World Cup 2022 (Qatar)

[arcadianagain]

I couldn`t find a thread for 2022 Qatar,but I read that apart from no alcohol or gays, singing and a strict dress code will be applied, ie no shorts for men or leggings for women. A fun time will be had by all. What odds many of the larger FA`s will abstain and organize a rival competition/

[oakdale160]

If it is moved fromQatar, will Seph and his buddies have to pay all the bribe money back?

[arcadianagain]

New evidence has emerged that the discredited Arab official organized and distributed a £3 million slush fund to bribe various FA voters. It seems if the allegations can be proved a new vote will take place. Who else was in the running?

[caller]

Australia for one and ahem, England. But no-one likes the truth being exposed.

[Big Boy]

I doubt whether any of the other countries still has the funding in place if the vote is re-visited.

[PeteC]

Australia for one and ahem, England. But no-one likes the truth being exposed.

I would think the cost for either country above would be minimal. All needed venues are already in place. Australia may not have enough dedicated football pitches, but they have plenty of AFL fields which I think could be easily converted. Pete

[Big Boy]

Don't underestimate the money required for the World Cup. My team almost went to the wall because of a group of unscrupulous Japanese investors trying to jump on the gravy train. Its not just having somewhere to play the matches, the necessary infrastructure was due to be spread throughout Devon and Cornwall, and would have cost £millions to put in place.

[Dannie Boy]

New evidence has emerged that the discredited Arab official organized and distributed a £3 million slush fund to bribe various FA voters. It seems if the allegations can be proved a new vote will take place. Who else was in the running?

the other countries who submitted bids were from South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9250612.stm

[sateeb]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27659828


Fifa investigator to meet organizers of the 2022 World Cup

A lot of good that will do when Fifa is corrupt from the very top down.

An independent investigation would be a good start.

[arcadianagain]

Isn`t the investigator ex-FBI, naturally the Qatari organizers will claim to be innocent of any allegations but they have come to expect that their wealth can buy them whatever they want. We can only hope they get a massive kick up the jacksy

[sateeb]

He might well be ex FBI CIA NSA 007 KGB...Who pays his wages now? FIFA

[dozer]

Australia could re-launch 2022 World Cup bid following fresh Qatar corruption claims

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... mg00000067

[caller]

In view of the strength of the new evidence, I'd be surprised if it can be ignored. And the Times is planning to drip-feed it's release over the next few weeks for maximum effect.

Has anybody actually read what The Sunday Times has? The first release is 8 broadsheet size pages long. It reveals payments and the contents of emails showing how Bin Hammam for the Qatari's started wooing all of the African federations in 2008 with jaunts to Malaysia. Details of payments from 2008 to each official are disclosed along with their emails of gratitude and promises of support by return and so it continues, on and on and on.

The fact Bin Hammam travelled on the Qatari's private jet to various African states and to meetings of African FA's, where yet more money was transferred and handed over more than suggests the complicity of the Qatar rulers and officials behind their bid.

To be honest, after a while, you lose track of what each delegate received when and for what 'claimed' purpose!

It seems that all of these documents originate from a high-level whistle-blower within FIFA, which by extension, means FIFA had them? They contain emails, bank transactions, bank slips, company records and accounts and spreadsheets, They're all in electronic form and the cache is so large, that the Times had to use computer forensic technology and 'offshore supercomputers' (whatever they are) to process all the data.

Worryingly, whilst some exposed in this report have already gone, including Hammam, Warner and a few African delegates, some of those named still sit on FIFA's executive committee or various sub-committees.

In effect, it's beginning to show FIFA, as it is, is truly rotten to the core and if there is any logical reasoning, this will have to be the catalyst for massive change and clearly that starts with Blatter having to go. If there is any logical reasoning......?

[dozer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06 ... mg00000067

Here are the standout facts of the Insight team's commendable investigation, where the Qatari vice-president of Fifa, Mohamed bin Hammam is accused of...
•Using 10 slush funds controlled by his private company

•Making payments of up to200,000 were paid into the accounts of 30 African football associations


•Handing out almost400,000 in cash at football junkets held across Africa


•Paying then-Executive Committee (Exco) member for Trinidad & Tobago, Jack Warner,450,000 before 2022 World Cup vote


•Paying the Ivory Coast FA800,000, as part of Fifa's Goal Programme. Ivory Coast Exco member Jacques Anouma vowed to "push very hard the bid of Qatar"


•Delivering 60 premium 2010 World Cup tickets worth £3,800 to the hotel of Issa Hayatou, Confederation of African Football president


•Flying Hayatou to Doha for secret talks at a junket where delegates were lobbied to vote for Qatar

[dozer]

Guardian's David Conn and investigative journalist Andrew Jennings on corruption claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0206f1 ... ow_twitter