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Mexico Withdraws World Cup Bid
FIFA has just announced that the Mexico World Cup bid for 2018/2022 HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN
This is indeed sad news for CONCACAF Supremo Jack Warner, for whom a Mexico tournament would allow him to use his influence in the region, combined with his longstanding contacts in Mexican media along with his well known penchant to steal anything that's not nailed down to make one final big dump into his IRA.
Photo Credit: Chuck Blazer
For those of you with strong stomachs and/or a penchant for listening to complete bull, FIFA'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESSER will be available live from Rio via the internet later today.
Someone will undoubtedly correct me but I believe 21.00 Central European Time is 3:00 PM Eastern in the US.
One of the key topics they'll be discussing this week as they enjoy all the exotic comforts and entertainment that an absolutely unlimited expense account can buy you in Rio de Janeiro (the mind fairly reels) is the format for the next Olympic football tournament.
Blatter is known to favor reducing it to a U21 competition from the current U23 and also eliminating the three "overage" players rule.
The IOC isn't at all happy about this - not surprisingly, for obvious reasons - and Uncle Seppy is apparently prepared to offer them their choice: either let him lower the age to U21 or eliminate the 3+ group.
While he's down there in Brazil Blatter isn't neglecting any opportunity to suck up to the locals. In this case he's MAKING CUDDLY-COO NOISES about Brazil's bid for the 2016 Olympics.
Of course, next week when he's picking up some garish award/trophy/sash/medal from Outer Mongolia or Swaziland or Guinea-Bissau he'll say exactly the same thing about them.
One thing you can be sure he won't be commenting on is THIS INTERESTING CHALLENGE from Dr Paul Hawkins, who runs Hawken, the company which developed the so-called "goal line technology" that Blatter has claimed isn't reliable enough for FIFA to employ.
In response, Dr. Hawkins says
"...as you are aware, the reasons you have given as to why Hawk-Eye could not be approved do not accord with the facts. From tests conducted at Reading, the Hawk-Eye system was shown to be a very viable option and provided the correct result in 100% of the tests conducted."
"If you believe that football is better off without goal-line technology, then please use this reason when justifying your decision rather than making a scapegoat out of the technology providers and incorrectly damaging their reputation.
"If you believe football would be better off with goal-line technology, then please embark on a fully transparent, scientific process so that technology providers are able to deliver a system which meets your requirements."
Somehow I don't think it would be wise for the good Doctor to hold his breath waiting for an answer.
This is indeed sad news for CONCACAF Supremo Jack Warner, for whom a Mexico tournament would allow him to use his influence in the region, combined with his longstanding contacts in Mexican media along with his well known penchant to steal anything that's not nailed down to make one final big dump into his IRA.
Photo Credit: Chuck Blazer
For those of you with strong stomachs and/or a penchant for listening to complete bull, FIFA'S EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESSER will be available live from Rio via the internet later today.
Someone will undoubtedly correct me but I believe 21.00 Central European Time is 3:00 PM Eastern in the US.
One of the key topics they'll be discussing this week as they enjoy all the exotic comforts and entertainment that an absolutely unlimited expense account can buy you in Rio de Janeiro (the mind fairly reels) is the format for the next Olympic football tournament.
Blatter is known to favor reducing it to a U21 competition from the current U23 and also eliminating the three "overage" players rule.
The IOC isn't at all happy about this - not surprisingly, for obvious reasons - and Uncle Seppy is apparently prepared to offer them their choice: either let him lower the age to U21 or eliminate the 3+ group.
While he's down there in Brazil Blatter isn't neglecting any opportunity to suck up to the locals. In this case he's MAKING CUDDLY-COO NOISES about Brazil's bid for the 2016 Olympics.
Of course, next week when he's picking up some garish award/trophy/sash/medal from Outer Mongolia or Swaziland or Guinea-Bissau he'll say exactly the same thing about them.
One thing you can be sure he won't be commenting on is THIS INTERESTING CHALLENGE from Dr Paul Hawkins, who runs Hawken, the company which developed the so-called "goal line technology" that Blatter has claimed isn't reliable enough for FIFA to employ.
In response, Dr. Hawkins says
"...as you are aware, the reasons you have given as to why Hawk-Eye could not be approved do not accord with the facts. From tests conducted at Reading, the Hawk-Eye system was shown to be a very viable option and provided the correct result in 100% of the tests conducted."
"If you believe that football is better off without goal-line technology, then please use this reason when justifying your decision rather than making a scapegoat out of the technology providers and incorrectly damaging their reputation.
"If you believe football would be better off with goal-line technology, then please embark on a fully transparent, scientific process so that technology providers are able to deliver a system which meets your requirements."
Somehow I don't think it would be wise for the good Doctor to hold his breath waiting for an answer.
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I'm sure Jack will work out some way to blackmail the Brazilians.Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 09:21 AM by Claymore 
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Bill, when Blatter and Warner inevitably die in the midst of a hookers-and-coke party in Ibiza, how sure are you that their replacements won't be equally or more blatantly corrupt?Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 09:24 AM by FijiUnited 
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Sepp must be waiting for Jack to figure out how they can own a goal-line tech company before he changes his mind about technology.
Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 09:40 AM by Mullet&Talon
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I'm going to go ahead and opine that it would be nigh on to impossible for anyone to be MORE blatantly corrupt than they are, although with FIFA maybe that's a dangerous thing to say.Quote:Originally Posted by FijiUnited
Bill, when Blatter and Warner inevitably die in the midst of a hookers-and-coke party in Ibiza, how sure are you that their replacements won't be equally or more blatantly corrupt?
But your point about their replacements is, of course, well taken, and the reason is quite simple: if Jack Warner dropped dead tomorrow, CONCACAF would hold an election and the guy who made the most bribes and promises of future loot would win. It's literally the only way.
So the fact that person x gets elected is in and of itself a guarantee that he's corrupt.
And frankly, the guy who'd be most likely to take his place, I would think, would be Chuck Blazer, the man who tried to set up an offshore betting parlor to handle Western Hemisphere World Cup action before even FIFA blanched and made him shut it down.Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 09:53 AM by Bill Archer
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Without telling us who was conducted those tests, that is a mostly meaningless statistic.Quote:"...as you are aware, the reasons you have given as to why Hawk-Eye could not be approved do not accord with the facts. From tests conducted at Reading, the Hawk-Eye system was shown to be a very viable option and provided the correct result in 100% of the tests conducted."
But I suspect that what's holding up the usage of Hawk-Eye or any other similar system is that the appropriate arrangements have not been worked out under which it would be shown to be good for the game, and by that, I mean "in which Sepp Blatter and his pals get a taste of the action."Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 10:09 AM by ElJefe
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Why would México drop out? I would've thought they were among the frontrunners to get the World Cup.Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 10:14 AM by Q*bert Jones III
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Jack has his kids lined up to corrupt for him in the future. He is teaching them so well, too...Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 10:19 AM by Reignking
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With the current recession and the war on the drug cartels draining the national budget, President Calderon basically told FEMEXFUT that it would be on it's on in trying to seek funds to build new stadiums or remodel older ones to meet FIFA's standards. This basically killed any realistic shot of Mexico getting a WC.Quote:Originally Posted by HATE
Why would México drop out? I would've thought they were among the frontrunners to get the World Cup.
Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 12:57 PM by StingerC
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This means that the World Cup is now USA-Australia-European Country(ies) in the race? Acutally, come to think of it USA might have won, as it would be "out of bounds" in the crazy and weird unwritten rules FIFA created to give a non-UEFA federation two within a "rotation," (Which was created sometime in the within the last decade) i.e. 2 AFC 0 CONCACAF
Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 01:12 PM by njndirish
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All the US competitors for 2022 are in the AFC and of those I think only Australia really has a strong shot at winning the bid.
Posted 29 Sep 2009 at 01:22 PM by Celtigo
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