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Originally posted by jdollar:
BBC has an interesting podcast online now about the fall of FIFA upper management due to the Russian bid for 2018 and Qatar for2022. A lot of folks ended up in jail for offering and accepting bribes. Seth Blatter got the boot and heads of a lot of national African and other third world nation football association presidents got indicted. Russia bought their bid acceptance and so did Qatar. I loved it when the Iranian team refused to sing their national anthem today in protest of their authoritarian theocracy. Of course, they will probably all be dead or imprisoned in a few weeks.