'd live in fear of being dropped from bigger tournaments such as the European Championships or World Cup.
That's a lot more to do with "modern slavery" that not not allowing a player under contract to leave his club.
In 2007, Blatter claimed that he wanted clubs to be limited to five foreigners in their starting eleven. His argument was that football deserves special treatment because it's not like any other job:
"Workers in Europe can circulate freely but footballers are not workers," said Blatter.
"You cannot consider a footballer like any normal worker because you need 11 to play a match - and they are more artists than workers."
Anyone reading this work in an office? According to Blatter you can now regard yourselves abnormal workers divorceable from European employment laws because you work in an environment that requires a team of people to run a department.
As Blatter has already discovered, his scheme is illegal and unworkable, not to mention unethical. How can European immigrants, when offered a job, have the right to live and work in a foreign country, excluding footballers? If these plans were accepted under European Law, it wouldn't be long before bigots used the new laws to kick immigrants out of their jobs, saying it's beneficial for their company to employ only whites or muslims or christians.
Blatter is a joke, and his organisation is a joke - and his Ronaldo comments highlight his hypcorisy and to some extent irrelevance.
I can't think of a worse person to be running FIFA and I honestly don't know how he keeps his job - other than the fact that allegations of corruption within FIFA, including the surroundings leading to his own appointment, have always been rife.
For the record - I'm glad Ronaldo's gone. A great player no doubt, but his perpertual diving and childish, cry-baby antics embarrassed English football no-end. My abiding memory of Ronaldo will be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-Zqvlz3bA.
He'll be welcome in Spain, where that sort of thing is happily accepted, and if his head gets any bigger it will probably blow up. It also means Man Utd are significantly weaker without him, although obviously they have the firepower to replace him, with bells on.
"Almost ten years ago, Luis Figo went from Barcelona to Real Madrid for £37m, at the same time a Picasso painting was sold for £100m at Sotherbys in London."
"But they hide that away and no one can see it. A football player is everywhere for everyone to see. They are stars."
"You can't say it's too much money because you have to make it relevant to everything else, what is £80m now? Let us be generous about it.”
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If they're not the words of a hyocrite, I'm Elvis Presley.
I've never been a big fan of Blatter and I'd like to see him try and weasel out of his own quotes should anyone be fortunate enough to confront him with them.
Isn't it about time his organisation gave him a vote of no confidence?
Other dumb comments the 71-year-old Swiss has made over the years include his threat to step in and overule the FA's automatic 3 match ban for Birmingham's Martin Taylor - having broken Eduardo's leg.
Fine, one might think, except it was Blatter himself who made up the idiotic rule that players sent off should face a fixed suspension that cannot later be overruled whatever the evidence - including if innocent.
Apart from insisting that women footballers should wear "tighter shorts" to increase the popularity of the game, in 2008, Blatter described Ronaldo as "a modern day slave".
Preposterous comments in their own right, particularly the latter - the former was more predictable coming from him, but even more so considering it's his organisation that insists on burning out its members by continually organising nonsensical and greedy cash-raising tournaments such as the African Nations Cup, Confederations Cup, Men's Olympic Soccer, Europa League, friendly quotas etc., ensuring that very few top level footballers ever get a career-break such is their congested fixture list.
Even World Cup qualifying groups are increasingly packed with idiotic pub teams such as Andorra, Faroe Islands, Belarus, and Azerbaijan - piling on even more fixture chaos when it's least wanted or required.
Of course, these players could object to playing in Europe or for their country, but then they'd live in fear of being dropped from bigger tournaments such as the European Championships or World Cup.
That's a lot more to do with "modern slavery" that not not allowing a player under contract to leave his club.
In 2007, Blatter claimed that he wanted clubs to be limited to five foreigners in their starting eleven. His argument was that football deserves special treatment because it's not like any other job:
"Workers in Europe can circulate freely but footballers are not workers," said Blatter.
"You cannot consider a footballer like any normal worker because you need 11 to play a match - and they are more artists than workers."
Anyone reading this work in an office? According to Blatter you can now regard yourselves abnormal workers divorceable from European employment laws because you work in an environment that requires a team of people to run a department.
As Blatter has already discovered, his scheme is illegal and unworkable, not to mention unethical. How can European immigrants, when offered a job, have the right to live and work in a foreign country, excluding footballers? If these plans were accepted under European Law, it wouldn't be long before bigots used the new laws to kick immigrants out of their jobs, saying it's beneficial for their company to employ only whites or muslims or christians.
Blatter is a joke, and his organisation is a joke - and his Ronaldo comments highlight his hypcorisy and to some extent irrelevance.
I can't think of a worse person to be running FIFA and I honestly don't know how he keeps his job - other than the fact that allegations of corruption within FIFA, including the surroundings leading to his own appointment, have always been rife.
For the record - I'm glad Ronaldo's gone. A great player no doubt, but his perpertual diving and childish, cry-baby antics embarrassed English football no-end. My abiding memory of Ronaldo will be this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-Zqvlz3bA.
He'll be welcome in Spain, where that sort of thing is happily accepted, and if his head gets any bigger it will probably blow up. It also means Man Utd are significantly weaker without him, although obviously they have the firepower to replace him, with bells on.
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