FIFA should be disbanded over Qatar debacle

FIFA should be disbanded and Sepp Blatter should resign as a result of the Qatar debacle.

Hear no evil.  Qatar debacle: what me worry?

FIFA and UEFA have given up on the original plan for futuristic air conditioned stadiums that were supposed to allow for a summer World Cup in Qatar.  They have approved moving the 2022 World Cup to winter and a showdown looms with the major European clubs in a year's time for their approval for the move.

What happened to the fancy air-conditioned stadiums we were promised?

I think the clubs would be crazy to allow this change to occur.  FIFA awarded the 2022 Cup to Qatar on the basis that it could be done in the heat of a Middle Eastern summer.   If Qatar will not host it in summer they should be stripped of hosting rights. But FIFA is not backing down.  This is why FIFA should be disbanded.

There were plenty of other hosts who could have hosted a successful summer Cup, and one host in the southern hemisphere where it would be winter in July -- Australia.   I think Frank Lowy and FFA are rightly aggrieved that FIFA wants to move the 2022 Cup to a northern hemisphere winter.

Any one of these (other) World Cup bidders would have been better than Qatar

The successful Qatar bid shows that FIFA is corrupt and easily bribed.  Every FIFA voting member with the possible exception of Franz Beckenbauer should resign for corruption in my opinion.

Qatar should be stripped of its 2022 hosting rights and a totally new FIFA should be built from the ground up.

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Michel Platini's 4+5 rule is a way to reel in the financial success of the English Premier League.  I don't agree with the proposal to limit foreign players at all, because I don't agree with the philosophy that you need that many home grown players, namely 5, playing in every team in the domestic competition in order to have a good national team.

Taking the example of England, if there are only 2 English players in every Premier League team that's still 2 x 20 = 40 players to choose from.  As it is about 68 English players will start in the EPL this season. Add a few more from the Championship and from outside of England and that's quite a lot of players to choose from.

In my opinion having lots of foreign players flood the English Premier league is only going to improve the standard and therefore the quality of players in the England national team.

I also think England should get 1 - 2 more Champions League places. Look at the great competition among the top six teams in the EPL. 

Odds to win EPL 26 Oct 2013

All six of the EPL's top teams (above) belong in the Champions League in my opinion.  But with the prevailing Anglophobia at UEFA led by continentalists like Platini I doubt that will happen any time soon.