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2010 FIFA World Cup - why I won't support it!

2010 FIFA World Cup - why I won't support it!
Posted Mon, 06/07/2010 - 08:28

The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandal
Excerpt, PDF format, 89KB, 17Pages
* Publisher: HarperSport (2 May 2006)
Author: Andrew Jennings
ISBN-10: 0007208111
ISBN-13: 978-0007208111
http://www.transparencyinsport.org/downloads/files/FOUL_EXTRACT.pdf

Player and Referee
Conflicting Interests and the 2010 FIFA World Cup (TM)
Edited by Collette Schulz Herzenberg
ISS Monograph Series No 169, April 2010
http://www.iss.co.za/uploads/Mono169.pdf

"six case studies written by investigative journalists from South Africa and Britain, charge that competing interests among those seeking to benefit financially have left preparations for the 2010 World Cup vulnerable to “manipulation through the use of influence, political pressure, bribes, fraud and extortion.”
http://southafrica-pig.blogspot.com/2010/05/corruption-in-fifa-and-2010-...

"They promised us they were going to build new houses, clean water, sanitation, tarred roads, infrastructure – but it never happened. It's the politics of South Africa – most of them are corrupt. They put corruption first instead of helping the country. This province, Mpumalanga, is best in corruption."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jun/03/nelspruit-world-cup

Cape traders to be moved ahead of World Cup
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-04-26-cape-traders-to-be-moved-ahead-of...

"Why is it that governments can find billions of dollars for global sporting events and little to deal with the grinding poverty that affects impoverished populations? "
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18303

"Fifa’s terms and conditions for the accreditation of journalists state that news organisations may not “harm the reputation of the Fifa World Cup” or “engage in conduct which expresses … charity or ideological concern (sic) related views, which could impair the enjoyment of the Fifa World Cup by other spectators, or detract from the sporting focus of the Fifa World Cup”. Well, I have news for Fifa: these conditions are most probably unconstitutional. " Pierre De Vos.
http://constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/fifa-world-cup-bad-for-human-right...

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Morgause's picture

Dilemma

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 17:10 — Morgause

Makes one think long and deep! Some of us, however, are directly involved in the running of FIFA stadia and supplying goods to the hospitality industry which will host the thousands of tourists who will visit our country during this period. How can we show solidarity with your sentiment, without losing our jobs. It is a real dilemma.

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Charles's picture

The thing about this is:

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 07:28 — Charles

On my way in to the 'orifice' yesterday, it struck me that the entire SWC debacle is nothing but a marketing exercise... There is NOTHING of lasting value in the SWC whatsoever - who CARES which particular bunch of overpaid prima-donna ham-actors actually wins the whole shebang?

The truth of the matter is that the ONLY people who have benefited and who continue to benefit - here I'm talking REAL terms, not just a period of temporary employment and a relatively minor upsurge in income and profits, here today, gone tomorrow - are the marketers, the organisers, and (especially) the politicians.

For everybody else it's nothing but an illusion of prosperity and common wealth, a flash in the pan as it were.

Bottom line: those South Africans who were promised the most from the SWC are the ones who will receive the least, and who have been and will continue to be the most exploited and marginalised sector of society. Nothing has or will change for them.

But to express this fact in public is to attract a chorus of condemnation and accusations of colonialist negativity. It's interesting how the constitutional right to freedom of expression has spawned nothing if not violent, condemnatory, and negative expressions of personal insecurity and mob-mentality, rather than the intended shining examples of open-minded non-prejudicial expressions of personal beliefs and viewpoints originally foreseen.

As the xtian bible says in 1 Timothy 6:10 "Love of money is the root of all evil". Never has a truer word been spoken...

Rayne Selene's picture

Well said everyone

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 10:56 — Rayne Selene

:)

Erebos's picture

Kicking balls

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 19:16 — Erebos

“Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.” - Ron Bolton

“It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organise games in which they can kick and beat balls.” - George Bernard Shaw

NOT IN ANY WAY RELATED TO SOCCER, BUT... :

“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.” - Robin Williams, 1982

Charles's picture

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Thu, 06/10/2010 - 20:45 — Charles

Thanks, Erebos! About the only thing in the last week or two that's made me smile!