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No, it's not.

But why show a program about FIFA corruption days before a decision?

Wait until after the decision and they'd illustrate the corruption clearly.

Or by highlighting the corruption before the vote hope that one or 2 might dot he honourable thing and vote correctly ?
 
You and I seemingly just have different ideas as to what constitutes "evidence". I think of evidence as something that would stand up at trial. You seem to think of evidence as something which may suggest that something might have been done. What the BBC offered up was laughable; which is why you won't see any charges brought on the back of it.

Hmmm what about this.

The court case followed an investigation by the Swiss authorities into the collapse of ISL in 2001. Six ISL managers were tried in 2008 for misusing company money. But they were not tried for commercial bribery because that was not an offence in Switzerland at the time.

What Mr Blatter failed to mention, however, is that Fifa officials were the subject of a second criminal investigation by a Swiss magistrate.

He completed his investigation into the ISL affair this June and concluded that Fifa executives had taken kickbacks on marketing contracts. But their names were kept secret as part of an out-of-court settlement which saw them pay back £3.5 million.
 
This place is unreal.

As I said before - if there's a witness in a murder trial, and his family is attacked by the accussed, is it then the witness fault?

I mean, he didn't turn a blind eye. He should have just let it happen, it's been absolutley no benefit to him at all this witness malarky. Better off keeping schtum and gladly accept the rewards.

Perfect example mate.

If the witness was told that his testimony would have no impact whatsoever, and the murderer would walk regardless. Not only that, knowing that the witness had testified against him, the suspect came and kicked shit out of him......

If you were the witness what would you do?

Not saying corruption is to be supported, or concealed. I am just saying that if the aim of the BBC documentary was to fix the problem, ie remove corruption in FIFA, they have failed, and frankly they knew they were gonna fail.
 
They got the report in October, then they gave Fifa time to reply and also made the programme. I must have wrote that about a million f***ing times now.

They timed the broadcast for the maximum viewers possible. Even the government asked them to reschedule the timing as it would damage the bid, but they wanted the maximum viewers possible.

The bbc timed the broadcast for their own ends only.
 
We should back the BBC and other parties to go after FIFA and bring them down. The BBC only told the truth to the maximum amount of people. If it were lies or sensationalism they would have a lawsuit on their hands.

Sepp Blatter instructed everyone to not vote england.

No. We need more indepth investigations. Put these ***** in prison.
 
All investigative journalism should be stopped as of now unless there is a cast iron guarantee that it eradicates the problems/corruption/wrongdoing it brings to light.
 
All investigative journalism should be stopped as of now unless there is a cast iron guarantee that it eradicates the problems/corruption/wrongdoing it brings to light.

Just some reasonable hope that it might help in solving the problem. I don't think the BBC documentary ever had that hope.

I bet the Russians laughed their tits off when they watched it.
 
What difference would that make? They don't have advertising slots to sell and they aren't a commercial enterprise -we have to hand our money over to them by law so they don't care how many are watching.

The BBC has long out-lived it's purpose. This whole episode demonstrates once and for all that the BBC DOES NOT act in the national interest and as long as it doesn't, I see no reason why the people of this country should be legally obliged to fund it.

It's a disgrace and they have a lot to answer for.

another berk

Blatter has supposedly reminded the voters about "certain media coverage" so ultimately the BBC has fucked us over. I look forward to Gary Lineker resigning from the organisation in disgust.

But is it that wrong to expose corruption?

No. Ultimately FIFA fucked us over you dozy berk
 
Some poster on this thread if they found out their lass was being shagged by a builder on the evidence of a mate would let them finish the building work before having a go at him, unbelievable :eek::lol:
 
Some poster on this thread if they found out their lass was being shagged by a builder on the evidence of a mate would let them finish the building work before having a go at him, unbelievable :eek::lol:

lol

What i would do is do something that stopped him shagging wor lass, not bend over and let him shag me instead. :)
 
Actually, now i can see why they shown it 1st. if they had waited till after it would have been put down as sour grapes. but now it shows we were never in the running at all.
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lord triesman disagrees with you

says the media has a massive impact on the executive commitee
 

Have I missed something? The BBC unveiled the corruption within FIFA, they did nothing wrong. FIFA are the twats. It's also a documentary that would not have been shown in Qatar, Russia etc. because in essence, they do not live in a democracy.

They timed the broadcast for the maximum viewers possible. Even the government asked them to reschedule the timing as it would damage the bid, but they wanted the maximum viewers possible.

The bbc timed the broadcast for their own ends only.

What means would that be? Presenting the truth? They owe us the truth, they provided it.

I can't believe people are having a go at the BBC!
 
Well that comes down to which you would prefer.

Option 1: A world in which FIFA corruption is exposed, but remains corrupt (it hasn't been acted upon as some people implicated are still acting members of FIFA, so no consequence to the people involved) and we lose the world cup bid

Option 2: FIFA is corrupt behind closed doors, and we win the world cup bid.

Option 2 for me every day of the week.

There is no option 2.

Would you prefer us to grease the wheels like russia?

They timed the broadcast for the maximum viewers possible. Even the government asked them to reschedule the timing as it would damage the bid, but they wanted the maximum viewers possible.

The bbc timed the broadcast for their own ends only.

To show as many people how corrupt fifa are?

Good plan.

lord triesman disagrees with you

says the media has a massive impact on the executive commitee

Mate are you being serious? Remind us why Mr triesman hates the media.
 
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