Blatter

[jjandellis]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9341291.stm

Speaking before the vote, Blatter said: "All these successes have created a lot of envy and jealousy in our world because you cannot satisfy everybody.
"The success story of Fifa can continue because we are in a comfortable situation, despite the criticism given to Fifa. We have the power and the instruments to go against any attacks that are made."

Arrogant pr*ck!!!!!!

Fully agree with Uli Hoeness...

[WarBwastard]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

[boldie]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

[WarBwastard]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

[kinboshi]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Probably not as homophobic though.

[boldie]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

[WarBwastard]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

Jaysus Boldie I do hope this you're joking. Castro is/was a murdering torturing dictator.  Sepp Blatter is someone in charge of football.

[boldie]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

Jaysus Boldie I do hope this you're joking. Castro is/was a murdering torturing dictator.  Sepp Blatter is someone in charge of football.

Erm, no i'm not. you can say a lot of things about Castro but he is not corrupt.

[WarBwastard]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

Jaysus Boldie I do hope this you're joking. Castro is/was a murdering torturing dictator.  Sepp Blatter is someone in charge of football.

Erm, no i'm not. you can say a lot of things about Castro but he is not corrupt.

It's only January and that has to be jaw-dropping statement of the year already.  I'd love to see you argue that point with a real Cuban, one who'd managed to escape from the place of course and could argue his point without the obvious consequences should he do so in Cuba.  Castro has remained in power by murdering and torturing literally hundreds of people over 50 years.  What is your definition of corrupt? He's a corrupt megalomaniac as most dictators are and Cubans bare the brunt of it.  That's why so many people every year risk their lives trying to make it to the USA on an inner tube.  How you can possibly say Castro is not corrupt is astonishing.  He's a monster and his brother is even worse.

[gatso]

he stole the trillion dollar note from mr burns

[WarBwastard]

he stole the trillion dollar note from mr burns

Did he?  I didn't know that.  Such a bastard.

[boldie]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

Jaysus Boldie I do hope this you're joking. Castro is/was a murdering torturing dictator.  Sepp Blatter is someone in charge of football.

Erm, no i'm not. you can say a lot of things about Castro but he is not corrupt.

It's only January and that has to be jaw-dropping statement of the year already.  I'd love to see you argue that point with a real Cuban, one who'd managed to escape from the place of course and could argue his point without the obvious consequences should he do so in Cuba.  Castro has remained in power by murdering and torturing literally hundreds of people over 50 years.  What is your definition of corrupt? He's a corrupt megalomaniac as most dictators are and Cubans bare the brunt of it.  That's why so many people every year risk their lives trying to make it to the USA on an inner tube.  How you can possibly say Castro is not corrupt is astonishing.  He's a monster and his brother is even worse.

Corrupt, IMO, is taking bribes and stealing money intended for his own people and dumping it into his own Swiss bank account. This he does not do. Cuba as a country does have a massive issue with institutionalised corruption but you are the first person I have heard to call Castro himself corrupt.

With regards to him being a monster...well that's your opinion obv. I understand very well why Cubans flee their country in search of a better life and why people don't like Castro. (Though the American politicians and media are obviously a joke when it comes to the Cuban issue) I also know that he has done some very distasteful things in the past. Quite a few of these things were obviously provoked and quite a few of these things were obviously just not on but he is not even close to being top of the tree when it comes to that sort of thing.

But that does not make him corrupt.

[WarBwastard]

Blimey swap FIFA for Cuba and that could have been written by Castro. 

Except that Castro isn't corrupt.

Erm..well perhaps just a bit

Compared to Blatter, he isn't (and even then he isn't really from what I have seen in Cuba)

Jaysus Boldie I do hope this you're joking. Castro is/was a murdering torturing dictator.  Sepp Blatter is someone in charge of football.

Erm, no i'm not. you can say a lot of things about Castro but he is not corrupt.

It's only January and that has to be jaw-dropping statement of the year already.  I'd love to see you argue that point with a real Cuban, one who'd managed to escape from the place of course and could argue his point without the obvious consequences should he do so in Cuba.  Castro has remained in power by murdering and torturing literally hundreds of people over 50 years.  What is your definition of corrupt? He's a corrupt megalomaniac as most dictators are and Cubans bare the brunt of it.  That's why so many people every year risk their lives trying to make it to the USA on an inner tube.  How you can possibly say Castro is not corrupt is astonishing.  He's a monster and his brother is even worse.

Corrupt, IMO, is taking bribes and stealing money intended for his own people and dumping it into his own Swiss bank account. This he does not do. Cuba as a country does have a massive issue with institutionalised corruption but you are the first person I have heard to call Castro himself corrupt.

With regards to him being a monster...well that's your opinion obv. I understand very well why Cubans flee their country in search of a better life and why people don't like Castro. (Though the American politicians and media are obviously a joke when it comes to the Cuban issue) I also know that he has done some very distasteful things in the past. Quite a few of these things were obviously provoked and quite a few of these things were obviously just not on but he is not even close to being top of the tree when it comes to that sort of thing.

But that does not make him corrupt.

Utter tripe Boldie really.  You'll be claiming Hitler was misunderstood next.  Bloody Germans.

[Nico29]

Totally with warbwastard on this one.

How anyone can say castro is not corrupt is truly amazing.

[boldie]

lol @ comparing Hitler and Castro....you are soo far off it's just wrong.

Corrupt from the dictionary

1. lacking in integrity; open to or involving bribery or other dishonest practices a corrupt official corrupt practices in an election
2. morally depraved
3. putrid or rotten
4. contaminated; unclean
5. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of a text or manuscript) made meaningless or different in meaning from the original by scribal errors or alterations
6. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) (of computer programs or data) containing error

I mainly see corrupt, when it refers to politicians, as falling under nr 1.

This wikipage is pretty much how I see corruption with regards to politics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption

It is easy to argue cronyism in Castro's Cuba but then again this is easy to argue in any society.


We might just be arguing semantics here though. When you say someone is corrupt I read that as above...Castro might be a monster (In your opinion) but he does not run your standard corrupt dictatorship.

With regards to Castro himself; I have no massive problem with Castro (For all that he has done some nasty shit to his opponents) and firmly believe most of the problems as published, mainly in America, are exaggerated. Castro really isn't the devil as shown on American telly or in American programs.

Cuba is poor as feck (Thanks to the American trade embargo, which really is just a massive joke) and life for most Cubans is very difficult indeed but I found most Cubans (in Cuba) to be very open about the issue they are facing and in their opinions with regards to what Castro does right and wrong. (Which they were, much to my surprise, very willing to discuss)