[Football] Time to leave FIFA and start up & alternative governing body ?

[GT49er]

And you think us and the USA are the nations to lead us to this promised land.

Someone's not been paying attention

You think Qatar, Russia and the Saudis would be better for the job? ....... or gawd help us, the Swiss?

 

[1066familyman]

You think Qatar, Russia and the Saudis would be better for the job? ....... or gawd help us, the Swiss?

Did I say that?

 

[Swansman]

Its a terrible idea.

FIFA is exceptionally well-run in most regards and is absolutely brilliant in a lot of ways that will be very, very difficult to copy. Yes there is corruption and poor/silly decisions but I really don't think it is any more corrupt than any other £30bn+ market... quite the opposite. Football is surprisingly clean and fair, considering the money involved.

The right way to go is to make FIFA more transparent and democratic, imho.

 

[Rookie]

Think it could be a case of careful what you wish for. FIFA is rotten but UEFA isn’t exactly a model organisation. Unfortunately any power will go the head of the top person

 

[GT49er]

Did I say that?

Well, you denigrated the appropriateness of two basically socially progressive western nations, with no medieval laws about sexuality or women's rights, so the suggestion is that that you might prefer the alternative.
Or the institutionally (as far as football is concerned) corrupt Swiss world of Infantile and Splatter.

 

[Questions]

Exactly. I'm writing this after the news about the armband 'ban' but before the Iran game. I may (sincerely hope to) be proved wrong, but I'm guessing our servile FA will comply with FIFA's Rules and Regulations. If they're not prepared to risk one tiny act of much-discussed rebellion then the chances of them withdrawing from FIFA and working on setting up a rival organisation are less than zero.

And to think once, “We were summit Ma”

 

[Questions]

I don’t know much about antimonio …… infantasizo …. Fill me in quickly someone

 

[sparkie]

Could start by giving the the 2030 World Cup to Uruguay (100 years since the first one which took place there)

More likely to go to Saudi Arabia is my guess.

 

[GT49er]

Exactly. I'm writing this after the news about the armband 'ban' but before the Iran game. I may (sincerely hope to) be proved wrong, but I'm guessing our servile FA will comply with FIFA's Rules and Regulations. If they're not prepared to risk one tiny act of much-discussed rebellion then the chances of them withdrawing from FIFA and working on setting up a rival organisation are less than zero.

I do wonder how seemingly FIFA managed to seperate the countries that wanted to display the armband and threaten them individually, thus ensuring they caved in. A sticking together by seven countries (with the possibility of one or two more, like the USA and Australia joining them) threatening to go home and totally wreck the whole competition if FIFA pressed ahead with its bullying might have given FIFA no choice, rather than giving the FA no choice.

 

[BadFish]

The armband thing shows how much power FiFA has. The fact that so many teams have caved with the threat of a yellow card is frankly pathetic.

Collectively the larger football nations should be standing up to FIFA and forcing them to be the organisation they should be. But we continue to cower and tug our forelocks to the corrupt overlords.

A breakaway would be great, a show of defiance would be okay. But we can't even risk a yellow card at this stage. A long way to go yet.

 

[GT49er]

The armband thing shows how much power FiFA has. The fact that so many teams have caved with the threat of a yellow card is frankly pathetic.

Collectively the larger football nations should be standing up to FIFA and forcing them to be the organisation they should be. But we continue to cower and tug our forelocks to the corrupt overlords.

A breakaway would be great, a show of defiance would be okay. But we can't even risk a yellow card at this stage. A long way to go yet.

See my post above yours - FIFA contrived to isolate and individually bully the national FAs. If the seven had stood together as a bloc, and said no to FIFA, would FIFA have caved in when faced with a prospect of a quarter of the teams walking out?

 

[BadFish]

See my post above yours - FIFA contrived to isolate and individually bully the national FAs. If the seven had stood together as a bloc, and said no to FIFA, would FIFA have caved in when faced with a prospect of a quarter of the teams walking out?

I agree but you have to ask why those nations didn't do that. Contriving to isolate nations is one thing. Managing to do that is quite another.

 

[beorhthelm]

everyone's overlooking the what FIFA is doing with arm bands is applying the laws of the game. they havent invented new ones for this cup. fairly certain the various associations knew what would happen, and played along to publicise the cause for as long as they could.

 

[Zeberdi]

does it ever stop?

 

[Giraffe]

It was widely touted when we lost the World Cup to Russia and Australia lost to Qatar. If it couldn’t happen then it mostly certainly won’t happen now.

 

[Triggaaar]

Is it time to leave FIFA and start up an alternative governing body for football

Surely that time was when Qatar was awarded the world cup, and if not then, as soon as it became clear that Qatar were enslaving migrant workers and then working them to death. That would have been a good time for all decent countries to say 'you know what, this isn't ok, we'll not play in Qatar'.

 

[Invicta]

Didn't the threat to boycott sponsors create a stir a while back ?

World wide campaign against Budweiser, Coke, McDs etc

 

[Zeberdi]

The biggest issue of Qatar hosting the WC is Human Rights and subsequently the cowardly restriction by FIFA to ban anyone from protesting against infringements of LGBTQ rights by wearing one love armbands - is this not considered justification enough alone to walk away from FIFA?


Fifa claims that it is “committed to respecting all internationally recognised human rights and shall strive to promote the protection of these rights.” This policy states that discrimination of any kind, including against sexual orientation, is “strictly prohibited and punishable by suspension or expulsion”.

World Cup 2022: Fifa’s clampdown on rainbow armbands conflicts with its own guidance on human rights

The decision to only pay lip service to discrimination could have long term impacts.

theconversation.com

Bollocks is it.

The FIFA tournament rules of official equipment/clothing is also being used to deliberately suppress LGBTQ anti-discrimination statements- otherwise why would FIFA issue their own armbands protesting against discrimination minus any mention of discrimination on the grounds of sexuality?

 

[Zeberdi]

everyone's overlooking the what FIFA is doing with arm bands is applying the laws of the game. they havent invented new ones for this cup. fairly certain the various associations knew what would happen, and played along to publicise the cause for as long as they could.

No, no one is over looking that so an apologist approach to what FIFA are doing is unacceptable - fans are having hats removed - nothing to do with equipment rules.

 

[beorhthelm]

No, no one is over looking that so an apologist approach to what FIFA are doing is unacceptable - fans are having hats removed - nothing to do with equipment rules.

subject was the arm bands, dont go switching to fans hats. unless there has been a rule change, the arm band issue entirely predictable.