Articles tagged with "sepp-blatter"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 1st, 2007
Details, details. It turns out those widely reported stories about the 2006 World Cup final attracting one billion television viewers might have been slightly ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 28th, 2007
Every couple of weeks FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter crawls out of his undisclosed cave to give his thoughts on the world's game. Today ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 15th, 2007
Like many football fans around the world, FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter was left with a bit of an unpleasant taste in his mouth after ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 8th, 2007
FIFA czar Sepp Blatter apologized today for not being part of the World Cup trophy presentation after Italy's win in the final in Berlin. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Dec 6th, 2006
The world's football governing body showed again today that it plays by an entirely different set of rules than anyone else in this world. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Nov 29th, 2006
Sepp Blatter's bank account is happy today with the announcement that Germany's World Cup organizing committee earned a net profit of 56.5 million euros from ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Nov 14th, 2006
FIFA czar-for-life Sepp Blatter seems to have an on again, off again relationship with South Africa. After heading there a few weeks back to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 24th, 2006
If it seemed to you like a lot of players were faking injuries at the 2006 World Cup your intuition was correct. FIFA's chief ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 23rd, 2006
The FIFA ethics committee met for the first time Monday and pledged to address corruption, doping, racism and match fixing in football.
After that they will ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 16th, 2006
A leading football administrator says that the six confederations are set to restructure the way FIFA is run so that the confederations have more power ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 27th, 2006
FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter has come out today with public statements in favor of getting rid of penalty shootouts in the World Cup final. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 26th, 2006
The Guardian today details allegations that Nicolás Leoz, a Fifa executive committee member and long-serving president of Conmebol, the South American football confederation, took bribes ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 15th, 2006
If you are worried about the slow pace of stadium construction in South Africa and are concerned the country might not be ready to host ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Aug 2nd, 2006
Now that the dust has settled and FIFA honcho Sepp Blatter is back home in Switzerland counting the gazillion dollars he made through World Cup ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 12th, 2006
Like that grumpy neighbour you had growing up, Sepp Blatter is threatening to take away Zidane's Golden Ball.
Zidane may feel he won the award ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 7th, 2006
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is always good for starting a debate and today is no exception. The head honcho is beating one of his ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Chriso | Jul 4th, 2006
The French players got a Hollywood welcome in Munich when Thierry Henry and Lilian Thuram met up with director Spike Lee who's a friend of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 4th, 2006
This World Cup will be remembered for a few things and one of them will be the record number of yellow and red cards handed ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Shawn | Jun 30th, 2006
This is just frickin' weird.
Not that anybody can remember asking or giving a rip, but Sepp Blatter apparently doesn't care for England's form: "I ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 30th, 2006
Yesterday, FIFA president Sepp Blatter criticized England's style of play thus far in the World Cup. "I am happy that play is very offensive. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 27th, 2006
Football is a people's sports. It belongs to the people. Yeah right... Today, professional football (emphasis on the word professional) is owned by FIFA. We ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 26th, 2006
Well what do you know...M. Blatter agrees with 98% of those reading this blog in that the referee was AWFUL yesterday. That makes me ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 7th, 2006
My colleague and caretaker of this website, Bob Kellett, recently wrote an interesting piece entitled "Referees vs. The Devil". Interesting timing in light of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 6th, 2006
When Germany lines up to take on Costa Rica on Friday they'll have the added advantage of knowing that their opponent's homeland is full of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 5th, 2006
Much attention is being paid to the refereeing in this year's World Cup, in part because the referees were less than spectacular in 2002. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 24th, 2006
Sometimes I fear that I am the only one appalled by that embarrassing jackass Sepp Blatter. How the man stays in charge of FIFA ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Sean Keener | May 12th, 2006
After my morning World Cup read, I got out my digging deep blogger pants to find that scoop that no one else knows about. ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Harvey Morrell | May 10th, 2006
FIFA President Wants 'Evils' Out of Game. Is this a job for The Shadow? Or is Sepp (der Dep) just starting his re-election campaign a ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | May 4th, 2006
FEF chief Luis Chiriboga confirmed that all ten of the CONMEBOL confederations reiterated their support of the current round robin World Cup qualification scheme used ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | May 3rd, 2006
"If it ain't broke, fix it." Or so says the High Tinkerer, Sepp Blatter. The South American football confederation, CONMEBOL, has expressed to ...
