Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
07-06-2015, 10:01
|
#76
|
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,308
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
You obviously don't pick your friends very well old boy. 
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
|
07-06-2015, 10:05
|
#77
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Right here!
Posts: 22,316
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris
Again ... The US justice system has a remarkable track record when it comes to getting people to spill the beans.
|
Is that because the sentences are far more severe and the system far more rigorous for the accused and those found guilty? If you know you're going down for 20-30 years (and won't be serving just a fraction of that) as would happen here) there's a huge incentive to do a deal in return for a lesser sentence or even immunity from prosecution. You get let off, the bad guys get done and there's plenty of kudos to be shared around those responsible for the prosecution, many if whom are elected IIRC and rely on being seen to be getting results.
It's all a bit vague but I recall reading, in connection with the case of a UK citizen put on trial in the states some years ago, that the US prosecutors throw everything possible at those in the dock to raise the stakes and rely on the likelihood that the accused will decide to accept some guilt rather than risk arguing their innocence and getting a massive sentence. The pressure to do this is far greater, apparently, than in the UK system.
|
|
|
|
|
07-06-2015, 22:39
|
#78
|
|
Remoaner
Cable Forum Team
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 32,228
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Quote:
Originally Posted by Osem
Is that because the sentences are far more severe and the system far more rigorous for the accused and those found guilty? If you know you're going down for 20-30 years (and won't be serving just a fraction of that) as would happen here) there's a huge incentive to do a deal in return for a lesser sentence or even immunity from prosecution. You get let off, the bad guys get done and there's plenty of kudos to be shared around those responsible for the prosecution, many if whom are elected IIRC and rely on being seen to be getting results.
|
It's my impression as well that politics is never far away from the justice system in America. Especially at the federal level. I think it's even the case that local police chiefs and prosectors are elected as you mentioned. Bit dodgy imo.
|
|
|
|
|
07-06-2015, 23:42
|
#79
|
|
Permanently Banned
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 34
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
FIFA has ruined money.
|
|
|
|
|
08-06-2015, 22:58
|
#80
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Right here!
Posts: 22,316
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Quote:
The BBC can reveal that the former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has been investigated by US prosecutors over the disappearance of money meant for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
He visited the country in 2010 and raised $750,000 from FIFA and the Korean Football Association to help rebuild the country after the disaster.
|
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-33056234
Oh dear...
|
|
|
|
|
09-06-2015, 06:11
|
#81
|
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,308
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Russia & Qatar 'may have bought votes'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33044932
Quote:
Russia and Qatar may have had to pay bribes to secure their World Cups, Sepp Blatter's former special advisor has suggested.
Guido Tognoni worked "extremely closely" with the Fifa president during Blatter's second term.
"In Fifa, for many years, you could only reach your goal by taking dollars in your hands," Tognoni told BBC Sport.
|
The revelations are coming out more and more as the days roll by.
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
|
|
09-06-2015, 07:22
|
#82
|
|
vox populi vox dei
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: the last resort
Services: every thing
Posts: 13,739
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Quote:
Originally Posted by denphone
|
"may have" 
__________________
To be or not to be, woke is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous wokedome, Or to take arms against a sea of wokies. And by opposing end them.
|
|
|
|
|
09-06-2015, 10:10
|
#83
|
|
-
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone
Posts: 26,536
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
In the meantime, with impeccable timing, a FIFA backed film that seems to present a very rose-tinted view of FIFA's own history has come out, and flopped.
|
|
|
|
|
09-06-2015, 11:42
|
#84
|
|
Perfect Soldier
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Worthing West Sussex
Age: 66
Services: VM 500M SH3 thingy
in modem mode
XL TV V6 Sony Bravia smart TV and M phone
Posts: 10,995
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Sport genre?
More like fantasy. 
__________________
History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
However history will change with my coronation - Mariemaia Khushrenada
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2015, 19:25
|
#85
|
|
Still REIGNING
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Hell
Age: 48
Posts: 5,956
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
|
|
|
|
|
11-06-2015, 08:59
|
#86
|
|
Perfect Soldier
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Worthing West Sussex
Age: 66
Services: VM 500M SH3 thingy
in modem mode
XL TV V6 Sony Bravia smart TV and M phone
Posts: 10,995
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
I doubt any of the shenanigans will be in the "official" books. It all depends on what data the police have been "allowed" to see.
Had they swooped and taken away all the computers for forensic examination including the deleted files* it would be a different story IMO.
*PC's don't actually delete stuff, the OS just marks the space as available storage.
__________________
History is much like an endless waltz: The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever.
However history will change with my coronation - Mariemaia Khushrenada
|
|
|
|
|
12-06-2015, 09:21
|
#87
|
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,308
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Quote:
Originally Posted by devilincarnate
|
And of this.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...friendly-qatar
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
|
|
12-06-2015, 21:38
|
#88
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Age: 45
Posts: 13,996
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
Half expect the Argentines implicated to try raising the Falklands as a distraction and blame it on some British plot.
|
|
|
|
|
14-06-2015, 16:43
|
#89
|
|
Inactive
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Crawley
Posts: 14,025
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
|
|
|
|
|
14-06-2015, 17:23
|
#90
|
|
Still alive and fighting
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: In the land of beyond and beyond.
Services: XL BB, 3 360 boxes , XL TV.
Posts: 56,308
|
Re: Blatter presides over new FIFA crisis
He will not wriggle his way out of this one though.
__________________
“The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself”
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 04:50.
|
Join CF
You are here: 
