God bless America

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh, the guy that got the Morocco and South Africa bribes was Webb (it speaks of $10mil bribe, which had to go through FIFA eventually)!

[Dauphin]

Jeez. Morocco need a how to bribe for dummies book. Two failed attempts!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, here is the link to Blazer's plea:

http://www.justice.gov/opa/file/450231/download

[Dauphin]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jun/04/fifa-crisis-jack-warner-says-he-fears-for-life-and-will-reveal-avalanche-of-secrets

And change tune.

Warner is the subject of an Interpol red notice and was arrested and held in jail overnight in Trinidad last Wednesday, but was later released on bail.

He initially denied any wrongdoing, and said at the time he was “afforded no due process”.

Following his arrest, in a televised broadcast in Trinidad on Thursday, Warner claimed he had documentation that could prove a link between key Fifa officials and the 2010 Trinidad election.

“I will no longer keep secrets for them,” he said.

Warner makes allegations that the documents “also deal with my knowledge of transactions at Fifa, including – but not limited to – its president, Mr Sepp Blatter”.

Blatter has not yet responded to Warner’s allegations

Warner also apologised for not disclosing his knowledge of the alleged links previously.

“Not even death will stop the avalanche that is coming” he said. “The die is cast. There can be no turning back. Let the chips fall where they fall.”

I look forward to reading the revelations.

[C0ckney]

he says that he will reveal all he knows about coruption in FIFA. he's 72 now, so i think there's a real risk that he'll die of old age before he's finished.

[Sava]

HEY!!

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I like seeing your updates in FB

[kentonio]

The Irish FA apparently took $5m from FIFA to stop their legal action in the wake of the Thierry Henry handball costing them their World Cup place.

[Dauphin]

I'm waiting for the Brazil team to claim their World Cup thumping by Germany was just because of a bribe. They weren't really a pile of ****e.

[kentonio]

It would explain David Luiz's performances.

[pchang]

Jack Warner's own sons turned on him and now he's trying to implicate Blatter in election shenanigans in Trinidad and Tobago.

[kentonio]

There's not nearly enough popcorn in the world for this.

[-Jrabbit]

Apparently the FIFA communications director has forced himself to resign...

The first FIFA official to leave his post in the wake of the corruption scandal isn't Sepp Blatter, who, despite his resignation, remains in office until another election can be organized. It's his communications director, Walter De Gregorio.

On Thursday, FIFA announced in a statement that De Gregorio has decided to leave his post, but will remain with FIFA on a "consultancy basis" until the end of the year -- similar to Blatt's own resignation, except for the whole "I'm still in charge until I'm not" part.

De Gregorio, who joined FIFA in 2011, has been the soccer governing body's point-person since last month's arrests of 14 top officials on corruption charges. The morning of the U.S.-led arrests in Zurich by Swiss officials, De Gregorio was pushed to the forefront of the crisis, giving a grueling 30-minute press conference and offering FIFA's first response to the news. Given this public role in navigating communications for the embattled organization, Thursday's announcement comes as a surprise.

What could possibly explain it? Maybe this joke, which De Gregorio made on Swiss television on Monday:

“FIFA president Sepp Blatter, the director of communications, and the secretary general [Jérôme Valcke] are all sitting in a car -- who is driving?"

"The police."

[kentonio]