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A week after 74 people were killed and hundreds more injured when Al-Masry fans attacked Al-Ahly
supporters in Port Said, Egypt, FIFA has decided to do something. The nonprofit governing body
which turned a $631 million profit between 2007 and 2010, announced it will donate $250,000 to the
families of the victims.
Prosecutors have accused Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp of taking bungs (bribes) in an offshore
tax dodge. Harry Redknapp arriving at Southwark Crown Court yesterday That was the news yesterday
in the first day of his trial, and the prosecutors will today call their first witnesses. Redknapp
is accused of putting about £189K into a Monaco [.
After being caught on video offering bribes to Caribbean officials, former CONCACAF president
and FIFA executive committee member Jack Warner is on the warpath.
Warner continues to respond to allegations against him the Trinidad and Tobago media, where a
lengthy letter was published on Tuesday.
We all understand that agents, and indeed all middle people, are leeches on the sport of football,
grabbing their inflated percentages while skirting between the black and grey markets, bribing and
threatening people and corrupting the game.
They force players to adhere to certain match data as basic sabermetrics measures the obvious, they
enter into third party arrangements and other forms of disguised dual ownership of players to
confuse both the footballing authorities and the tax regime, they control aspects of the media
sometimes psychopathically so, and many persuade players to underperform so that insider gambles
may be achieved on what the fan thinks is an authentic football match.
FIFA's case against some 15 Caribbean countries began yesterday in the whole bin Hammam/Warner
bribery for votes. Caribbean Football Union VP Klass has already been banned for 26mo and slapped
on the wrist and been told he was naughty. And by naughty, I mean fined $5000, but when you receive
nearly $40,000 in bribes that you never account for, what is $5000?
Bin Hammam hits out at FIFA over bribes ban
Qatari claims FIFA would never have dared to take action against him if he were European
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A news article on 2011-09-06 10:50:43 from: The Mirror
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By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Aug 25, 2011) US Soccer Players -- Former FIFA presidential
candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has responded to FIFA's fuller explanation of why they chose to ban
him for life over a votes for bribes scandal centered around Caribbean countries. Before the
collective eye roll that will likely greet another column on FIFA politics, it's worth keeping in
mind who that serves.
Another reason to dissolve CONCACAF?:
ZURICH (AP) -- Caribbean soccer leaders were given 48 hours by FIFA to explain their
part in a Trinidad meeting where Mohamed bin Hammam allegedly offered them bribes or face life bans
from the sport.
Caribbean Football Union members have been asked for their "truthful and complete" versions of
events, FIFA said Tuesday.
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Cash was for expenses not bribes, claims furious Bin Hammam
"We did not do anything wrong," says banned Asian football chief
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A news article on 2011-07-24 12:41:25 from: The Mirror
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The FIFA Ethics Committee formally found Mohamed Bin Hammam guilty in a votes for bribes scandal on
Saturday, receiving a lifetime ban and ending his association with world soccer. Bin Hammam was the
president of the Asian Football Confederation and a FIFA presidential candidate. He stood accused
of trading cash for presidential votes at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union.
Warner And Hammam: Guilty As Charged? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The BBC has obtained a document authored by the Carribean Football Union (CFU) detailing claims
that Jack Warner had full knowledge of and participated in the distribution of cash bribes to
members of the CFU at a special meeting promoting Mohamed Bin Hammam's Fifa presidential bid.
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On this week's roundup, even the women are doing it: England's women's team crash out of the
World Cup – on penalties! The Newscorp scandal: how could it affect English football? And the
woman who accused three FIFA members of taking bribes to vote for Qatar 2022 withdraws her claim,
but even the withdrawal smacks of suspicion.
British sports journalist Andrew Warshaw has reported in the Inside World Football newsletter that
sources close to the FIFA Ethics Committee's case against Asian Football Confederation President
Mohamed bin Hammam "have indicated" that the Qatari, accused of paying cash bribes to 25 Caribbean
FIFA members in exchange for votes, "will almost certainly be banned for life and be forced to go
to
Jack Warner sat in a corner, eating bribes and hey ......
A five figure annual pension for the rest of his life given by FIFA. Not to mention FIFA dropped
their investigation after his resignation. He also gave the finger to former FBI chief Louis
Freeh's investigation into the alleged CFU votes for cash bribery case which led to Mohammed Bin
Hammam being suspended from all football related activities.
FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner, whom allegations of corruption were made, has resigned from his
post at football's world governing body. Any chance that this move could be seen as a positive
development within the upper echelons of the game have been completely overridden by the words
expressed by FIFA itself in the aftermath of his resignation.
By CALEB SONNELAND
It can only go from bad to worse for FIFA and its continued war against corruption.
Currently suspended FIFA vice president Jack Warner claims he has no intention of meeting with
investigators looking into the bribery allegations surrounding the troubled organization.
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This blog is at heart about my love affair with soccer, an affair that is unwavering after five or
six years. From very early on I became aware of the corruption that has been in our game and that
is in our game at a high level. I was more properly informed about it after reading Andrew
Jennings' book, Foul!
Defender's header back to keeper is too hot to handle If goalkeeper Diego Barreto, of Paraguyan
side Cerro Porteno, was taking bribes you would hope he would do a better job of concealing his
actions that this. That worryingly leads us to conclude that this howler must be down to human
error. Somehow Barreto finds [.
It should go without saying that if you are looking for the best writing on the current car
crash that is FIFA at the moment, you should probably be following, amongst others, Matt
Scott, David Conn and Paul Kelso on Twitter, to say the
least.
Chuck Blazer's, FIFA's USA member whistleblowing has irked the CFU
In all of the talk of FIFA "reform" and "breakaways", let us not lose sight of CONCACAF as one
of the most dysfunctional regional associations.
After all, this "crisis" was precipitated by Chuck Blazer's whistleblowing of $40,000
bribes being paid out in a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) arranged by Jack Warner in
lieu of votes for Mohammed Bin Hammam, the challenger to Sepp Blatter.
By Chris Wright
In an interview with German press agency DPA, Argentinian FIFA ExCo member Julio Grandona
started by pissing and whining about the relentless attacks on 'the FIFA family' by the English
media, denied being glad-handed by the Qatar 2022 team in return for his vote and then went on to
implicate himself in perhaps the largest-scale bribe ever to have taken place within the governing
body's corridors of power:
"Yes, I voted for Qatar, because a vote for the US (who were beaten by Qatar in the race to host
the 2022 finals) would be like a vote for England and that is not possible.
To say today was a rollercoaster is understatement. With everyone in FIFA backstabbing each other,
some little bits slipped through most of the media cracks.As many of you know, serial klepto, Jack
Warner (former pres of Concacaf) was suspended from all football actions indefinitely. His
replacement, a one Lisle Austin, who also claimed they never received any bribes despite several
federations
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The FIFA/CONCACAF corruption mess just keeps getting uglier and uglier.
Just days after blowing the whistle on alleged bribes involving then-CONCACAF President Jack
Warner and FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam, Chuck Blazer has been fired by the man
who has temporarily replaced Warner as the head of CONCACAF.
Welcome one and all! Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and Girls!To the The AmazingJack Warner - Sepp Blatter - Mohamed Bin Hammam
FIFA Flea Circus!FIFA is nearing fully chaotic meltdown with new scandals being thrown around almost everyday. Its
like the greatest circus of all time.
He maybe a bit of a fascist but he's made the IOC a cleaner organization
FIFA is imploding from within as each passing minute brings about more and more details of
corruption with Jack Warner deciding to turn whistle blower. It's all a bit rich coming from a man
who has millions profiting from his position within the FIFA hierarchy.
Maybe that crazy old dude was right about the apocalypse. Look:Spurs make it to the CL Semis,Barca
defeats Man U handidly in the CL Finals,bin Hammam drops out of the FIFA Presidency election,and
then this...Jack Warner provisionally suspended from FIFA.What?!And one of the best parts? A
Blatter says that Warner knew about the bribes and Warner says its a conspiracy by America.
FIFA cleared the re-election of Sepp Blatter as FIFA president today.
"No investigation against Blatter is warranted," according to Petrus Damaseb, the
ethics committee deputy chairman.
A full inquiry into Mohammed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner having made bribes to the Caribbean
Football Union officials in exchange for their votes in the presidential elections will be
conducted later till which time both executive members are suspended.
By ADAM SERRANO
Sepp Blatter has lost his lone competitor for the FIFA presidency.
Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed Bin Hammam withdrew his bid to become the
president of FIFA just a day before he is to stand before the FIFA ethics committee due to
allegations of bribery.
Scandinavian misbehaving no, Finland is not technically a part of Scandinavia, but...come on
seems to come in bulk. The Swedes spent some time in trouble yesterday, earning a timeout for the
masses, and the Finns, while at it for some time, just keep riding the slippery slope.
Of all the places, Finland is mired in a huge bribery scandal, with layers being peeled back by
the day.
Update: The FIFA Ethics Committee has opened proceedings against Jack Warner and Mohammed Bin
Hammam over possible charges of bribery (official FIFA statement). The committee is due to meet
(and most likely decide) on May 29th, just a couple of days before the June 1 elections date (and
funnily enough, on a Sunday, right after the Champions League final).
DOHA, Qatar Qatar has welcomed an investigation into alleged corruption in its victorious 2022
World Cup bid. The 2022 host nation said the evidence put forward so far was false, unsubstantiated
and coming from a whisteblower who is probably a former employee "with a significant axe to grind."
Qatar has been on the defensive [.
LONDON, England The English Football Association (FA) is to abstain from voting in the upcoming
FIFA presidential election between Sepp Blatter and Mohamed Bin Hammam, it was announced Thursday.
FA chairman David Bernstein said in a statement there were a "range of issues" which made it
"difficult" to vote for incumbent Blatter or Asian [.
This isn't a post about the World Cup bidding process fix we all knew was in and we are just
starting to learn the details about, but a follow-up to Monday's discussion of Fifa's supposedly
aggressive initiative to tackle match-fixing around the world.
It's been admitted by Fifa that hundreds of games have been fixed in the past few years.
So, FIFA and Interpol have united to crack down on match-fixing. Sepp Blatter is concerned that
if money influences the game, then people will lose respect for the sport. Forget kettles. Forget
pots. Let's just all cover our mouths, contain our laughter, and fight the tears flowing from our
eye sockets.
Let's not get carried away by the shock of the match-fixing scandal. A cap on foreign players in
Veikkausliiga isn't the answer.
When Timo Soini coined his ever more popular catch phrase "Missä EU, siellä ongelma" (Where
there is the EU, there are problems), he created a brilliant out on any tough question regarding
his European politics.
An interesting piece was sent to me about corruption in FIFA. Yeah, that is nothing new but I
thought it was a good read. In the picture you can see FIFA President Blatter (left) sharing a
drink with alleged Russian criminal Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (right) and Russian World Cup bid member
Viacheslav Koloskov at a Moscow nightclub in 2005.
*** Hundreds of ticket holders were locked out of Qatar's Khalifa Stadium for the AFC Asian Cup
final between Japan and Australia on Saturday. The Qatari organizers acknowledged that the
gates to the stadium had been shut well in advance of kick-off, causing many fans to be denied
entry and miss the entire match.
