UEFA Discussing Boycotting the FIFA World Cup

[Leicesterpool]

It does feel like Fifa arent bothered about a uefa breakway infact they seem to expect it. For them even though if uefa nations walk away losing of course 100 and 100s millions they are set to earn more with this new scheme. So fifa dont lose out. 

[Raj]

1 hour ago, Sly said:

It seems whoever they put in, is bent by power.

I'd love a go for a year, not a bad gig at £6 mil a year!

[Sly]

8 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

It does feel like Fifa arent bothered about a uefa breakway infact they seem to expect it. For them even though if uefa nations walk away losing of course 100 and 100s millions they are set to earn more with this new scheme. So fifa dont lose out. 

FIFA don't lose out, until the breakaway competition becomes more popular. 
 

For instance if the South American, African and Asian teams join together to co-ordinate a competition every two years, FifA effectively ceases to exist.

 

Those individual confederations just need to co-exist…. 

[MPH]

1 hour ago, Raj said:

I'd love a go for a year, not a bad gig at £6 mil a year!

 

plus all the unowned gold bars you find when out walking the dog 

[MPH]

Czech Republic FA have just come out in support of Infantino’s plan.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, Raj said:

I'd love a go for a year, not a bad gig at £6 mil a year!

I'd retire after a couple of months, I'm not greedy.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, MPH said:

Czech Republic FA have just come out in support of Infantino’s plan.

They can sod off to Afcon!

[LCFCCHRIS]

Infantino's little interview is f*cking diabolical. 

Says the fans are the cornerstone then goes on to say more commercialisation is the natural evolution. What fan wants to spend MORE on tickets? To see MORE ads, to have MORE corrupt rule bending. 

None.

 

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, LCFCCHRIS said:

Infantino's little interview is f*cking diabolical. 

Says the fans are the cornerstone then goes on to say more commercialisation is the natural evolution. What fan wants to spend MORE on tickets? To see MORE ads, to have MORE corrupt rule bending. 

None.

 

You can see how he's perfecting the art of doublespeak after working with his (literal) partner in crime who is in charge Stateside right now. 

[Jattdogg]

2 hours ago, MPH said:

Czech Republic FA have just come out in support of Infantino’s plan.

Soon we will hear the US is threatening european nations with higher tariffs if they dont accept lol.

[foxile5]

It's like anything that America gets it's talons into - it becomes a cash grab.

 

THIS ISN'T TO SAY AMERICANS ARE BAD PEOPLE BEFORE ANYONE COMES GRIPING IN.

 

The issue with American involvement is their hyper-capitalist social structure. They see something popular and consider it in financial, and not cultural, terms. Oh, look, soccer is saleable. How can we maximise advertisement revenue? How can we extract some money from this.

 

It is the issue with their involvement in anything global. Apply it to war, to music, to politics. The bottom line is money with the Americans.

 

THIS ISN'T TO SAY AMERICANS ARE BAD PEOPLE BUT AN OBSERVATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE AMERICAN RULING CLASSES ON THINGS.

 

For someone like Infantino, a more greedy and corrupt version of Blatter, who doesn't seem to have the ethos of sporting competition and football at heart, American and Saudi involvement is the holy grail. A load of cash washing into the sport in exchange for control over the soul of football.

 

It's why I've always been so vocally critical of any advancement towards Americanisation - it only ends one way. Don't think that Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhany are ACTUALLY in it for the love of Wrexham. They're just acting. It's all a show. Don't think that the 14+ American owners of Premier League clubs are interested in the heritage and history of English football. They aren't. It's all a show. Don't think that America wanted to hold the World Cup for cultural or sporting reasons. It didn't. 

 

All of it is for money.

 

And before anyone's tempted to point out the obvious - yes I know money is important and plenty of other nations are obsessed. But in America money is THE most important thing. We can still just about hold on to some type of moral compass when it comes to sport across the majority of the rest of the world.

 

Get 'em the **** out of organised sporting events and let them compete in their own closed-shop World Series of sports nobody else plays.

[ajthefox]

I really hope Uefa show some teeth on this, but I won't hold my breath.

Fvck Fifa and Infantino.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

1 hour ago, foxile5 said:

THIS ISN'T TO SAY AMERICANS ARE BAD PEOPLE BEFORE ANYONE COMES GRIPING IN.

 

They are though

[Corky]

UEFA's statement was bold but any long standing football fan will be cynical and expect a response along the lines of "We reluctantly accept..." .