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he said last week’s vote for the World Cup hosts was “perfectly organized, perfectly transparent and perfectly under control.”

How can the man have the gall to say that ? How can this organisation be allowed to continue with it's lies and it's riches from the sport ?

Chuck Blazer, a FIFA executive committee member from the United States, insisted “the process had not failed at all,”

Here is a typical example of an idiot FIFA executive. Only the other day Blazer was saying that the process had to change. And now he is saying the opposite !

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The selection process needs to be changed to remove the subjective human element. A scoring process should be created whereby countries receive points for things that can be verified and documented publicly for everyone to see. At the end, the points and other statisical data for each country would be entered into a software program that automatically selects the winner based on the strength of the bids and luck of the draw in cases where two or more countries have an equal standing.

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Each national soccer federation throughout the world (there are approximately 200) should be represented by an accountable professional (e.g a lawyer, a police officer) who will be the voting delegate for that country. Each delegate must receive and read every technical bid. All the delegates should be available on the day of the vote, but only 40 of them will actually be permitted to vote, randomly selected by a computer. The votes can be made securely online. This would eradicate the possibility of bribes because you would only have a 20% chance of getting to vote and someone would have to bribe at least 100 delegates to have any chance of your bribe affecting the vote.

The current system is ridiculous and corrupt, with idiots like Ogura from Japan making a deal amongst all the 'Asian' delegates to vote against the USA, regardless of how good the USA's bid was. All of the current FIFA delegates are puppets of Blatter, which makes it all the more ridiculous.

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1 more provocation and propaganda..its all about media giving more attention to what they can sell to the market. for a long time media give more about EPL or BPL and its become 1st league in the world but England not yet to show what their ability in World Cup. so they just good at the news rather than in the field..and its same about the vote, whether its linean or not, its lie or not the view so much about them but they can organize so that other countries too...many countries can organize also but can they just stand without media giving too much provocation? if they got the chance, the provocation will bitter and all news focus on them but its not worthy, because the worthy just goes to the media's pocket only..don't make politics inside soccer because soccer is fun and interesting already, no need more provocation. if there is need provocation, for me just a few is enough...

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for a l**on**g time media give more about EPL or BPL and its become 1st league in the world but England not yet to show what their ability in World Cup. so they just good at the news rather than in the field

The fact that England have a poor record in the World Cup has no connection whatsoever with their World Cup bid. Do Russia or Qatar have better World Cup records than England ? And, as you have already stated, if the English Premier League is such a success then the English should have decent credentials to organise a World Cup tournament.

don't make politics inside soccer because soccer is fun and interesting already, no need more provocation.

So maybe you can ask Mr.Ogura from Japan why he arranged with all the other Asian delegates to block-vote for Qatar against the USA ? Isn't that politics inside football ?

The BBC programme is not politics inside football by the way. It is journalism reporting on politics inside football.

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