2026 World Cup Thread

FeNris said:
Nope. It's dead in the water. Without UEFA they have nothing. UEFA would not gave played this high a card unless they absolutely knew it would kill this thing dead.

Unless he backtracks or makes massive concessions, then he is finished.
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Without UEFA, FIFA is Sunday league competition.
 
FIFA must be dismantled and rebuilt. Not fit for purpose. Havelange, guilty of misappropriation of £m’s. Blatter court with hand in till, “where did he hide the money” Infantino, highest bidder wins as long as I can trouser some. Finances too opaque, voting opaque, back scratching obvious, changing rules on a whim. Jonny must go and so must FIFA.
 
forestfire_59 said:
Without UEFA, FIFA is Sunday league competition.
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Strip away the diplomatic language, the press releases and the carefully constructed governance frameworks and what remains is entirely simple: A small group of men, one Swiss-Italian with presidential ambitions beyond football, one American billionaire connected by family to the White House, and their associated advisers at JP Morgan, decided to sell an asset that does not belong to them. When the people whose asset it actually is objected, they were told to decide within 53 days or face a 75 per cent funding reduction.

This is not a governance dispute. It is an asset stripping operation conducted in plain sight.

It makes Blatter look almost competent.
 
Strett said:
Strip away the diplomatic language, the press releases and the carefully constructed governance frameworks and what remains is entirely simple: A small group of men, one Swiss-Italian with presidential ambitions beyond football, one American billionaire connected by family to the White House, and their associated advisers at JP Morgan, decided to sell an asset that does not belong to them. When the people whose asset it actually is objected, they were told to decide within 53 days or face a 75 per cent funding reduction.

This is not a governance dispute. It is an asset stripping operation conducted in plain sight.

It makes Blatter look almost competent.
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Blatter was competent though, and he certainly wasn’t on the giving end of any arse-licking. He got caught with his hand in the till but that was more down to Platini’s stupidity…
 
UEFA hoping to take down Infantino:

Statement:

"The current Fifa leadership has not only lost Uefa's confidence but also that of many other members of the football family,

When Gianni Infantino asked for the trust and the votes of Fifa's member associations to elect him as their president in 2016, he said: 'Of course we have to be transparent.'

He told the assembled stakeholders: 'The money of Fifa is your money. It's not the money of the Fifa president. You are the national associations and the money of Fifa has to serve for the development of football and not for anything else.'

On both these promises, he has failed to deliver. The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through were anything but transparent."
 
Thewolf/jimmygordon said:
UEFA hoping to take down Infantino:

Statement:

"The current Fifa leadership has not only lost Uefa's confidence but also that of many other members of the football family,

When Gianni Infantino asked for the trust and the votes of Fifa's member associations to elect him as their president in 2016, he said: 'Of course we have to be transparent.'

He told the assembled stakeholders: 'The money of Fifa is your money. It's not the money of the Fifa president. You are the national associations and the money of Fifa has to serve for the development of football and not for anything else.'

On both these promises, he has failed to deliver. The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through were anything but transparent."
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He’s bessie mates with Trump, so what do you expect. Play with slime you get slimey.
 
Blatter was brought down under corruption allegations. Now Infantino is abusing his power. The question is should one person have so much power? Personally I think the whole structure of FIFA needs to be totally reformed. The cancellation of the US red, alleged Argentinian favouritism and fawning of Trump by Infantino is embarrassing and brought the game into disrepute. He needs to be removed and never should one person be allowed to behave in such a unilateral manner. There should be some sort of committee structure, so that there will be no such repetition of this reprehensible behaviour.
 
forestfire_59 said:
Blatter was brought down under corruption allegations. Now Infantino is abusing his power. The question is should one person have so much power? Personally I think the whole structure of FIFA needs to be totally reformed. The cancellation of the US red, alleged Argentinian favouritism and fawning of Trump by Infantino is embarrassing and brought the game into disrepute. He needs to be removed and never should one person be allowed to behave in such a unilateral manner. There should be some sort of committee structure, so that there will be no such repetition of this reprehensible behaviour.
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Without Europe there is no World Cup. That’s why the other federations lined up alongside them quickly. Self interest has kept Infantino in power but it may well now bring him down.
 
Polly 433 said:
UEFA threatening Jonny and Josh with legal action. Also talk of JP Morgan and others. Could get messy.
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I wish football could just be football.
Played on a pitch.
Administered at club level.
You get points for winning or a draw, nothing else and they can't be taken away.

Just football.

These self important lawyers and businessmen have ruined it.
 
Basha73 said:
No he sucked up to Trump whose cronies saw a use for him. They will drop him like a brick now this has fallen through.
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ALLEGEDLY, Infantino offered Morocco the next World Cup final, if they vote for him to stay as president.

Not just crossed the line, he can’t see the line in his rear view mirror.
 
mao tse tung said:
Well, if you want to talk about cheating, lets have a look at the two most prominent instances in Rugby:

1. The fake blood capsule issue involving Harlequins

2. Saracens illegally breaching the salary cap and getting relegated as a consequence.

I am sure if you look into both with some depth, you will no doubt be able to find Argentinian influences at play.

You know where this all comes from: sore fucking losers trying to bring the Falklands into play.

And if its not the Argentinians its the German manager getting it in the neck

It might help if people ceased bigging up the players into something they are not - its funny how no one can bring themselves to blame the real culprits, the players.

And stop being a fucking hypocrite about 86; if an England player had have scored in that manner, there would have been a statue built for the player concerned.
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I’m sorry but you are talking fucking bollocks… Argentina actually filmed Olympic short videos on the Falklands islands to be deliberately provocative.

Albornez pushing and intimidating the ref post game leading to 4 game ban

Match fixing 78… doping water bottles 1990

Argentina are the sore fucking losers and the cretins who wank off to a cheating scumbag
 
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