FIFA vs FIA vs shady business

[Sulland]

FIFA has finally been taken with their trousers down, and several are arrested for corruption.
Football and Motorsport have one thing in common, big money are involved in different championships. Big sponsors, and large contracts are handled and given out.
FIFA has Sepp Blatter, FIA has Bernie Ecclestone.
I put this thread in the F1 forum, since there is where the big money is!!

How does it look inside our similar organisation FIA?
Will we find corruption there as well, if someone looked?

[AndyL]

How does it look inside our similar organisation FIA?
Will we find corruption there as well, if someone looked?


Surely not. Bernie already paid $100m to the Bavarian state to demonstrate that their charges of corruption were completely unfounded.

[journeyman racer]

How on earth did German law allow that?

How was a water tight 100 year contract allowed to go ahead?

[anfield5]

Sepp Blatter IS the FIFA president - rightly or wrongly, for better or worse, but Bernie IS NOT part of the FIA. So comparing the two and citing Bernie is quite incorrect. FIFA controls the commercial rights of its' tournaments, this is why there has been so many issues that have come to a head (well done the Swiss investigators and the FBI). F1 is odd in that the governing body the FIA dont have control, a private company CVC does through the Formula One Group and this is where Bernie's money grabbing nonsense is making a mess of the sport. An outside company is only interested in making profit for itself.

[driveace]

And Blatter at last after denying he would ,steps down
You can kid some of the people some of the time ,but not all of the people all of the time
Just how much money has the likes of Blatter,Webb etc had out of corruption !
And it took the Americans to act and arrest them ,after convincing a guy who was once in FIFA to wear a recording devise ,Well done ,but why not some other country having the balls
How will Bernie feel now ? As a lot of these guys thing the are "The Untouchables"

[anfield5]

I want to know why he resigned 4 days after he was re-elected. What did he have to gain, apart from costing FIFA a huge wad of cash in having to organise a new election?

It was suggested on the news this morning that he was informed of information the FBI had uncovered?

Driveace - 'Wiggy the house elf" has already survived court cases etc. He just seemingly reaches into his change purse and pays the system off.

[zako85]

I want to know why he resigned 4 days after he was re-elected. What did he have to gain, apart from costing FIFA a huge wad of cash in having to organise a new election?

Because he probably hoped originally that the FBI investigation will end at the charges against relatively minor FIFA officials that were already known before his election. However, days after he was elected Americans sent clear signal that the investigation will continue and they made a statement that the secretary general Jerome Valcke may have been implicated in some money transfer activities involving the 10M CONCACAF payout.

[pino]

Blatter ? He's been a disgrace for football, good riddance !!!

[anfield5]

Blatter ? He's been a disgrace for football, good riddance !!!

Amen to that

[Mekola]

Grondona passed away on time... But wonder who will defend the interest of South American teams and clubs now.