Posts Tagged "Sepp Blatter"

Racism has been the dark underbelly of football for decades. We’ve come a long way since the 1980s, where black players were mercilessly hounded by opposing fans, but despite the efforts to promote anti-racism education campaigns, racism still routinely rears it ugly head.

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced that world football’s governing body has adopted a new code of ethics in the wake of a series of damaging corruption scandals.

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Before I set foot in Australia, I was told by many that this country is one of the most racist nations on the planet.

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Did it cross the line? Or didn’t it cross the line? Or was it on the line? It’s a conversation that has taken place at water coolers and pubs since the 1966 World Cup Final, disputing controversial decisions of sporting games all over the world.

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A tragedy, if not a heartbreaking farce. That’s the message now coming from FIFA President Sepp Blatter on the use of penalties to decide the outcome of football matches.

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FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Sunday he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt football federation leaders, calling their dismissal “direct interference” by the Cairo government.

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Of all the half-brained ideas Sepp Blatter has been behind, the plan by FIFA to delay the upcoming Socceroos World Cup Qualifier in Melbourne to a 9.30pm kick-off definitely takes the cake and confirms Australia as the chump of Asian football.

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In some kind of weird parallel universe, where he is not the head of FIFA, Sepp Blater could almost be likeable.

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Seven seasons of the A-League and I have heard it called many things by its critics – It’s plastic. It’s fake. It’s boring. It’s sub-standard. It’s badly managed. And, to be honest, in the cruel light of day some of these points are valid and constructive.

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Britain’s sports minister led calls for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to resign on Thursday after the global football supremo played down the extent of racism in the sport.

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Sepp Blatter is the biggest clown in world sport. His body of work clearly surpasses that of any other and continues to drag FIFA deeper into irrelevance.

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FIFA president Sepp Blatter is hoping his new anti-corruption drive will ease the pressure on his scandal-hit organisation and bring transparency into the world body.

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Former FIFA vice president Chung Mong-joon has called FIFA president Sepp Blatter a “little brat” who dictatorially rules world football’s governing body.

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This week’s announcement that Mohammad Bin Hamman had been found guilty of corruption by FIFA probably raised few eyebrows.

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Banned Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam likened FIFA president Sepp Blatter to a “dictator” on Monday, and said bribery claims against him were the result of cultural misunderstandings.

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Suspended FIFA executive Jack Warner has reneged on a pledge to reveal details of an email exchange with President Sepp Blatter.

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After the Chairman of the FA David Bernstein’s honourable, but ultimately doomed, move to suspend the FIFA Presidential election this week, English football finds itself at its lowest ebb.

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The stubborn Caesar is alive and kicking as he continues governing ‘the family’. The chief of that colossus of world football, FIFA, remains intact. There were no candidates, or at least qualified ones, willing to take the place of Sepp Blatter.

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Stung by ongoing criticism of the system to choose World Cup hosts, FIFA President Sepp Blatter stripped the executive committee of its power on Wednesday and gave every federation a vote on future decisions.

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When football’s most powerful two dozen men gathered in Zurich last December to decide the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts, Australia was alone among the nine bidding countries without one of its citizens at the table.

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