what a weasel!

[WhiteJC]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1336859/Sepp-Blatter-says-England-bad-losers.html

You're just bad losers! FIFA president Sepp Blatter hits out at England just days after Russia win contest to host 2018 World Cup

Sepp Blatter has compounded England's crushing disappointment at losing the 2018 World Cup bid by branding the English 'bad losers'.

Russia was awarded the 2018 World Cup after England were humiliated, receiving only two votes despite submitting what FIFA itself deemed to be a superior technical bid.

FIFA president Blatter said: 'To be honest, I was surprised by all the English complaining after the defeat. England, of all people, the motherland of fair-play ideas.


Calm down, calm down: Sepp Blatter insists England are bad losers

'Now some of them are showing themselves to be bad losers. You can't come afterwards and say so-and-so promised to vote for England. The results are known.

The outcome came out clearly.' England's bid team in Zurich, which included Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince William and David Beckham, were confident of the votes of at least six of the 22 committee members, but the delegates failed to register their support when it mattered.

FA general secretary Alex Horne told the BBC: 'People were specifically told things that didn't come to light. If half-a-dozen people promised us a vote and we only got one then people lied to us.'


Withdrawing his application: Roger Burden

Hugh Robertson, minister for sport and the Olympics, said it was probably not a 'football-based decision' and Andy Anson, England 2018 chief executive, recommended the country does not bid again until the selection process is changed.

In addition, the acting chairman of the FA, Roger Burden, last week withdrew his application for the permanent position, saying: 'I'm not prepared to deal with people (at FIFA) whom I cannot trust.'

But, in an interview with Swiss magazine Weltwoche, to be published on Thursday, Blatter hit back at suggestions that the voting process was flawed. He went on to accuse England of arrogance and suggested the country is resistant to change.

The 74-year-old said: 'I really sense in some reactions a bit of the arrogance of the western world of Christian background.

Some simply can't bear it if others get a chance for a change.

'What can be wrong if we start football in regions where this sport demonstrates a potential which goes far beyond sport?'
England's representative on the executive committee, Geoff Thompson, told Sky News on Wednesday that 'clarification was needed' if FIFA were intent on taking the World Cup to new countries instead of more traditional venues. FIFA also awarded the 2022 World Cup to the Gulf state of Qatar.

He said: 'If that was in their mind they should have said that in the bidding documents.'

Thompson also said media coverage in English newspapers and the BBC's Panorama programme, shown just three days before the vote, 'didn't help' England's cause.

Anson has said Blatter spoke to members about the 'evils of the media' just before they cast their votes. A Sunday Times investigation led to two committee members - Nigerian Amos Adamu and Oceania member Reynald Temarii - being banned from voting and fined £6,250 and £3,125 respectively after it was alleged they offered their votes in return for money.


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But Blatter, president of FIFA since June 1998, rejected suggestions corruption is rife within the organisation.

He said: 'There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.'

He also insisted FIFA could not just act as though nothing had happened and said he wanted to establish a task force to look into 'compliance issues', without giving full details.Blatter said: 'We need to improve our image. We also need to clarify some things within FIFA.'

When asked if he would still be FIFA president and open the Qatar tournament in 2022, by which time he would be 86 years old, Blatter said: 'Definitely not. If God wills it, I will be invited to the opening party on crutches or in a wheelchair.'


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[The Equalizer]

Ah, the bane of football. A tyrant for the modern age.
:red:

[finnster01]

There are only three people in the world that can make my blood boil:
Sepp Blatter, Diego Maradona and that twit Andy Murray

[Tom]

Feck that clown blatter!

[WhiteJC]

There are only three people in the world that can make my blood boil:
Sepp Blatter, Diego Maradona and that twit Andy Murray

I thought you were going to say "Sepp Blatter, Diego Maradonna and the entire Chelsea squad"  :dft012:

[Burt]

Blatter is a corrupt arse in charge of a corrupt organisation.

Allegedly, of course.

[epsomraver]

According to 5 live this morning a new word has entered the English language and that is "to Blatter," which means to tell someone one thing and then do the opposite, so you can now say " I have been blattered"!

[sipwell]

There was rather a funny cartoon in a Belgian magazine.

It was a picture of Blatter opening an envelope and getting a picture of Putin out of it. The caption ran: "A new element in the Executive Meeting Vote: the Committee has already decided who the referee will be of the final."

[epsomraver]

There was a text going round saying that Putin had called on Blatter to give his thanks and to return his daughter unarmed!