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1. Sepp Blatter step down as President of FIFA 
He's been President for 13 years. He's been involved in corruption scandals and telling women football teams to wear 'tighter short's'.
Mr. Blatter had suggested racism should be solved with a handshake. In any game of football discrimination, racism, race, colour, & sexual orientation should not be tolerated!!
Since becoming FIFA President in June 1998, Sepp Blatter has committed innumerable crimes against the sport of football, blatantly disrespecting the game, its players, its supporters, and its officials.
1)Mr. Blatters wildly inappropriate requests for womens football shorts to be made tighter border on the sexist.
2) There have been constant reports of vote rigging, financial corruption and financial mismanagement within FIFA with Mr. Blatter at the centre.
3) Allegations of corruption and financial irregularities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA#Allegations_of_financial_irregularities)
4)Refusal to implement modern goal-line technology to take pressure off referees and ensure fair play.
5) More recently, remarks made by Sepp Blatter condoning racism on the football field.
3. The F.A. should break away from FIFA and tell them where to stick their corruption
I firmly believe fifa is killing the sport, keep corruption out. Bribery, lies and backroom deals are all things that relate to fifa. Even David Cameron has said fifa's dealings are “murky”.
With fifa officials being probed and qatar hosting a world cup I think it's time to turn our back on fifa.
4. Introduction of video review in national and international soccer games
Introduction of video review in national and international soccer games.
FIFA is corrupt. Football fans should pressure national associations in their countries to leave FIFA and form a new world governing body for football.
FIFA is corrupt. Football fans should pressure national associations in their countries to leave FIFA and form a new world governing body for football.
FIFA is corrupt. Football fans should pressure national associations in their countries to leave FIFA and form a new world governing body for football.
FIFA is corrupt. Football fans should pressure national associations in their countries to leave FIFA and form a new world governing body for football.
9. Campaign to End Corruption within FIFA
The expose by the British media and the BBC Panorama programme on the 29th of November 2010 of the corruption within the FIFA Executive and the fact that they are largely ignoring it.
Since becoming FIFA President in June 1998, Sepp Blatter has committed innumerable crimes against the sport of football, blatantly disrespecting the game, its players, its supporters, and its officials.
Blatter has been involved in several scandals:
1. Allegations of corruption and financial irregularities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA#Allegations_of_financial_irregularities)
2. Blatant sexism towards female footballers in 2004 when he suggested that women should "wear tighter shorts and low cut shirts... to create a more female aesthetic" and attract more male fans
3. Refusal to implement modern goal-line technology to take pressure off referees and ensure fair play
11. The Gibraltar Football Association should be allowed in the UEFA!
The Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) was formed in 1895. It is one of the world's oldest football associations.
In 1997, the GFA applied to FIFA for membership. In 1999, FIFA confirmed that the GFA conformed to the requirements, thus handing the file on to the UEFA. In 2000, UEFA and FIFA conducted a joint inspection of the football related facilities and, in consequence, produced a report stating "The FA of Gibraltar fulfils all requisite statutory conditions for admission to UEFA”.
In August 2000, the report to UEFA leaked to the Spanish media, and in consequence, both the Spanish Government and its political parties started a campaign to prevent the GFA's application from succeeding on purely political grounds. The Spanish objections were solely based on their claim of Sovereignty on Gibraltar. None of their objections were based on any sport criteria.
In December 2000, the Executive Committee of UEFA decided to appoint three independent judges to consider the legality and validity of the Spanish claims. The independent legal panel issued a report on August 2001 rejecting the Spanish objections and stating "the GFA is entitled to provisional admission as a member of UEFA”.
The applying continues and you can carry on reading on this link... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibraltar_Football_Association
Please read as there is a lot more information there.
12. FIFA must introduce video referee NOW after decision against England
Call it flogging a dead horse, but the second pair of knockout matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup have made the need for goal-line technology even more pressing.
There's been plenty of talk this year of play-acting and diving bandied about as the usual (and justified) criticisms of the world game, but two moments in games of huge importance have revealed to the world what it already knew: referees need a lot more help than they're getting.
Not one person can deny Frank Lampard's goal should have levelled the scores between England and Germany.
Trailing at 2-1, having been outplayed for most of the first half, Lampard contrived to equalise for his country with a shot off the cross bar that cannoned back from behind the line, before the referee inexplicably ruled no-goal.
Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has admitted he conned Uruguayan referee Jorge Larrionda into ruling out Frank Lampard’s ghost goal.
The Schalke No 1 claimed the ball was around two metres over the line while German legend and former coach Jurgen Klinsmann branded the referee’s blunder a ‘disgrace’.
Neuer said: ‘I tried not to react to the referee and just concentrate on what was happening. I realised it was over the line and I think the way I carried on so quickly fooled the referee into thinking it was not over.'
FIFA! We want answers to your obvious match fixes! You fixed 2 matches (Argentina v Mexico and Germany v England) and we are tired of getting to the world cup without any chance of winning it.
14. Move New Zealand to the AFC!
New Zealand, a country east of Australia in the Oceania, is affiliated with the Oceania Football Association. Through 2007-2009, the team qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The team in previous years however, have not been able to achieve this. This is due to their affiliation with the OFC.
Because a OFC team is not guaranteed a spot in the World Cup, New Zealand have struggled.
If they move to the AFC, they are more likely to qualify. Also, there are more benefits.
1. If New Zealand move, the team improves. Because the team faces more competitive teams (Bahrain, Australia, Japan, Korea Republic, etc), they will be able to learn the "asian" style of playing.
2. Higher attendances. Due to lack of competitive games, the Westpac has often had less than 4,000 fans at the stadium. But due to more eager away fans and more confident home fans would shoot up attendances.
3. Rise of popularity in football. Again, because of more competition, the popularity of football would rise. More higher attendances and a better team would build more confidence and a better future in the beautiful game.
4. Smaller teams in the OFC would be likely to qualify, due to a more balanced qualification system and if FIFA can figure a way to give the OFC a automatic spot, the small teams get a chance. This is football, everyone deserves a chance at making it to the world cup.
There are probably more benefits, but with these 4 this could help build a future in football in New Zealand.
As it turns out Blatter & Co would rather have beautiful women in jail than in skimpy dresses.
Jokes aside, the issue is serious, being one which infringes on individual liberties. FIFA thinks they can dictate what people wear to football games, with threats of incarceration for those that fail to comply. If this court case is seen through there is a precedent that can lead to further abuse of the intellectual property laws that have been twisted to suit FIFA's purpose. It is highly questionable to have a sporting body decide how the laws of a nation should be written, causing the arrests of individuals based on these self-serving laws. FIFA has shown themselves to be driven not by sport but by profit.
The second you stop fighting for freedom is the second you start to lose it.
16. Reverse the Togo Cup of Nations Ban
We, the undersigned, believe that the decision to punish the Togo Football Team for withdrawing from the recent Cup of Nations to be a highly insensitive one that shows no respect to natural justice.
We understand that the reason for the ban and fine is the interference of the Togo government which did breach CAF regulations, but we believe that given the exceptional circumstances of the attack on the Togo Team bus, and the responsibility of the Togo government to the safety of its people, that the breach of the regulations on this occasion was wholly understandable.
We also note the failure of the CAF to provide adequate security to a team partaking in their tournament.
17. Replay Ireland vs. France World Cup Qualifying Match
On November 18th, 2009 Ireland took on France with a chance to qualify for the World Cup.
In the final seconds, however, France was allowed to get away with a blatant handball that caused Ireland to lose the game and any chance of qualifying for the World Cup as well.
Since then many surveys have been taken, all with the overwhelming majority crying for a rematch.
18. Boycott Gillette Razors as long as the sponsors stand by Thierry Henry
When Gillette launched its champions campaign in 2007, the US company said it had picked Henry because he embodied “true sporting values”.
We the undersigned feel that Thierry Henry has shown that sporting values fall low on his list of priorities with a blatant disregard for the sport as well as the fans during the second leg of the world cup qualifier in France and will boycott all Gillette products until Henry is removed as a spokesperson for the company.
19. Bring FIFA World Cup to England in 2018
Not since 1966 has England hosted a football World Cup.
The game was invented in England and the Premier League is clearly the best league in the world.
In 2018 the World Cup should be in England.
20. Russian Premier League as a free DLC on FIFA 10 next-gen!
A few months ago, EA Russia announced it would add the Russian Premier League on FIFA 10. However, It will only be for the PS2, PSP, and PC versions.
EA, why would you make one of the biggest mistakes for the game?
If you can't add them for the next-gen consoles like the Xbox 360 and PS3, then please, add them as a free DLC. It would make us happy!
21. FIFA World Cup 2010: Fans against Vuvuzela Noise
The Vuvuzela horn might indeed have a great tradition in South African football history (or as some state in African cultures in general) but the Confederations Cup 2009 clearly showed that this sustaining, monotonous noise that resembles the sound of a million bees over the whole length of a football match (do they stop during half time?!) is something you just can't bear hearing over your TV set.
Some people say that the Vuvuzelas are actually a lot of fun inside the stadium. Well, that may be. But they're not, coming out of TV speakers. Some say that as soon as you get one, you'll blow it too. Well, that may be. But I don't have one and blowing a horn in front of a TV would look damn stupid anyway. I am just a regular football fan. I really don't want to tell anyone how to support their team, especially not if they have a different cultural background. But this is not about home team support since it doesn't even seem to matter who's playing at all. So why is that issue being treated as a question of tolerance? We're talking about a nonstop, unvarying, monotonic sound, played for over one and a half hours (at every single match). Sound familiar? Some people would call that torture. How could that noise of a million bees ever sound pleasantly in any living room on this planet? This is not some sort of cultural misunderstanding but of what humans can hear without feeling uneasy. If in Bavaria people scratched chalk boards with their finger nails every time they're in a stadium, I would say exactly the same thing, so please don't start some sort of clash of civilizations over this.
Sorry about any possible mistakes here, I'm not a native English speaker, just some pissed off German dude with a bad post-Confederations Cup headache.
22. Il vrem pe Ciocanel inapoi in FIFA08!
Acum cateva zile, datorita infrangerilor usturatoare repetate administrate de catre Unicul Rege Ingy numitului Ciocanel, aceasta din urma a dezinstalat FIFA08. Iata si ultimele lui cuvinte pe aceasta tema: http://www.tenisclub.ro/Diverse/ultima_zi_de_fifa.jpg
23. Campaign to Sack Bungling Referee Manuel Mejuto Gonzalez
The 42 year old Accounts Manager from La Felguera, Spain shocked Football Fans worldwide as he gifted Italy a Free Kick after Alan Hutton was the victim of a heavy barge/tackle when he was nowhere near the ball, by Italian player Chiellini.
Everyone could see it as a Scotland Free Kick but somehow the bungling Manuel and his eejit of a linesman Juan Carlos Jimenez thought otherwise.
It was not the only decision he got wrong that day, but it was the most costly.
We wish we could replay the game again but this is the next best thing and we call on UEFA and FIFA to grow a pair of balls and finally sort out the bungling referees of the world.
We want Justice for Scotland and Justice for the lads who played their heart and soul out on the rain soaked Hampden pitch on Saturday 17th November 2007.
24. Call it Football
Every country should call the world game Football.
Let's abolish the name of soccer and call it as it should be "football".
"Soccer" should no longer exist and it should be called football, as used by a majority of countries.
Recently Jack Warner the Vice President of FIFA issued a statement containing
as key points:
"If the World Cup were to go to Europe, I'm quite sure, with the English luck as
it is, they won't get it," Warner told BBC World Service.
"There are moves to give it to England. I must fight that."
"Nobody in Europe likes England. England invented the sport but has never
made any impact on world football."
This has already caused a massive uproar on the BBC's 606 messanger boards
and all over England. It is percieved as racist, wholley inappropriate and a
disgrace to FIFA.
In 2006 he was involved in a scandal which even FIFA admitted violated their
code of ethics and no action was taken except to impose a fine totalling the
profits he made from the scandal. He has still only payed a quarter of this fine
despite constant reminders from FIFA and still no action has come.
July 21, 2006
Selfish Zidane has fooled Fifa
Arrogant French legend has sullied his own legacy
Article by Paul Doyle
Thursday July 20, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Zidane's chestbutt was excusable. Lots of people do stupid things when they're angry. And if he'd simply apologised for losing and misusing his head and accepted his punishment, Zinédine Zidane could have been forgiven. But instead he decided to play the victim and, in doing so, has cheapened the legacy of one of the game's greatest ever players: himself.
Throughout his sparkling career, Zidane has been hailed for his humility. We've constantly been told that he's just a timid family man who's never let success swell his ego and never forgotten where he came from. But his behaviour since the World Cup final has been disingenuous and self-serving, suggesting that this supposedly modest hero puts his own pride before the good of the game that made him.
Article continues
Zidane complained that Marco Materazzi insulted him and should be punished. He stressed that the insults were not racist, religious or political. In other words, they were the sort of playground taunts that have been heard in every sporting contest at every level since the dawn of time. Zidane has surely been on the receiving end of such insults throughout his life and career; and it would be incredible if the 34-year-old has himself never taunted or insulted an opponent. Indeed, it has been widely reported that he called referee Jorge Larrionda a "son of a bitch" during France's semi-final win over Portugal. In football, such vacuous insults have rarely been taken seriously, certainly not when between two players - they've merely been treated as relatively harmless valves through which players vent frustration, or crude ways of winding up adversaries. So did a dunderhead like Materazzi really manage to concoct a jibe so extraordinarily disturbing that it justified Zidane's attack and his demand for Fifa to take unprecedented action?
Or is Zidane simply too proud to admit that the pressure and emotion of the World Cup final and his last ever game led him to make a big drama out of the most humdrum of happenings? Is he arrogant enough to try to fool the world into believing that he, who had previously accumulated 13 red cards in his career, is of such impeccable moral fibre and professional rectitude that it would have taken something unimaginably heinous to blur his focus? Well, insofar as it prompted silly Fifa to retrospectively impose a two-game ban on Materazzi, Zizou's selfish ruse has worked.
Indeed, such is Zidane's mystique that he even managed to convince the French Football Federation to contradict themselves and speak to Fifa in his defence. This is the same FFF that last year appealed against one of its own disciplinary committee's decisions after Fabien Barthez, who had spat on a referee during a friendly, was dealt with leniently after explaining he was provoked. The FFF insisted the goalkeeper serve at least a six-month ban. The word 'hypocrisy' must be featuring heavily in Barthez's conversations tonight.
As for Fifa, now that they've been hoodwinked into declaring that swearing at someone is only marginally less objectionable than physically assaulting them and should be punished even if the referee doesn't hear it, how does the world governing body propose to eradicate harsh language? By making every player wear a microphone during matches and employing a squadron of eavesdroppers to monitor their utterances? If so, which jibes merit a yellow card and which deserve red? For how many games will a player be suspended for insulting an opponent's sister as opposed to, say, his cousin?
Conniving Zidane handed Fifa a jagged can-opener, and the clowns have released the worms.
Please sign the petition to bring justice and eliminate bias from the governing body FIFA.
Please click on the links to view the decision by FIFA and other information, and note that both players stressed the insults were not of racial nature.
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-07-21_1214953.html
