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If UEFA actually pull out of the World Cup, he surely wouldn't survive that. Saying that 8 of the 10 teams capable of challenging for the World Cup are not going to be there would be a complete catastrophe in sporting terms, and is one of the only things that would surely do enough to actually make them go "oh, we might need to fix this".

Or, you know, Brazil and Argentina laugh gleefully as they are faced with the challenge of seeing off Australia and Ghana to win the whole thing.

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Concerning those votes from South America/North America, shouldn't we discount the ones who've been jailed/ran back to Brazil?

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Blatter basically said "If we hadn't given the World Cup to Russia and Qatar people wouldn't be mad."

This investigation started 24 years ago, they must have known in advance. People are less mad about Russia and Qatar (though they should be furious and protesting in the streets about a slave state building the World Cup with slave labor) than they are about the rampant corruption in the organization.

I would like it, from a basic human rights standpoint, if Qatar was stripped of the World Cup. Russia's got a lot of problems either but to my knowledge they aren't having migrant workers die to build a playground for the rich.

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Venezuela are abstaining too. Doubt it'll make much difference though if Asia and Africa vote Blatter as expected.

Yeah Africa and Asia hold 100 votes, assuming he wins most of those (Australia and presumably Jordan will vote against, but you'd expect Blatter to get 90 of the votes at least), he only needs a few Caribbean countries and he's in.
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Christ, no wonder nothing ever gets done. It's taken more than 15 minutes for Palestine to say 'We withdraw the motion' and now Israel has to make a speech saying 'Thanks'. Then they vote on a motion that has been withdrawn.

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