Fifa is unfit for purpose, investigations abound but we’ve not seen convictions yet. The president has not been arrested, but, well, he has president over this enormous shambles, yet he refuses to resign. His resignation is needed to relieve the reputation of Fifa, the reputation of football itself. We all know this, but SFA chef exec, Stewart Regan said as much.
The SFA is Blatter’s role model. Regan conceded SFA president Campbell Ogilvie was horribly conflicted, as the Association dealt with the consequences of the biggest directorial negation of duty in Scottish football history – by Ogilvie, who was director and company secretary of the dysfunctional board.
Ogilvie never resigned. Ogilvie has still not resigned. Regan said nothing. Ogilvie’s supporters in the game rallied round, just as Blatter’s have today.
This is how human nature works. Ogilvie has been in enough committee meetings, pressed enough flesh, to ensure that despite the slaying he took at the hands of Lord Nimmo Smith’s SPL inquiry, he could brass it out. Accountability at the SFA does not exist. I get it. But, the SFA cannot have the audacity to make moralistic statements about the corporate accountability of others.
It is a depressing feature of Scottish life that we don’t have a culture of accountability, that the media are not sufficiently plural that such hypocrisy is exposed for what it is, that there isn’t a single elected representative prepared to disengage with the Scottish establishment on this today.
The new media are not there yet. We don’t have the authority of a broadcaster or politician to demand, and get, accountability. That’ll change in time.
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Hrvatski Jim: *thumbs up*
!!Bada Bing!!
16:04 on
28 May, 2015
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Canamalar
FIFA should not have threatened Israel. The sinner must be punished.
Hrvatski Jim
4 years ago this very hour I was nearly finished my groom speech.
LB
Blatter., it’s everybody else’s fault
Batter.,
Trust me to make sure this is fixed without a time limit, tomorrow, tomorrow whenever believe me I’m a liar.
I canny remember what I was doing this time yesterday.
Paul,
It is difficult to find anything to disagree with in today’s article.
However, it does beg the question of where was and is Celtic’s voice in all this?
The majority on the graveyard train are porters ffs
Canamalar
16:20 on
28 May, 2015
Blatter., it’s everybody else’s fault
Makes a change from everything being Wee Craigie’s fault.
Gravy train even
LB
I hope your marriage also last 127 years.
Kingsnake,15.56
Εξαιρετικό ! Απλά λαμπρή , ο Θεός ευλογεί Σάμι.
Absolutely first class, loved it!!
Lilys
40 years in the same job and now things need to change, wtf have you been doing sept, I’ll tell you, laying the bedrock of corruption that will take 100 years to remove
lilys grandpa: Thank you. :-)
5way agreement right out of blatters handbook, how did the sharpest man in Scotland miss that coming ?
Canamalar
16:31 on
28 May, 2015
40 years in the same job and now things need to change, wtf have you been doing sept, I’ll tell you, laying the bedrock of corruption that will take 100 years to remove
Sorry Canamalar.
The bedrock of corruption was laid the first day that an amateur player found a ten bob note in his boots
Hrvatski Jim
Thanks for that mate. I’m not sure I ant to live that long!
LB
Kingsnake ,
More than welcome!
Lily’s
Quonno,
Who was that ?
Blatter’s been in charge since the late 90s (I believe 1998). Before that was Havelange. Guess who is Blatter’s father-in-law? The corruption goes back much further than Blatter, and would simply continue without him, excepting a Game of Thrones-like Red Wedding at FIFA headquarters …
Figuratively speaking.
Of course.
New justice minister of the USA is attacking a foreign body, illegal infringements of the American constitution is way way down on the list, whodathunkit CSC
I suspect a football revolution is on the way led by the yanks with some major sponsors pulling the strings.
The global game of football is about to be Americanised!
LB
Canamalar
16:38 on
28 May, 2015
Quonno,
Who was that ?
Don’t really know who the first was.
However, I do believe that in the 1890s Everton were credited with being puzzled as to how a Scottish footballer supposedly earning £2.00 per week with a Glasgow club could purchase a £600. public house in the Vale of Leven.
LiviBhoy
16:44 on
28 May, 2015
I suspect a football revolution is on the way led by the yanks with some major sponsors pulling the strings.
The global game of football is about to be Americanised!
LB
Thought that it already was.
Livibhoy, what a shame that would be, imagine those that believe in acceptable civilian collateral damage as a measure of winning and losing deciding Livingston was a hotbed of insurgence.
LiviBhoy
The global game of football is about to be Americanised
Re-named Soccer -)
Blatter’ s speech like something out of Alice in Wonderland.Interesting wee bit where he forecast more bad news to come.
quonno
Nowhere near it. They have gone for the jugular here.
Advert breaks during games, rolling subs, overtime, penalty shot and free kick experts coming on and going off after dead balls, endless stats, a world serier of football.
I can see it all now. It will be horrific!
LB
Canamalar
Lost me a bit there but I am assuming this is a reference to Israel?
LB
Quonno,
Long long before FIFA had any authority, FIFA made it global that is a bedrock, a few incidents hardly make it the norm.
FIFA and UEFA made it the norm
Kingsnake 16:38
Oddly enough another of Havelange’s son-in-law’s is ex-CBF President, Ricardo Teixeira.
A man more unpleasant than a pooh eating slug, embedded in your lower colon.
…….. and that’s BEFORE we begin to consider all his dodgy deals !!
Celtic FC played its first game today in 1888, against a now defunct club who had been in existence for 16 years but had won hee-haw.
Celtic won 5-2 of course.
HH!!
Morrissey the 23rd
16:19 on
28 May, 2015
So true. Unwritten rule to never do that. The billions they spend on influencing media and lobbying politicians is on record.
Blatter 2 big own goals (first being giving Qatar world cup.
Roy Keane must be sniggering at the Jack Warner arrest.
Have the SFA offered super football administrator and all round good guy Campbell Ogilvie’s services yet to sort out the FIFA mess?
LB
Livibhoy,
Israel was not even on my mind, americanisation does not always stem from Zionism though they may now be indistinguishable, it was not my first thought.
Corporatism is not all Zionism
leftclicktic
12:10 on 28 May, 2015
GlassTwoThirdsFull
Motherwell player to be booked in 1st 15 mins 13/2,
I have no doubt Madden will be getting talked about on here and elsewhere tonight,
I hope is is for the right reasons:))
Till later all
Ohhhhhhhhhhh suspected GOUT up date :))))
after 8 days of pain gave in and went to Docs and he gave me colcichine which someone on here recommended on the 1st day,i think it was gordonbhoy,
though the fruit juice (cherry) undoubtedly helped(though it didn’t help my Colitis) , i needed to get on top of the pain 1st .
moanygitCSC:)))))))))))))))
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Leftclick, I wouldn’t do this for anyone but for my fellow bucketeer here is my remedy for gout.
Simple bicarbonate of soda. I tea-spoon in water four times a day (one at bed time).
This will give instant relief and turn your urine into an alkaline state.
There is a danger that if you are not flushing the system while the bi-carb is breaking up the uric acid crystals on your big toe joint, the crystals will simply re-form.
To combat this drink pure lemon juice diluted in water.
Go online and get some litmus papers and when the gout is gone keep a daily 7 on the litmus scale by drinking a glass of water 100mg added to two tablespoons of lemon juice and half a teaspoon of bicard.
Add the bicarb to lemon and let it fizz and settle before adding water.