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2015-06-02 19:13:36
44 votes, rating 5.4
44 votes, rating 5.4
Sepp Blatter is out!
Hell may have just frozen over, because Sepp Blatter announced he is stepping down as president of FIFA:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-fc-yahoo/sepp-blatter-resigns-as-fifa-president-165551478.html
None of my co-workers are interested in this, but I figured a few of you might be ;)
(got my first 1 rating already)
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-fc-yahoo/sepp-blatter-resigns-as-fifa-president-165551478.html
None of my co-workers are interested in this, but I figured a few of you might be ;)
(got my first 1 rating already)
Comments
Posted by BillBrasky on 2015-06-02 19:15:11
Soccer has scandals??? O.o
Posted by koadah on 2015-06-02 19:16:33
Bribes are part of the game. It is in the rules.
Posted by happygrue on 2015-06-02 19:20:46
John Oliver is happy it seems: http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/videos/john-oliver-pleads-for-sepp-blatters-ouster-on-last-week-tonight-20150601
I haven't even watched it yet, but based on his last bit on FIFA I am looking forward to having a look when the little ears are no longer listening. ;)
I haven't even watched it yet, but based on his last bit on FIFA I am looking forward to having a look when the little ears are no longer listening. ;)
Posted by hissa-lives on 2015-06-02 19:26:29
Yeah but he's staying until they get all member state representatives together for meeting, could be December to March 2016.
That works, sure yeah why not stay another 8 months to carefully cover up more evidence that you paid millions in bribes an back handers, go for it
That works, sure yeah why not stay another 8 months to carefully cover up more evidence that you paid millions in bribes an back handers, go for it
Posted by Calcium on 2015-06-02 19:28:02
Blatter out? Woooooooo!
Posted by Stimme on 2015-06-02 19:28:30
Now the pressure is on pythrr. How much longer will he be able to stay on top of OBBA?
Posted by Cavetroll on 2015-06-02 19:30:46
Stimme, that depends on how well pythrr can cover up those links to George....
Posted by Calcium on 2015-06-02 19:46:25
Pythrr's back handers of potatoes to eastern Europeans responsible for Quatar getting the 2018 BB world cup? ConSPIROcy!
Posted by anisdrin on 2015-06-02 19:51:24
Is Blatter like Purplechest for fumble?
Posted by frogboy on 2015-06-02 19:58:03
Meh football is poo, rated too :D
Posted by LucaAnt on 2015-06-02 20:09:37
Putin to the rescue!!! :D
Thank you Cavetroll for this sweet news <3 <3 <3
Thank you Cavetroll for this sweet news <3 <3 <3
Posted by Winni on 2015-06-02 20:22:07
There is a god.
Posted by The_Great_Gobbo on 2015-06-02 21:01:21
He resigned to take on an even more evil and corrupt organisation, Hubba
Posted by Russo on 2015-06-02 21:24:47
Good riddence. Hope they catch him on something too!
Posted by Wreckage on 2015-06-02 21:40:34
I almost can't believe it. This is amazing. WTF..
Posted by PaddyMick on 2015-06-02 21:47:49
About time. Hope the good work carries on making soccer more global though and diverting money to developing countries, only this time without the corruption.
Posted by Winni on 2015-06-02 21:49:08
FOOTBALL!
Posted by Harad on 2015-06-02 22:00:12
Dammit I had North Korea down to become a democracy before Sepp Blatter relinquished control of FIFA.
Posted by pythrr on 2015-06-02 22:18:15
monkey ball bollocks!
GEORGE!!!! what have you been doing now!?
GEORGE!!!! what have you been doing now!?
Posted by Wreckage on 2015-06-02 23:28:06
Honestly, I don't give a rats ass about 'developing football'. All you need is a ball and an empty space that's big enough to stand in.
But the moment they get rid of all the crap Blatter invented like having to pay absurd sums to be able to show pictures and report on football games, to have to close all the non-fifa-approved shops in the closer vincinity of a worldcup, the fact that the worldcup mustn't be called worldcup anymore but must be called FIFA-worldcup when somebody reports on it. The fact that FIFA controls all the images of their events no matter in what country they are aired in.
The way how players must be only interviewed in their special interview boxes with all the little labels in the background,, the fact that FIFA gives a rats ass about any human being may it be Africa, Brasil or Quatar that comes in any closer proximity of their tournaments, to the point where people lose their homes, their jobs and their lives.
This man has sucked the life out of the sport at such a ridiculus rate and this is just the stuff he did legally while the whole world was watching.
Within all that I don't feel like 'corruption' is the worst thing you can accuse this man of.
I mean for gods sake, it's a sport, right? It should be fun, certainly not.. this.
But the moment they get rid of all the crap Blatter invented like having to pay absurd sums to be able to show pictures and report on football games, to have to close all the non-fifa-approved shops in the closer vincinity of a worldcup, the fact that the worldcup mustn't be called worldcup anymore but must be called FIFA-worldcup when somebody reports on it. The fact that FIFA controls all the images of their events no matter in what country they are aired in.
The way how players must be only interviewed in their special interview boxes with all the little labels in the background,, the fact that FIFA gives a rats ass about any human being may it be Africa, Brasil or Quatar that comes in any closer proximity of their tournaments, to the point where people lose their homes, their jobs and their lives.
This man has sucked the life out of the sport at such a ridiculus rate and this is just the stuff he did legally while the whole world was watching.
Within all that I don't feel like 'corruption' is the worst thing you can accuse this man of.
I mean for gods sake, it's a sport, right? It should be fun, certainly not.. this.
Posted by Roland on 2015-06-03 00:43:17
Bribe all menz!
Posted by Kam on 2015-06-03 02:10:23
Get the ref!
Posted by pythrr on 2015-06-03 02:11:00
eh, wreckage, did Blatter touch you badly as a child. that's some rage, sir.
Posted by OTS on 2015-06-03 02:13:33
You're welcome.
Signed, 'Merica
Signed, 'Merica
Posted by garyt1 on 2015-06-03 03:57:06
A great day. Hopefully the replacement will not be just as unsuitable.
Posted by coombz on 2015-06-03 06:37:36
"But the moment they get rid of all the crap Blatter invented like..."
LOL you actually think they'll get rid of all that stuff?
LOL you actually think they'll get rid of all that stuff?
Posted by Wreckage on 2015-06-03 09:50:53
"LOL you actually think they'll get rid of all that stuff?"
Of course not. Maybe they get rid of just one thing.
That would be a start. Certainly not with Blatter.
Maybe they just go and improve the rules.
Best possible outcome: The whole damn organization gets shut down.
Of course not. Maybe they get rid of just one thing.
That would be a start. Certainly not with Blatter.
Maybe they just go and improve the rules.
Best possible outcome: The whole damn organization gets shut down.
Posted by DrDeath on 2015-06-03 12:33:35
Excellent! If anyone from Fifa is out there I'd just like to point out my skaven have a long history of using bribes, and I'm great at spending large amounts of cash. I'll even spare a few coppers to build some mud huts for orphaned third world snotlings. I have potential, call me.
Posted by PainState on 2015-06-03 17:03:59
"Maybe they just go and improve the rules."- Wreckage
Real Life and Blood Bowl once again intersect.
How to you improve FIFA-Football....Change the rule book. FIFA LRB 5.0 or some such?
Real Life and Blood Bowl once again intersect.
How to you improve FIFA-Football....Change the rule book. FIFA LRB 5.0 or some such?
Posted by Wreckage on 2015-06-04 00:36:15
...most of the rules have been there forever...
The existance of any monopolys bothers me a lot and when a monopoly is more powerful than most countries I find that very troublesome.
Compared to the real world problems this organisation causes that 'rule-changes-aspect' isn't really that important to me, personally.
But... the pro level game probably should be advanced to inclusion of more modern technology...
the main argument that is always made against better ref-support is that people in the pubs would lose a topic to talk about if decisions were always correct.
To me that seems a terrible way of reasoning. Particularly this way of reasoning helps to make game manipulation very easy. (Not even saying it's happening, just saying if a bunch of corrupt people maintain such a status quo I find that quite bothersome.)
The yellow and red card model that is used in football is also really dumb. First you get a warning and just nothing happens, then you do something again and suddenly get banned for the rest of the game.
But sometimes you also imidiatly get banned for the whole game.
It's a bit of a naive 20th century outlook on the sport with this sort of ideal of ethical professional football where rule violations are really meant to be unintentional.
In practice when your team recieves a red card you will have very little chance to win the game and be mainly focused on maintaining a tie against higher numbers.
You can maybe do a dive in the penalty area and hope to get a free penalty kick but thats about it and ultimatively thats just another way too unbalanced aspect of the rules. Some people probably would resist a change there but the inclusion of a camera-referee that could be asked for support in such situations would already highly contribute to make the game much fairer.
Regarding red and yellow cards: The reality is that tactical fouls in football are even more common in football than in Bloodbowl. NOT having a yellow card is a bit like the BB equivalent of posessing a free bribe on a player.
Of course a bribe can fail and you can get banned anyways, but the player is pretty much told: Yo, go ahead stop your opponent by any means UNTIL you get a yellow card, then AFTER start behaving.
Another approach would be uneconomical. Since fouls are a source of injury and actual harm that is not supposed to be part of the game, imidiate but less drastic sanctions would be obviously much more effective. Like a 5 or 10 minutes ban.
The lazy time management is silly too. The referee is supposed to add time for game stop events at the end of the match but they few minutes that are added are usually more like a very random default number that has litterally nothing to do with how the game went and is always far far below the minutes spend on breaks. So it is very easy and very simple for a coach to waste time on player exchanges and the like in the last couple of minutes. For the viewer this is a bit dull because essentially the pace of the game just slows down while one side may still desperatly be trying to shift something. So.. I think properly timing the game wouldn't make like a.. huge difference but it would be another really easy thing to do and it would eliminate another source of potential game manipulation. (Classic case for instance: The referee announces 3 minutes extra time... the game is a 93:30 and a (light) foul, (lets say a shoulder grab) appears in the penalty zone. The ref blows the whisle and rewards a penalty kick.
Regardless, football is of course the no.1 sport in the world and is irreplaceable regardless of the way it is played.
The existance of any monopolys bothers me a lot and when a monopoly is more powerful than most countries I find that very troublesome.
Compared to the real world problems this organisation causes that 'rule-changes-aspect' isn't really that important to me, personally.
But... the pro level game probably should be advanced to inclusion of more modern technology...
the main argument that is always made against better ref-support is that people in the pubs would lose a topic to talk about if decisions were always correct.
To me that seems a terrible way of reasoning. Particularly this way of reasoning helps to make game manipulation very easy. (Not even saying it's happening, just saying if a bunch of corrupt people maintain such a status quo I find that quite bothersome.)
The yellow and red card model that is used in football is also really dumb. First you get a warning and just nothing happens, then you do something again and suddenly get banned for the rest of the game.
But sometimes you also imidiatly get banned for the whole game.
It's a bit of a naive 20th century outlook on the sport with this sort of ideal of ethical professional football where rule violations are really meant to be unintentional.
In practice when your team recieves a red card you will have very little chance to win the game and be mainly focused on maintaining a tie against higher numbers.
You can maybe do a dive in the penalty area and hope to get a free penalty kick but thats about it and ultimatively thats just another way too unbalanced aspect of the rules. Some people probably would resist a change there but the inclusion of a camera-referee that could be asked for support in such situations would already highly contribute to make the game much fairer.
Regarding red and yellow cards: The reality is that tactical fouls in football are even more common in football than in Bloodbowl. NOT having a yellow card is a bit like the BB equivalent of posessing a free bribe on a player.
Of course a bribe can fail and you can get banned anyways, but the player is pretty much told: Yo, go ahead stop your opponent by any means UNTIL you get a yellow card, then AFTER start behaving.
Another approach would be uneconomical. Since fouls are a source of injury and actual harm that is not supposed to be part of the game, imidiate but less drastic sanctions would be obviously much more effective. Like a 5 or 10 minutes ban.
The lazy time management is silly too. The referee is supposed to add time for game stop events at the end of the match but they few minutes that are added are usually more like a very random default number that has litterally nothing to do with how the game went and is always far far below the minutes spend on breaks. So it is very easy and very simple for a coach to waste time on player exchanges and the like in the last couple of minutes. For the viewer this is a bit dull because essentially the pace of the game just slows down while one side may still desperatly be trying to shift something. So.. I think properly timing the game wouldn't make like a.. huge difference but it would be another really easy thing to do and it would eliminate another source of potential game manipulation. (Classic case for instance: The referee announces 3 minutes extra time... the game is a 93:30 and a (light) foul, (lets say a shoulder grab) appears in the penalty zone. The ref blows the whisle and rewards a penalty kick.
Regardless, football is of course the no.1 sport in the world and is irreplaceable regardless of the way it is played.