If you're holding out hope that FIFA will strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup and hold a revote, prepare for disappointment. With his power re-solidified after his unopposed re-election as FIFA president last week, Sepp Blatter is now playing down the possibility of looking into the matter. Despite numerous allegations of Qatar bribing voters and FIFA's general secretary even saying in a private email that it "bought" the World Cup.
From the BBC:
"I don't know why we should open something because somebody has said something towards Qatar," he added.
"If this committee of solutions or the ethics committee have the impression that they should do something then let them take the decisions."
And just to prove once again that he doesn't take FIFA's problems at all seriously, Blatter also announced that his new "council of wisdom" -- which will help clean up the governing body -- could include an opera singer, a war criminal and an egotistical footballing legend. They'll be like The Avengers, except old, nonsensical and pointless.
From the AP:
Blatter hopes [Placido Domingo] the 70-year-old Spanish tenor will sit on a "council of wisdom'' alongside former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former Netherlands player Johan Cruyff.
Blatter told CNN on Monday that "these gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts.''
Defending the decision to approach the 88-year-old Kissinger, Blatter said: "He is an old man, but he is a wise man.''
Given the seemingly random selection of these individuals for such an odd and probably useless council, here are some other members I would like to propose:
-Mr. T
-Elmo
-The Ultimate Warrior
-Colin Farrell
-The reanimated corpse of Vincent Price
-A crash test dummy
-The drummer from A Flock of Seagulls
-Barney Gumble
Now that is a council of wisdom.
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