http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/italian-referee-out-buffons-world-cup-spot-in-question.html World Cup South Africa 2010 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:45:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/italian-referee-out-buffons-world-cup-spot-in-question.html/comment-page-1#comment-5013 libertino Tue, 23 May 2006 22:12:08 +0000 http://www.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2006/italian-referee-out-buffons-world-cup-spot-in-question.html#comment-5013 This whole thing is bullshit. While there is no difficulty in beleiving that Moggi and other "behind the scenes characters" have acted impropperly, the amount of coverage this has received before anything has been proven is most likely the result of pressures from Sepp Blatter himself - to draw attention away from his scandal-ridden career (all you have to do is google "Sepp Blatter corruption", David Yallop's book on Blatter, or Andrew Jenning's book "Foul", and you will find the depth to which this man is corrupt)and to give Italy, one of several football organisations Mr Blatter has problems with, a bad name going into the tournament. Check out what Blatter has been accused of by other countries, such as Spain and Turkey, and visit the 'play the Game site' and read "Ripping up soccer; the story behind the FIFA scandal" to understand how lesser teams such as Trinidad, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Angola have somehow managed to rise to the top of their groups. Let the guilty be proven guilty before denouncing everything and everyone. This whole thing is bullshit. While there is no difficulty in beleiving that Moggi and other “behind the scenes characters” have acted impropperly, the amount of coverage this has received before anything has been proven is most likely the result of pressures from Sepp Blatter himself – to draw attention away from his scandal-ridden career (all you have to do is google “Sepp Blatter corruption”, David Yallop’s book on Blatter, or Andrew Jenning’s book “Foul”, and you will find the depth to which this man is corrupt)and to give Italy, one of several football organisations Mr Blatter has problems with, a bad name going into the tournament. Check out what Blatter has been accused of by other countries, such as Spain and Turkey, and visit the ‘play the Game site’ and read “Ripping up soccer; the story behind the FIFA scandal” to understand how lesser teams such as Trinidad, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Angola have somehow managed to rise to the top of their groups.
Let the guilty be proven guilty before denouncing everything and everyone.

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