Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Sims » Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:39 pm

Do you reckon Spurs’ stadium will get the nod over ours?

The transfer links to their ground is f***ing atrocious mind
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby UFGN » Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:45 pm

StLGooner wrote:
UFGN wrote:
StLGooner wrote:
UFGN wrote:
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Phil71 wrote:
UFGN wrote:England on standby

We could host it at a moments notice


That would be great.



I second this emotion. Bring it home! Not my home of course, your home, but I like your home, so yea! :1970_two_smileys_drinking_beer_together.gif:


USA more likely to get it because you were one of the candidates beaten by Qatar



But didn't we already get one after that? I think they awarded one of them to North America, meaning, us, Canada, and Mexico. Or was that just talk?


Ah yes

One of the other beaten candidates then

But I do honestly feel that England deserves one and has been unfairly frozen out by Fifa.


I agree! England just seems so obvious, because there isn't even a question about if you can support it or not. You're probably better suited than anyone else in the world. But maybe that's the problem, your too obvious of a choice and FIFA feels like they have to make some kind of great diversity decision by giving it to some kind of 3rd world country. IDK, they make weird choices sometimes, I guess it's about the money. Who knows!


Well we can say as a matter of fact its all about money and corruption. The FBI and the Swiss police have between them arrested most of FIFA and now Platini as well
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby UFGN » Tue Jun 18, 2019 12:47 pm

Sims wrote:Do you reckon Spurs’ stadium will get the nod over ours?

The transfer links to their ground is f***ing atrocious mind


London Stadium would get it.

Ours would be preferred over spuds because of transport links
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Nuggets » Tue Jun 18, 2019 4:17 pm

Never liked Platini arrogant git, hope he gets 20 years.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Zenith » Tue Jun 18, 2019 5:33 pm

Meanwhile foreign (and often illegal) construction workers are dying by the thousands (literally) as a result of having to toil under inhumane circumstances.

It is estimated that, by 2022, the death count will have surpassed the 4000-mark.

Blatter, Platini and co have more blood on their hands than 100 serial killers combined.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Sims » Tue Jun 18, 2019 5:51 pm

A minutes silence for every worker who’s died constructing the stadiums would mean the first 44 games would be played in complete silence
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Angelito » Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:18 pm

Angelito wrote:But Qatar will pour some more billions to ensure that more slave-laborers die.


Hence.

The fact that world is turning a blind eye to all of this is more sickening.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Phil71 » Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:23 pm

I worked in Bahrain back in the 80s, and all of the manual workers were either Asians from the Indian sub continent or the Philippines. The law said that if the temperature went above 40 degrees C, and was confirmed as so by the national weather office, they could take shelter from the sun and still get paid.

It was a running joke that the temperature in Bahrain never went above 39 degrees. Some days we measured it at 49 degrees, and those poor bastards were digging holes with picks and shovels.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Royal Gooner » Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:05 pm

Sims wrote:Do you reckon Spurs’ stadium will get the nod over ours?

The transfer links to their ground is f***ing atrocious mind


Untested and still a building site since the wags don't like the suites

We'd have it as we are tried and tested with multiple transport options.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Royal Gooner » Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:07 pm

UFGN wrote:England on standby

We could host it at a moments notice


We are ready and waiting since they stole 2018 from us in 2010. Then maybe we can cut out of having to do that dodgy deal with the germans.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby LMAO » Wed Jun 19, 2019 5:06 am

America, the UK, Spain/Portugal, and China could host it tomorrow. Since the opening game and final now require an 80,000+ capacity stadium, Japan could starting in 2020. Germany doesn't have an 80,000 seat stadium, but I could see FIFA relaxing the requirement for the Allianz Arena or the Olympiastadion. Australia could make some adjustments, but it would suck to be a spectator in an oval stadium (same reason I'm not a fan of running tracks) and I don't know if they could have the infrastructure in place with only three years' notice.

Since we have it in 2026 (I don't wanna move it up to 2022 since our team will likely have much better shot at a deep run in '26), Germany has had it in the past 20 years, and Xi isn't going to want China to host until they have a team that won't get completely embarrassed, that leaves Japan*, the UK, and Spain/Portugal as the most viable hosts imo

*Yes, Japan has hosted within the past 20 years, but this would be a special circumstance—like Mexico in '86—and they're the only nation in AFC that could realistically do it in three years' time.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Phil71 » Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:03 am

Greg Dyke was on the TV last night saying that at the time it was awarded to them, Qatar had ticked literally none of the pre-requisite boxes that had been created by FIFA before the selection process and sent to each nation.
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Re: Michel Platini arrested by French anti-corruption police

Postby Jedi » Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:56 am

Give him life in prison
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