Eye-eye Cap'n Sepp

[cmg]

Neil D has posted this link to this week's Private Eye front page, as he says, cruel but funny - which I take the liberty of reproducing here:

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/current_issue.php?issue=1368

Somewhat less funny, but rather more important is this article from inside the magazine, which shows how our beloved, incorruptible FIFA operate:

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1368

[General]

I only found out recently on the build up the this years World Cup that FIFA dont pay any tax on their earnings when putting on these events and that despite being a not for profit organisation have £1 billion in the bank.

[LBNo11]

...I've just posted the same thing on the Friends Of Fulham facebook page.

The consistent level of corruption is disgusting, anyone else so complicit in organisational criminal acts would be subjected to judicial consequences and the perpetrators jailed.

So why does EUFA do nothing, are they tarred with the same brush, or afraid to get involved. Everything about how football is run stinks - give us back OUR sport...

[The Doctor]

I only found out recently on the build up the this years World Cup that FIFA dont pay any tax on their earnings when putting on these events and that despite being a not for profit organisation have £1 billion in the bank.

Seems to be a standard demand for big sporting events. If memory serves, the IOC have a similar arrangement with host cities. It makes you wonder what the final balance sheet looks like. If it were a purely financial decision, would potential hosts be falling over themselves for the right to stage the finals? It'd be dead funny if no one submitted bids for 2026, but I know that's highly unlikely

[LBNo11]

I only found out recently on the build up the this years World Cup that FIFA dont pay any tax on their earnings when putting on these events and that despite being a not for profit organisation have £1 billion in the bank.

Seems to be a standard demand for big sporting events. If memory serves, the IOC have a similar arrangement with host cities. It makes you wonder what the final balance sheet looks like. If it were a purely financial decision, would potential hosts be falling over themselves for the right to stage the finals? It'd be dead funny if no one submitted bids for 2026, but I know that's highly unlikely

...no surprise that the IOC and FIFA all have HQ's in Switzerland so are exempt from taxes...

[Peabody]

Blather had a good teacher, a certain Mr Havalange.