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Eh, that Sepp Blatter's a right card, and no mistake, guv'nor
It takes a special kind of idiot to make world football look even more corrupt, risible and out of touch with reality that it might already be.
Sepp Blatter is exactly that kind of idiot.
Answers on a postcard, please...
UPDATE: some readers have not yet seen that everyone's favourite corrupt comedy foreigner has opened his mouth and said, quoting the BBC Sport web site:
Asked whether he thought racism on the pitch was a problem in modern-day football, Blatter told CNN World Sport: "I would deny it. There is no racism.
"There is maybe one of the players towards another - he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one.
"But the one who is affected by that, he should say 'this is a game'. We are in a game, and at the end of the game, we shake hands, and this can happen, because we have worked so hard against racism and discrimination."
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What's he done...
... now?
I always imagine that when Sepp Blatter leaves a room...
he leaves a trail of slime behind him.
certainly
begins with a c
I was reading this story
on the Telegraph's site. Some of the comments it generated are way beyond belief.
I'm trying to think of
something witty to say in the spirit of the "Meaning of Cliff" thread
Sepp Blatter: the sound of ignorance and stupidity being forced together under the weight of incompetence
I'm sure you can do better
Sepp Blatter: the Silvio Berlusconi of football
It's not an exact analogy, as Berlusconi was (somehow) elected to power three times - I think the Italian people will look back on his time in office and ask themselves "WTF were we thinking??" That aside, though you have the same venality, the same bland assurances, the same ridiculing of any doubters, the same blithe insouciance over the most serious and legitimate concerns, the same apparent impermeability to criticism. Blatter is a tool of the most monumental proportions. Scarily, there's no guarantee that his eventual successor won't be worse. Gulp...
An Ode
(after Dr. Seuss)
"Please, someone tell me what is the matter?"
Croaked the toady imperious booby Old Blatter,
"It's all just a game at the end of the day,
There's nothing to see, hear or say."
The silly Old Blatter, he didn't like a fuss
He much preferred leaving his brain in a truss.
How else to explain his nonsensical remarks,
Part of his ongoing commitment to making football a farce?
"Sticks and stones, they break your bones!"
"Oh, such wise words," muttered his FIFA clones.
But it's words Old Blatter that often go deepest
Taunts, slurs and cuts about race being the bleakest
So here are some words for the old Swiss Fool
Tidings to consider for all his years of misrule.
Racism's not natural, it's something that's taught,
The bedfellow of ignorance, his sole legacy in sport.
wow
that's amazing!
I have no interest in football...
...but I have a lot of interest in Sepp Blatter! Of course, the real Sepp Blatter is long dead and was replaced some time ago with a robot whose mission it is to parody Sepp Blatter in more and more outrageous ways, in order to prove the theory that no parody of Sepp Blatter could ever be implausible.
Here's his theme song.
(Harvey Danger, Cream And Bastards Rise)
To use an erudite phrase from the Brick/Radio/TV thread...
Knob.
Is this a good moment
To ask why, given that we all believe FIFA to be corrupt, backwards, racist, sexis and hompophobic, we continue to have anything to do with them?
They're not a democratically accountable organisation and there's no sign that things will change. Even if Blatter exits the scene someone else from the FIFA 'family' will step in and we'll be treated to more of the same.
In my view, if you think an organisation is utterly repugnant you should generally cease having anything to do with them if at all possible. It's a bit rich to criticise them from the sidelines while continuing to participate in the gravy train.
Does anyone have any idea what it would actually mean if we were to cut all ties? I'd assume that World Cup and European Championship participation would immediately be up in smoke. To be honest, I can live with that - International football has never been less popular in this country and the World Cup has become a pale shadow of its former self.
Would it have any impact at all on the domestic game? Anyone have any ideas?
It would be fairly catastrophic
Membership of FIFA is tied to our membership of UEFA (one of the six member confederations of FIFA). If we were to secede from the former, we would also have to leave the latter. It then wouldn't just be international competition we'd be excluded from: there would be be no European competition places for domestic sides.
You can see what would happen then...
Spain
At the moment it would probably take a country like Spain to take the lead in some sort of action/breakaway. But it seems that the Spanish powers that be may not be too far ahead of SB in their grasp of the 21st century.
He'll get away with it...
football is a strange netherworld of dubious practices that seems to operate with different laws and morals to the rest of society.
I mean John Terry is still England Captain isn't he...?
A wit of the f**k variety.
Sepp Blatter is a stupid old man. He is goes around in a bubble oblivious to the modern society and what is right and what is not. This latest pronouncement and his subsequent justification of it (not once but twice Sepp fans) is beyond belief.
I am glad that the majority of people in this country (given or take teh odd Daily Mail 'journalist' and the fascist idiots who frequent the Mail and Telegraph message boards have treated Blatter's remarks with utter contempt.
Racism is still alive in football both on and off the pitch. I am ashamed to say some half wit supporters of my own team (Truro City) have been heard (by me) saying some totally uncalled for and altogether racist things about our own black players. Of course Sepp would say it was just a joke but the underlying message is the same. It is racist.
We need to stand up to Blatter and tell him that this is not acceptable.
A very wise man (Edmund Burke) once said:
'For evil to triumph all that is necessary is that good men (people) do nothing'.
We are good people. it is time to shout.