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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Margaret McGill
Three possibilities.
Celtic are uninterested.
Celtic are interested and are trying for change.
Celtic are interested but are powerless to cause change.
Time will tell but a few weeks back the indications were it’s not the first option.
Fitba about to be Americanised?
The World Cup to be renamed the ‘Soccer World Series?’
Played in the States every four years?
HH!!
Pity about all the hoo-ha at FIFA. Campbell Ogilvie would have fitted right in there.
Canamalar
You have totally lost me then.
Apologies but I am not sure what the original point was.
LB
Is that the same Loretta Lynch who refused to clean up the HSBC scandal over laundering,opting for a fine that was a pittance and was then given a top job?
Canamalar
Just to be clear. I mentioned Israel because I had read that FIFA were due to kick them out due to their treatment of the Palistinians but may have picked that up wrong.
If there are insurgents in Livingston get them up St Andrews RC church in Craigshill.
LB
Touchdown Celtic!
Canamalar
16:50 on
28 May, 2015
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
We can’t have our cake and eat it. Either we gave the world the game, warts included or we didn’t.
Isolated incident. Now just who was that Scottish club in the 1890s whose amateur players went on strike for more money.
In a later era. How many of us honestly believe that up to the 1960s Celtic and Rangers players regularly went south to earn a maximum wage of £20. per week.
Livibhoy,
I never knew FIFA were thinking about kicking Israel out, does that help ?
Lb/canamaler
For the sake of clarity, Israel is not on the verge of being kicked out, some fruitcake posted they were,
Lily’s
SFA appoint the Sevco ‘go to guy’ Bobby Madden for their most important game in three years of existence.
Nice CSC
Big Nan
16:57 on
28 May, 2015
Thank you sir and I hope you are doing Grand, a fellow poster fae ye olde Swindon posted me that recently too.
1st day on colcichine tablets and the difference is fantastic already,
I keep track of you on twitter sir :))))))))))))
keep up the good work & thank you for being you.
Quonno,
I’ve no idea, what I do have an idea about is that national corruption is tiny compare to international incorporated corruption.
We may have introduced the game and the corruption of the game but it needed too many to buy into corruption for it to become a bedrock.
Theres a big difference between incident and norm, the times your talking about though rife with imperial corruption the game was new and had still to be set in its ways.
lilys grandpa
17:06 on
28 May, 2015
Lb/canamaler
For the sake of clarity, Israel is not on the verge of being kicked out, some fruitcake posted they were.
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Keyboard cleaner required -))))
Come on Motherwell. Silence them with a stunning victory. I won’t be watching the game. Couldn’t stomach another display of the horrible antics of the most anti-social fans in football, and that’s me being kind.
A Scott McDonald winner would be the icing on the cake.
With apologies to Neganon2. If the Huns win, I’ll be giving the blog a miss, so I won’t have to endure your customary gloating.
Just under 20% of males in the UK have got a tattoo.
80% CSC
No thanks, we have enough illegal aliens as it is, keep it in Europe……..
I would not mind if the Celts came over once every four years for a wee tour…
notafanoffootballtopsCFC……….HH
Tom,
Huns will win tonight. They’ve got to.
It’ll make skippys double in the return to eliminate them all the very sweeter :))
Burgas hoops,
Thank you
Lily’s
OOPS………
Tallybhoy
16:58 on 28 May, 2015
Fitba about to be Americanised?
The World Cup to be renamed the ‘Soccer World Series?’
Played in the States every four years?
HH!!
weeman67
17:14 on 28 May, 2015
No thanks, we have enough illegal aliens as it is, keep it in Europe……..
I would not mind if the Celts came over once every four years for a wee tour…
notafanoffootballtopsCFC……….HH
Canamalar
16:50 on
28 May, 2015
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
Sorry Canamalar. Corruption is simply corruption. If unchecked the smallest bad apple will rot the whole barrel
“You can judge a man by the company he keeps”
https://twitter.com/RhebelRhebel/status/603633710924242944/photo/1
LiviBhoy: “Have the SFA offered super football administrator and all round good guy Campbell Ogilvie’s services yet to sort out the FIFA mess?”
Do FIFA have the same handshake as the the SFA?
Auldheid @ 16:58
It doesn’t make sense for Celtic to pretend to be interested. It would have been easier to just reject the resolution.
lilys grandpa @ 17:06
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/fifa-should-give-israel-the-red-card.html
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/fifa-vote-to-kick-israel-out-of-world-football-conveniently-blocked-by-us-intervention
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32812288
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/05/19/soccer-fifa-palestine-idUKL5N0YA3CU20150519?irpc=932
“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.” A. Lee Martinez, Gil’s All Fright Diner
Burgas
Meant to add, congrats on your tip yesterday!!
And before you ask, I never took your advice, ya lucky bassa!!
Lily’s
Canamalar you used the word corruption 5 times in your last post,hope you got permission from NegAnon 2 to use it . Thought he had it copyrighted!! H H Hebcelt
leftclicktic
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Which one is on trial ?
Geordie Munro –
I’d settle for that :-)
Morrisey,
What I said was Israel was not on verge of being kicked out, because Pa/ Hama’s, were calling for a vote doesn’t change that,
Lily’s
Quonno,
Agreed, but for corruption to become the bedrock too many have to buy into it, that is what has happened.
Isolated incidents will always occur and cannot be considered the norm (bedrock).
No ?
Israel / Palestine / Blatter / FIFA.
Saw film on Italian tele re Blatter’s recent meeting with Netanyahu.
Blatter said this –
Palestine has submitted a Resolution re Israel to the soon come FIFA congress.
Only Palestine can sideline or withdraw that Resolution .If they don’t, the Resolution will be heard and voted upon.
He reiterated that a member country of FIFA could only be expelled from FIFA if and when that member country was deemed to be in breach of the conditions necessary for membership of FIFA
anyone on here thinking Motherwell will be ALLOWED to defeat sevco is deluded. For decades we have watched that team crawl from the gutter with a helping hand from SFA and the compliant media. This is honest mistake panto time.
Bada Bing,
hi mate,i was lurking last few days and noted you were talking about Brazil/nike and corruption.The name wanderley Luxemburgo may spring to mind.I recall reading an article about players there getting one cap and then being transferred to Europe for over inflated prices and of course profits for agents etc.This in part was due to players being part owned by different agents(Carlos Tevez when he came to West Ham etc).interesting chat tho mate.:-).a couple of articles may be of interest to you
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/24/world/huge-soccer-scandal-taints-national-obsession-of-brazil.html
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jan/14/newsstory.sport
hail hail :-)
Celtic Football Club@celticfc · 4 hrs4 hours ago
The men who kicked it all off for the Celts http://www.celticfc.net/news/4095
lilys grandpa
17:18 on
28 May, 2015
Burgas
Meant to add, congrats on your tip yesterday!!
And before you ask, I never took your advice, ya lucky bassa!!
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I studied form for all of 10 min’s …………then just guessed-)
lilys grandpa @ 17:20
When this fruitcake wrote ‘FIFA should not have threatened Israel. The sinner must be punished.’ I meant it.
stebhoy
from twitter
“All this talk of football corruption reminds me. @ScottishFA have appointed ex-RFC season ticket holder as ref for tonight’s crucial game”.
I’m staying out of the old FIFA debate. It’s a bit complicated.
In other news I spoke to my mate who is a Motherwell season ticket holder. He fears the worst tonight and says the current side are spineless.
He is not going to the Temple of Doom. Don’t blame him for that. He dislikes the Hun very much. He went to a few Celtic games with me as a lad. Certainly prefers us to to any team playing out of Ibrox.
LB