Hope Blatter wins the vote today for 2 reasons

Firstly, it will escalate the outrage and will push more people into action against a horrible, corrupt group of people.

But, secondly, why would we want someone from Jordan as the leader of world football. Not exactly the hotbed of the game, is it?

 

Id say have an Englishman but they'd most likely pick a lardmarf Londoner ex businessman or something as corrupt.

 

Your first point is valid, not sure I agree with your second point. If FIFA's remit is to continue football's global dominance then there's no necessity for the President to be from a football hotbed. Business acumen and vision are more important.

 

Fifa president: job specification

1. Must not be bent

2. Must go on a genuine crusade to root out corruption from the organisation

There are no other requirements

 

It's a shame the other guys who went for it withdrew.

Yes, Prince Ali may not be the ideal replacement but he's much better than that old **** in charge now and would get my vote. Blatter has been given chance after chance to make FIFA corrupt free and he's making it worse.

Its a shame that Dutch fella, Michael van Praag didn't get enough backing as I think he would have been the man to take FIFA forward. Both David Ginola and Luis Figo we're never gonna get the backing they needed .

 

I agree there's no reason for the President of FIFA to be from a football hotbed. However, I'd personally prefer the FIFA president to have a long and distinguished background in football. At a push, I could concede that wasn't necessarily top priority if the candidate had the business acumen and vision that you allude to, although he/she would have to be outstanding in that area for me to think it was a good idea. Prince Hussein doesn't appear to have either.

I don't know a great deal about the bloke, he seems a decent enough fella from what I've heard, but his background is in the military. He does appear to have excelled in that career and he does seem like an intelligent bloke, but the majority of lofty positions he holds are a direct result of him being a Prince, not because of the work he's done to be promoted to those positions. That's not to say he's done a bad job when given the responsibility, but the only reason he was given the chance was because of the family he was born in to.

He appears to have taken an active interest in football relatively recently. The fact that he has risen to Vice President of FIFA so quickly is bizarre in itself, for him to get the Presidency would, imho, be loony.

Not that I'm advocating Blatter as the better candidate. In this two horse race Prince Hussein may be the better option, but I think that in itself shows what a total shambles football's governing body is in.

 

The cynic in me thinks that 'a long and distinguished background in football' equates to having received more backhanders than the other candidate.

Given some of the characters who have been allowed to take over Clubs in England I'm not sure the English FA are a shining example to hold up to the rest of the footballing world as to how to clean out the stable.

If money talks then the only way to ensure the game is saved is for the ordinary supporters to say enough is enough. The big corporates will soon turn their attention elsewhere and then we might go back to moaning about the way FA officials abuse their power by the number of Cup Final tickets they get and how it locks out the loyal supporters.

 

thereev should have stood in the FIFA vote.....it would have been sorted like this.........

i would have taken the biggest bribes going, resigned and gone off to live in Bora Bora til the end of my days.

.....however Seppy baby is greedy and wants more and more.

hth

 

Be nice to have an ex football player of the highest level in charge. But if guys like Figo and Ginola are going to pull out after the big publicity they got from being in the running, we are left to pick the best of the worst two options.

 

It's a shame Figo couldn't get the backing as he'd be ideal for it IMO.

 

Be careful what you wish for. UEFA have a top world class ex footballer running them.

 

Its already f*cked and corrupted and if he is re-elected it'll not be finished...We knew once Qatar was given world cup it was corrupt...Why should a country who noone knows be given world cup??? Always said a country in top 20 fifa rankings should be given world cup not a country who is 98th..what next? Fecking Afghanistan hosting 2026 world cup

 

Living in spitting distance to Qater, when the result was declared I was gob smacked knowing the temperatures in Summer there, could only have been bribes to a latter and Co.

 

Bloody predictive text - Blatter and Co.

 

Good points. I'm almost in the ABB camp; Anyone but Blatter. But as someone else said #1 should be that he's not bent. Thing is even if Blatter is not on the take, some bad **** has happened on his watch and in any other multibillion dollar industry, under those circumstances, the guy would fall on his sword.

 

I think in any other organisation at any level (apart from the renewable energy industry) he would be forced to stand down. Brass neck on him to remain in the running for re-election after all this latest hullabaloo hits the headlines is so bizarre that it's started to go back the other way and I'm beginning to admire just how thick skinned he is. If scientists discover FIFA are solely responsible for global warming he'd just carry on regardless.

Not better illustration of how ridiculous the situation is than this:

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