FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has made a scathing attack on the BBC Panorama programme examining the bidding to stage the 2018 World Cup. The furore follows an undercover investigation by The Sunday Times in October in which it was alleged that FIFA members Amos Adamu and Raynald Temarii asked for money in return for voting on World Cup hosting rights.
Warner, a government minister in Trinidad, is President of the Concacaf federation covering North, Central America and Carribean Association football, and could deliver three of the 22 FIFA executive member's votes to England. Stating that he still had to decide which way he would vote, spoke of his dissatisfaction with the Panorama investigation in a vehement e-mail to Press Association Sport.
"I am sure it's a personal vendetta. but it is sooooooooooo stupid... for it will have not effect on me personally or on anyone else in FIFA for that matter."
He has been invited to lunch in Zurich by Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the vote, and David Beckhammet him while opening a coaching clinic in Trinidad in September.
Sentences provided by The Daily Mail although rearranged by me to protect the innocent (what it does to the guilty, you decide.)
Monday, 22 November 2010
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Outrage as new Lloyds bank chief executive in line for £8.3m benefits package
The new CEO of Lloyds Bank has been named and it has been reveiled that he is in line to scoop £8.3m in his first year. His package includes a basic salary of £1m as well as annual bonuses, share awards and pension contributions which could take his total package to over £8m.
The appointment and renumeration packet has cause outrage within the general populace.
"It's a f*cking disgrace that people can earn such obscene amounts just for running a successful company and managing thousands of employees " commented a Mr W Rooney from Manchester (formerly from Liverpool) as he lay by a Dubai poolside during his 2 week holiday (pocketing a mere £500,000 whilst he was at it - not literally as that would have emptied his pocket, apparently). Other footballers earning more than £20k a week also voiced their outrage. "I have to run around for an hour and a half, sometimes even three hours to earn such extravagent sums."
Mr L. Scrounging-Bast (currently betwen jobs and 'supporting' his 25 children with child benefit and other welfare payments totalling £80k) is quoted as saying "This is typical of those bl**dy bankers, living outside the real world where we poor 'working' class types have to claim benefits to the bone to make ends meet. They're almost as bad as polititians, with them trying to milk the public purse as much as possible."
A middle class single male (earning £32k for a 86hr week and never having claimed anything from the state) simply put his head in his hands and silently wept.
The appointment and renumeration packet has cause outrage within the general populace.
"It's a f*cking disgrace that people can earn such obscene amounts just for running a successful company and managing thousands of employees " commented a Mr W Rooney from Manchester (formerly from Liverpool) as he lay by a Dubai poolside during his 2 week holiday (pocketing a mere £500,000 whilst he was at it - not literally as that would have emptied his pocket, apparently). Other footballers earning more than £20k a week also voiced their outrage. "I have to run around for an hour and a half, sometimes even three hours to earn such extravagent sums."
Mr L. Scrounging-Bast (currently betwen jobs and 'supporting' his 25 children with child benefit and other welfare payments totalling £80k) is quoted as saying "This is typical of those bl**dy bankers, living outside the real world where we poor 'working' class types have to claim benefits to the bone to make ends meet. They're almost as bad as polititians, with them trying to milk the public purse as much as possible."
A middle class single male (earning £32k for a 86hr week and never having claimed anything from the state) simply put his head in his hands and silently wept.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Teachers to be issued X-ray specs bought from 1950s comic
As a standard knee-jerk reaction, teachers unions will now probably insist that all their members who selfishly volunteer to be first aiders (at the insistance of 'couldn't give a f*ck until it's likely to be someone else's fault' parents) are issued with a pair of X-ray specs which have only ever been available in the back of comics from the 1950s.
According to one anonymous source, "How the hell are we supposed to tell if some klutz has broken their arm if we, as professional educators, aren't allowed to slice them open and perform explorative surgery or have a really big X-ray machine that even the hospitals can't afford?"
Another added "I'm not allowed to be a first aider as my union considers it an extra curriculum activity and outside the scope of my union membership as a teacher, therefore they wouldn't support me if I failed to diagnose something even if I wasn't humanly capable of it, especially if it was on a union negociated break period. I want to help out but my hands are tied and I don't want to get sued."
A Government official pointed out "By buying equipment from comics in the 1950s we have ensured that the purchase has not been subject to the extorionate price rises which have occurred over the last 30 years.
A teachers union official said something but it sounded like a bunch of b*llocks so we didn't bother listening.
Link to story
According to one anonymous source, "How the hell are we supposed to tell if some klutz has broken their arm if we, as professional educators, aren't allowed to slice them open and perform explorative surgery or have a really big X-ray machine that even the hospitals can't afford?"
Another added "I'm not allowed to be a first aider as my union considers it an extra curriculum activity and outside the scope of my union membership as a teacher, therefore they wouldn't support me if I failed to diagnose something even if I wasn't humanly capable of it, especially if it was on a union negociated break period. I want to help out but my hands are tied and I don't want to get sued."
A Government official pointed out "By buying equipment from comics in the 1950s we have ensured that the purchase has not been subject to the extorionate price rises which have occurred over the last 30 years.
A teachers union official said something but it sounded like a bunch of b*llocks so we didn't bother listening.
Link to story
Friday, 17 September 2010
Notts CC win County Championship
I have to admit that when I saw the news tickertape scrolling across the bottom of the screen in the pub yesterday I stood there gobsmacked. Firstly, I hadn't noticed that they had changed the channel to put the cricket on (last time I'd looked up from the paper Inspector Morse was on). Secondly, as only an hour earlier when I last checked the scores on the internet it didn't look as though Notts had a chance of getting the required bonus points.
Somehow, in that hour Notts had not only reached 400 runs to give them maximum batting points (starting the day 89-2 with no bonus points at all), they had also gained enough bowling points to tie with Somerset (who were set for a draw but with maximum bonus points) and take the title due to more wins. Notts were required to take 3 wickets in the remaining 16 overs of the day. To demonstrate how much Notts were reluctant to lose the title as a result of a heavily rain affected game, the wickets tumbled in only 4.4 overs.
Now, congratulations to Notts on pulling victory from almost certain disappointment, but surely it shouldn't have waited until the very last hour of the championship to win the title. From being dominant for the majority of the season, coming into the final straight they seemed to lose their nerve and with 2 disappointing defeats going into the last game all seemed to be going wrong. Instead of having a nice comfortable lead Notts went into the final game only 2 points ahead on Somerset. With the first day almost completely written off by rain it didn't start too well for either club. Unfortunately for Notts, the sun came out in Durham whilst in Manchester the rain still fell - all day. With the third day also heavily affected by downpours it looked as though it was all over for Notts. Somerset started the final day having achieved a maximum 8 bonus points to Notts' 0. So for Notts to pull the required result from the fire is an even more commendable achievement.
Well done, but please don't do that to me again next year.
Somehow, in that hour Notts had not only reached 400 runs to give them maximum batting points (starting the day 89-2 with no bonus points at all), they had also gained enough bowling points to tie with Somerset (who were set for a draw but with maximum bonus points) and take the title due to more wins. Notts were required to take 3 wickets in the remaining 16 overs of the day. To demonstrate how much Notts were reluctant to lose the title as a result of a heavily rain affected game, the wickets tumbled in only 4.4 overs.
Now, congratulations to Notts on pulling victory from almost certain disappointment, but surely it shouldn't have waited until the very last hour of the championship to win the title. From being dominant for the majority of the season, coming into the final straight they seemed to lose their nerve and with 2 disappointing defeats going into the last game all seemed to be going wrong. Instead of having a nice comfortable lead Notts went into the final game only 2 points ahead on Somerset. With the first day almost completely written off by rain it didn't start too well for either club. Unfortunately for Notts, the sun came out in Durham whilst in Manchester the rain still fell - all day. With the third day also heavily affected by downpours it looked as though it was all over for Notts. Somerset started the final day having achieved a maximum 8 bonus points to Notts' 0. So for Notts to pull the required result from the fire is an even more commendable achievement.
Well done, but please don't do that to me again next year.
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