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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #150 on: 28 June, 2015, 01:13:26 pm »
Far more dramatic than the World Cup.  I bags the film rights.

I think you'll find there are ways of doing that.

Fifa film flops at the box office


If only they had waited..

Ben Affleck has stolen my thunder:

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The American side of the FIFA scandal is getting the movie treatment with Ben Affleck among those bringing story to the big the screen.

Capping off eight days of negotiations, Warner Bros. has won a bidding war for Houses of Deceit, a book by BuzzFeed investigative reporter Ken Bensinger that is being seen as the definitive account of American FIFA exec Chuck Blazer and his role in the largest sports and public corruption scandal in history.


http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/affleck-damon-to-coproduce-fifa-scandal-movie-based-on-book-house-of-deceit/article7361033.ece

Somehow I don't see Matt Damon as Sepp Blatter, though.
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« Reply #151 on: 21 July, 2015, 05:43:30 am »
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #152 on: 21 July, 2015, 07:54:28 am »
Disgraceful?  It was hilarious :)

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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #153 on: 21 July, 2015, 08:07:43 am »
Pah!  Abbie Hoffman did it on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, with real $100 bills.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #154 on: 22 July, 2015, 09:34:51 am »
Disgraceful scenes during FIFA press conference:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/20/sepp-blatter-fifa-dollar-bills-press-conference-lee-nelson

Disgraceful?

Being showered with money from the sky is just a typical start to the day for Blatter.

He was only pissed off because he could tell it wasn't as much as usual.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #155 on: 25 September, 2015, 03:45:12 pm »
The Swiss have taken Blatter in for questioning and Platini is also implicated in a 2,000,000 swiss franc bung.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/25/sepp-blatter-criminal-investigation-swiss-attorney-general
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #156 on: 25 September, 2015, 04:33:16 pm »
Crikey!
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« Reply #157 on: 25 September, 2015, 07:45:53 pm »

Time for the Alzheimers defence?

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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #158 on: 27 September, 2015, 08:39:41 am »
Followed by the Janner and Saunders recovery?
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #159 on: 29 September, 2015, 06:40:22 pm »
Jack Warner has just been banned from foopball for life, so I expect he'll now be going off somewhere warm to spend more time with his family money.
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« Reply #160 on: 29 September, 2015, 10:12:32 pm »
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« Reply #161 on: 02 October, 2015, 10:16:36 pm »
Visa, McDonalds and Pepsi Coke calling for Bladder's immediate resignation.
I wonder how long he'll hang on now.


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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #162 on: 07 October, 2015, 06:06:22 pm »
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #163 on: 28 October, 2015, 05:57:56 pm »
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #164 on: 03 December, 2015, 11:44:23 pm »
Two FIFA presidents of vice - I'm sorry, I'll say that again...

Two FIFA vice-presidents have had their collars felt by the Swiss fuzz today, and they are on a list of a further 16 officials (on top of the ones already charged) named in a 92-page indictment released by the US Department of Justice. It's yet another gift that keeps on giving.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34991874
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #165 on: 04 December, 2015, 07:47:42 am »
Strewth !  How many FIFA executives are there ? It won't be long before it's just the Legal and Ethics people left (and there can't have been too many of them in the first place).
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« Reply #166 on: 04 December, 2015, 05:17:45 pm »
Maybe it's just my suspicious nature but I'm beginning to think there may have been some "shady goings-on" within FIFA.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #167 on: 04 December, 2015, 05:49:11 pm »
No kidding... ;D
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #168 on: 22 December, 2015, 09:14:48 am »
Now Sepp Blatter has been banned from football for eight years, I wonder what he will do with his Sunday mornings.

Maybe he could buy a bike.  He probably has enough money resting in his account.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #169 on: 22 December, 2015, 09:18:45 am »
He won't have to buy a bike.

Someone will give him one.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #170 on: 22 December, 2015, 03:00:55 pm »
He won't have to buy a bike.

Someone will give him one.

When he asked for a double-entendre someone gave him one.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #171 on: 13 January, 2016, 06:28:34 pm »
The latest sacking; http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/13/fifa-sacks-suspended-secretary-general-jerome-valcke
Anyone want to run a book on Sepp and his mate Jerome clubbing together and setting up their own alternative Fifa, backed by the FAs of the developing nations?
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #172 on: 13 January, 2016, 06:33:45 pm »
Where would their oodles of cash come from?  I suspect even Nike and Coca Cola won't touch them with a bargepole now.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #173 on: 13 January, 2016, 06:44:19 pm »
Where would their oodles of cash come from?

Poor people.  If someone makes oodles, this is always where it actually comes from.
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Re: The FIFA row...
« Reply #174 on: 26 February, 2016, 06:24:05 pm »
New FIFA president elected, and not Sheikh Yerbouti either, but rather one Gianni Infantino, a.k.a. "Who?"
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