FIFA + UEFA & Putin's grubby cash. What will happen?

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Nothing at all will happen.

Euphemisms of "conflict" and shifting focus to really important matters, such as e.g. the Y word or Lucas Moura backing a democratically elected president.
 
Should a football club owned by one of Putin's closest mates be allowed to play in England?
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I knew the day I saw the first Gazprom-ad in a Champions League match that this would eventually become a problem.

Football and sports in general needs to tie it self up in strict ethical and moral stances.
You can't say on one side that politics does not have a place in sports while being fed from the hands of dirty money.

FIFA, UEFA, IOC, it's all a farce at this point.
 
I knew the day I saw the first Gazprom-ad in a Champions League match that this would eventually become a problem.

Football and sports in general needs to tie it self up in strict ethical and moral stances.
You can't say on one side that politics does not have a place in sports while being fed from the hands of dirty money.

FIFA, UEFA, IOC, it's all a farce at this point.
Exactly can be applied by rolling this up to the Government level too. It's the Governments that enable the deals to be done in the first place. The Oligarch money has been flashed before the eyes of MP's, taken money to lobby, taken money as shareholders (been made shareholders) within the companies that they own. Infiltration at the seats of power, interference of "free" elections. If the Governments are enabling and turning a blind eye then all those below (FIFA, UEFA, banking regulators, Fraud and law enforcement etc etc etc).

Literally, everyone has known what's been going on. Investigative journalists have been reporting on it for decades. What happens? Nothing.
 


What Dan fails to write in his piece is that his Newspaper in which this is published is owned by Evgeny Lebedev, who is a Russian-British businessman, who owns Lebedev Holdings Ltd, which owns the Evening Standard &The Independent. He is the son of the Russian billionaire oligarch and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev.

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Two years ago Lebedev was handed a peerage in the House of Lords he took the following title: Baron Lebedev of Hampton in our London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.

The 40-year-old – a close friend of Boris Johnson – reportedly had to ask Vladimir Putin for permission to call himself ‘Baron of Siberia’ – a request which, evidently, was granted. He will sit as an independent cross-bencher.

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Given nice little jobs to ex-cabinet ministers with zero experience of actually doing the job....


And this is before we even get into The Russia Report....
 
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Why?

We'd bank probably £5-£10m?
More important things than money. Imagine if the first team to lift a trophy in our new stadium was Chelsea with the Champions League. We’d never live it down. Given the cunts enough good days out in it since it opened. Heck even if it was City or Liverpool.
 
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