Post by bigjohncraven on May 11, 2011 18:17:05 GMT 1
Yes the thing we have all known for years appears finally to be coming out into the open Following Treismans evidence.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1385718/FIFA-chiefs-wanted-bribes-FA-World-Cup-votes-says-Lord-Triesman.html
Now this is about as surprising as finding out that politicians cant be trusted or that the catholic church is full of kiddy fiddler's.
The question is,What do you think we should do about it?
Over the years I have found myself getting less and less interested in the World cup and to be honest the last one in South Africa bored the tits off me(quite apart from Englands miserable display)
It appears to me that though we as a country bring more supporters to these tournaments than anyone else we don't seem to have very many friends within the ruling body of Fifa despite the vast amounts of money this must generate.
Over the last couple of years as we got better players and started loosing them for international games I started to understand a bit better the club v country argument and to be honest I came down on the club side.To me it's far more important that players are available to play for us and worrying about them getting injured while playing for their countries.
So my radical answer is pull out of the world cup but stay in the European championships.
It would I believe solve a lot of the problems that seem to occupy our minds,pointless friendlies,too many games for the top players,dead weekends leading to the cramming together of league matches.Without all the world cup games the England managers job could be part time and be what it should be an honorary job for a few games each year.
Let FIFa and the Fool Blatter be as corrupt as they like,I'm sure they would miss us more than we miss them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1385718/FIFA-chiefs-wanted-bribes-FA-World-Cup-votes-says-Lord-Triesman.html
Now this is about as surprising as finding out that politicians cant be trusted or that the catholic church is full of kiddy fiddler's.
The question is,What do you think we should do about it?
Over the years I have found myself getting less and less interested in the World cup and to be honest the last one in South Africa bored the tits off me(quite apart from Englands miserable display)
It appears to me that though we as a country bring more supporters to these tournaments than anyone else we don't seem to have very many friends within the ruling body of Fifa despite the vast amounts of money this must generate.
Over the last couple of years as we got better players and started loosing them for international games I started to understand a bit better the club v country argument and to be honest I came down on the club side.To me it's far more important that players are available to play for us and worrying about them getting injured while playing for their countries.
So my radical answer is pull out of the world cup but stay in the European championships.
It would I believe solve a lot of the problems that seem to occupy our minds,pointless friendlies,too many games for the top players,dead weekends leading to the cramming together of league matches.Without all the world cup games the England managers job could be part time and be what it should be an honorary job for a few games each year.
Let FIFa and the Fool Blatter be as corrupt as they like,I'm sure they would miss us more than we miss them.