FIFA

[WoodleyRoyal]

[ZacNaloen]

I want to see an apology for Lord Triesman who said this was going on and promptly fired from the WC committee.

[Kitsondinho]

[Uke]

[Royal Rother]

Fingers crossed this goes all the way.

But careful..... Victor will be along soon to call us Little Englanders and Johnny Foreigner merchants again.

[TFF]

I'd like to see the pcunt nailed to a cross

[AthleticoSpizz]

Wake me up when it's all over.

The only thing that will change this is..........you

[Winston Smith]

Blatter suspended by FIFA

[Green]

The news that everyone's waiting for but the more this drags on the more you realise this organisation is rotten to the core.

Just close it down and start again.

[Uke]

Fifa has provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days.

Taking Sepp past the end of his term, killing any hope Platini had of taking over and leaving the field open for the Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34474231

[Sutekh]

Blatter suspended by FIFA

And it took them 2 weeks to do that ..... shambLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLs

And can't say I'm too upset about Platini being suspended as well.

Really and truly ALL FA's should be talking to each other about setting up a new world organisation to replace FIFA. But no they'll all wait while the untrustworthy mess that remains tries to clean itself up.

[Winston Smith]

For as much as we lolz at FIFA & Blatter, it's easy to forget how many national FA's and football loving public around the world actually think they are great.

[Angry Shed Sex]

For as much as we lolz at FIFA & Blatter, it's easy to forget how many national FA's and football loving public around the world actually think they are great.

They should all learn English and subscribe to the Sunday Times.

[PieEater]

The FA withdrawing support for Platini over new information they got from his lawyers. Presumably this is something to do with some back hander for him voting for Qatar or against us?

[Royal Rother]

Dunno why that might be the case but it's certainly odd....

The move follows a Uefa meeting on Thursday where FA officials were given further information surrounding a £1.35million payment to Platini in 2011 from Fifa president Sepp Blatter which has led to both men being provisionally banned pending an ethics committee hearing.

An FA statement said: "At the Uefa meeting the FA learnt more information relating to the issues at the centre of this case from Mr Platini's lawyers. We have been instructed that the information must be kept confidential and therefore we cannot go into specifics.

[Far from the royal crowds]

Now Platini has gone public with his side of the story, I don't see how anyone could doubt his integrity.

Platini claims Blatter asked to see him before the 1998 World Cup in France and wanted the Frenchman to become Fifa president, with Blatter taking over as general secretary. "I wasn't interested," said Platini. "I was focused on the World Cup and didn't see myself as president." He says the pair met again two months later, with Blatter asking Platini to become his football adviser and enquiring how much money he wanted. Platini added: "I said 'a million'. 'A million what?' 'Whatever you want: roubles, pounds, dollars.' He said, 'OK, 1m Swiss francs a year.' Incredible though it may sound, that's what happened."

He says that he "worked for several months" without any payment and was told by Blatter that he could not earn three times the salary of the general secretary, who was paid 300,000 Swiss francs.
Platini claims a contract for 300,000 Swiss francs was agreed, on the basis Fifa "would pay the balance later" but "later never came" so he called in the debt.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/34569672

[John Madejski's Wallet]

[Kitsondinho]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/34597198

[floyd__streete]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/

Beyond parody. I am not convinced that this isn't the work of Chris Morris (not the former Eire international).

Reported.....for peaceful protest against an organisation which no-one trusts or respects

[floyd__streete]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34603517

Apologies, complete link above ^