Just forget it.
Who needs these rotten people?
Our 2018 Bid was a complete waste of time and £15 million.
We grovelled and begged and kissed their arses and got nowhere. We sent over our Prime Minister, Prince William, David Beckham, and a persuasive team, we presented the best bid, and it was all a ridiculous waste of time. A farce. A huge humiliation.
Putin didn’t bother going because he knew it was in the bag.
I didn’t watch the announcement at 3pm because I can’t look at Fifa president Sepp Blatter or listen to him. He thinks he’s a visionary leader but what he does and what he stands for makes me feel ill.
Fifa is a swear word, president is another swear word, Sepp and Blather are two more swear words. I just can’t utter those four words or type them out. I’m allergic to those four words.
Qatar in 2022 is the final insult from a shameless Swiss who banked over $3 billion from Sony, Visa, adidas, Coca Cola and the other sponsors before a ball was kicked in South Africa. And he now holds, for the first time ever, the votes for 2018 and 2022 on the same day. How could that not be bent?
Face it, we are not corrupt enough to win a World Cup bid.
We are not corrupt enough, simple as. We got only got two votes out of 22. And one of those was our guy Geoff Thompson.The other was Issa Hayatou.
Yes, The Sunday Times article led to the suspension of six FIFA officials including two on the executive committee. And Panorama named four more and showed proof of huge bribes being taken. You might say, “Grow up, we have to live in the real world.” I don’t accept that argument and never will.
If I have to choose between approving corruption and supporting proper journalism, I’ll go for journalism every time. We need more Panoramas, more Sunday Times investigations. It’s not the job of the press to suck up to power. They should stand up to power and stop being groupies. If other countries had been less compliant, if other media had not been silent about bribery, we would never have reached a situation where, on the day before the announcement, the leader of the Spain-Portugal bid would bitterly remark, “The fish is already sold.”
Blatter requires the host country to suspend many laws during a World Cup and the Dutch were staggered when they read his contract demands. They were so outraged that they published them, so that the whole Dutch nation could see what had been required of South Africa. By disclosing a secret document, Holland eliminated themselves.
Sepp Blatter, why don’t you fuck off? Just fuck off. Mr Hayatou, stick your vote up your arse. We don’t want a vote from you or Jack Warner or Nicolas Leoz or Ricardo Teixeira. Just fuck off, all of you. You’re all ghastly mutants who belong to another species. If we put you all in a film, it would have to be science fiction.
The 2018 World Cup will be in Russia.
Personally, I’m glad we’re not corrupt enough to get a World Cup.
I’m proud of that. And I’m glad that we bowled Australian out for 245 in Adelaide yesterday.We invented all the best sports and gave them to the world and I’m proud of that too. A cunning, shameless Swiss and his cronies could never understand the Marquess of Queensbury’s rules. If yesterday’s vote was a tie, Blatter had the casting vote. I wonder what the Marquess would have said about that.
The original London Prize Ring rules of 1743 were replaced by the Revised London Prize Ring rules of 1853. Then a new boxing code was written by John Graham Chambers in 1865 and published in 1867 as “the Queensberry rules for the sport of boxing” after John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, had publicly endorsed the code.
I like to believe that fair play is in our DNA. That doesn’t mean the English never cheat but it means we care about fair play and always punish cheating, unless it’s by England captain Alan Shearer.
How can we punish Sepp Blatter? Could we hand him over to the Chinese?
PS My favourite comedian would have been 70 yesterday.