FIFA, IOC, etc.
Momentarily intrigued by a pointer in a friend's FB status, I looked at this: apparently there have been some refereeing controversies. The blogger criticizes FIFA because apparently the only mistake they'll admit to is that replays were shown and that they're trying to just make any dispute die down without having to confront it.
But what caught my eye was the final paragraph:
But the primary question remains - is it corruption at work or ineptitude compounded by embarrassment? To be honest, it almost has to be the latter. If the fix was in, you'd think they would at least try to be sneaky about it rather than purposefully ignore clear goals and blindly overlook offside infractions that even someone unfamiliar with the rule could spot. That's just stupidity. Then again, this is FIFA and whether it's protecting sponsor against poor street merchants and ladies in orange dresses or doing business through nepotism, subtlety has never been its strong suit.
All 3 of those links are interesting. I just saw the street vendor thing on the Daily Show -- they're not letting any unlicensed parties do any business within 1 km of the stadium, and the process for getting a license was allegedly extremely opaque/arcane. The orange dress thing has to do with "FIFA's iron-fisted protection of its official sponsors."
Now, where have we heard all of this before?
Which is worse, FIFA or the IOC? discuss.
Just out of curiosity:
FIFA corruption: about 877,000 results
IOC corruption: about 287,000 2.34 million results (I had some filtering options screwing this up originally)
This reminds me about the thing where an organization assembled to benefit some purpose X eventually evolves to the point where it exists solely to ensure the survival of the organization and not even about supporting X any more. Someone on my friends list should really write a book, perhaps even devoting an entire chapter to this concept.
But what caught my eye was the final paragraph:
But the primary question remains - is it corruption at work or ineptitude compounded by embarrassment? To be honest, it almost has to be the latter. If the fix was in, you'd think they would at least try to be sneaky about it rather than purposefully ignore clear goals and blindly overlook offside infractions that even someone unfamiliar with the rule could spot. That's just stupidity. Then again, this is FIFA and whether it's protecting sponsor against poor street merchants and ladies in orange dresses or doing business through nepotism, subtlety has never been its strong suit.
All 3 of those links are interesting. I just saw the street vendor thing on the Daily Show -- they're not letting any unlicensed parties do any business within 1 km of the stadium, and the process for getting a license was allegedly extremely opaque/arcane. The orange dress thing has to do with "FIFA's iron-fisted protection of its official sponsors."
Now, where have we heard all of this before?
Which is worse, FIFA or the IOC? discuss.
Just out of curiosity:
FIFA corruption: about 877,000 results
IOC corruption: about 287,000 2.34 million results (I had some filtering options screwing this up originally)
This reminds me about the thing where an organization assembled to benefit some purpose X eventually evolves to the point where it exists solely to ensure the survival of the organization and not even about supporting X any more. Someone on my friends list should really write a book, perhaps even devoting an entire chapter to this concept.