Like many football fans, I was well aware of FIFA’s duplicity regarding internal couruption before the BBC Panorama programe was aired earlier this year, which didn’t help England’s chances of hosting the 2018 World Cup.
But I feel it didn’t damage them either.
It’s a real shame the full extent of FIFA’s role of indifference over Jack Warner and Mohamed Bin Hammam has been laid bare by a leaked report.
The ethics committee inquiry over the scandal, ordered by FIFA, has left no stone unturned and it’s just as well Warner has quit all his international posts.
Mr Warner will still get a pension from FIFA that’s believed to be almost £23,000.00 a year for life.
Many of us don't even get a yearly salary, much less a pension of that amount!
Warner may be old but the rest of us will have to hope our numbers in the Euro Lottery come up to live off money like that!
Right now, I’m thinking of the ABBA song, Money Money Money - probably the best way for the rest of us to be a millionare is to marry one!
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I also want to say congrats to the Northern Ireland pro Roy McIlroy for his win in the 111th US Open Championship.
The reaction of his home town supporters was enthusiastic.
To see another angle of the main man, click here.
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Meanwhile please check my other site by clicking here.
Ta!
Andria
Thursday 23 June 2011
Wednesday 22 June 2011
Go team GB.
I would love seeing a football team GB for the Olympics!
Imagine it, getting the cream of the crop, i.e. the best football players in the UK, playing for one nation.
I can also see the wish of the Welsh and Scottish FA to keep their identities but team GB will include Gareth Bale, the current PFA Footballer of the Year.
He’s rated by many footballers as one of the world’s best players and this could be his only chance at a global tournament.
So don’t look at this as a sceptical chance to sell more tickets but as a chance to show what the UK can do.
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I can understand, if I didn’t love football, why many people still dislike Argentina’s Diego Maradonna.
On the 25th anniversary of his infamous Hand of God incident that knocked England out of the World Cup quarter finals, the retired striker Chris Waddle, now 50, said: “The goal should never of stood.”
I believe the reason why it did stand is because the linesman responsible for watcjing the ball simply missed the incident before that goal was struck.
That was inexcusable – particularly so close after The Falklands War. Unfortunately politics and sport were linked on that match.A
But as a football fan, well I can’t help thinking of the Hand of Hod incident in the late 1990s, committed by Ian Wright.
Let’s face it, we didn’t complain about that incident – especially since it did help to forward England in it’s campaign to play international football.
Maradonna, like Pele and Best, is one of the greatest footballers of all time – England were always the under dogs in that match.
Nonetheless the incident did hurt me and many people from England and Diego’s ‘goal’ was at a crucial moment when the match was still 0-0.
I do hope Maradonna would just admit what he said after the match was nonsense - he saw an opportunity and took it!
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I wish Chris Hughton all the best as the new manager of Birmingham City boss.
Relegated Brum will no doubt want Hughton to do for their club what he did at Newcastle and get them back into the Premiership league at the first attempt.
I don’t blame them as Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest have shown, once you get relegated it’s hard to get back in with the big boys.
Go Hughton!
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I will avoid talking about Villas-Boas and Chelsea – I mean it!
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What the story with the typical English weather?
At this rate, with all the rain pouring down, then stopping, then starting again, Wimbledon will be opening on a Sunday - once again!
I’m glad to see Serena Williams back after those terrible life-threatening blood clots, which took her out of tennis for a year.
It was touching seeing her break down after wining her first match this year at Wimbledon.
She wore a nice outfit too.
You go girl!
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Don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
Light and Peace
Andria
Imagine it, getting the cream of the crop, i.e. the best football players in the UK, playing for one nation.
I can also see the wish of the Welsh and Scottish FA to keep their identities but team GB will include Gareth Bale, the current PFA Footballer of the Year.
He’s rated by many footballers as one of the world’s best players and this could be his only chance at a global tournament.
So don’t look at this as a sceptical chance to sell more tickets but as a chance to show what the UK can do.
*******
I can understand, if I didn’t love football, why many people still dislike Argentina’s Diego Maradonna.
On the 25th anniversary of his infamous Hand of God incident that knocked England out of the World Cup quarter finals, the retired striker Chris Waddle, now 50, said: “The goal should never of stood.”
I believe the reason why it did stand is because the linesman responsible for watcjing the ball simply missed the incident before that goal was struck.
That was inexcusable – particularly so close after The Falklands War. Unfortunately politics and sport were linked on that match.A
But as a football fan, well I can’t help thinking of the Hand of Hod incident in the late 1990s, committed by Ian Wright.
Let’s face it, we didn’t complain about that incident – especially since it did help to forward England in it’s campaign to play international football.
Maradonna, like Pele and Best, is one of the greatest footballers of all time – England were always the under dogs in that match.
Nonetheless the incident did hurt me and many people from England and Diego’s ‘goal’ was at a crucial moment when the match was still 0-0.
I do hope Maradonna would just admit what he said after the match was nonsense - he saw an opportunity and took it!
*******
I wish Chris Hughton all the best as the new manager of Birmingham City boss.
Relegated Brum will no doubt want Hughton to do for their club what he did at Newcastle and get them back into the Premiership league at the first attempt.
I don’t blame them as Sheffield Wednesday and Nottingham Forest have shown, once you get relegated it’s hard to get back in with the big boys.
Go Hughton!
*******
I will avoid talking about Villas-Boas and Chelsea – I mean it!
*******
What the story with the typical English weather?
At this rate, with all the rain pouring down, then stopping, then starting again, Wimbledon will be opening on a Sunday - once again!
I’m glad to see Serena Williams back after those terrible life-threatening blood clots, which took her out of tennis for a year.
It was touching seeing her break down after wining her first match this year at Wimbledon.
She wore a nice outfit too.
You go girl!
*******
Don’t hesitate to visit my other site by clicking here.
Light and Peace
Andria
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