Manic Impressive
10th May 2011, 19:02
This time from former (English) FA chairman Lord Triesman.
Triesman - who was initially chairman of England's bid - made the allegations about Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi.
He said their behaviour was "below what would be ethically acceptable".
Triesman's specific claims are:
- Fifa vice-president Warner asked for around £2.5m to build an education centre in Trinidad, with the cash to be channelled through him, and later wanted £500,000 to buy Haiti's World Cup TV rights for the earthquake-hit nation, again to be channelled through him;
- Paraguay's Fifa member Leoz asked for a knighthood;
- Brazil's Fifa member Teixeira asked him [Triesman] to "come and tell me what you have got for me", with the implication being that he wanted something in return for his vote;
- Thailand's Fifa member Makudi wanted to be given the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team.
Triesman also claimed that Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore offered to support the England 2018 World Cup bid in return for the FA's backing for his controversial '39th Game ' proposal. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7254528.stm)
But Scudamore has claimed that Triesman's version of events is incorrect.
"I'm afraid David's recollection of the facts and the chronology is simply wrong in this instance," he said in a statement.
"I was, along with my organisation and our member clubs, always in full support of England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.
"It was discussed at numerous club meetings and that support was never made conditional on the International Round concept (39th Game), or anything else for that matter.
"In fact the league and its clubs had moved on from the idea of an International Round some time before the FA started structuring the 2018 Bid Company and associated positions.
"I will be writing to the select committee to provide them with the accurate facts in this matter."
MP Damian Collins said the Sunday Times submission regarding the 2022 World Cup vote claimed Qatar specifically employed a fixer to arrange deals with African members for their votes.
Mike Lee, the London-based public relations consultant who worked on Qatar's bid, said he was unaware of any payments being made.
Lee, formerly communications director of the Premier League, Uefa and London's 2012 Olympic bid, told MPs: "I was working at the highest level of that bid and talking at length with the chairman and ceo and saw no evidence of any of these allegations.
"My experience is I would have had a sense if such things were going on and I had no sense of that."
Two other executive committee members, Amos Adamu from Nigeria and Reynald Temarii from Tahiti, were banned by Fifa's ethics committee last year.
The latest twist means eight executive committee members, one third of the total 24, have either been alleged to have been already found guilty of impropriety in relation to the 2018 and 2022 bids.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9481461.stm
Hopefully this will prompt FIFA to clean up it's act a bit and finally get rid of Blatter.
Triesman - who was initially chairman of England's bid - made the allegations about Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi.
He said their behaviour was "below what would be ethically acceptable".
Triesman's specific claims are:
- Fifa vice-president Warner asked for around £2.5m to build an education centre in Trinidad, with the cash to be channelled through him, and later wanted £500,000 to buy Haiti's World Cup TV rights for the earthquake-hit nation, again to be channelled through him;
- Paraguay's Fifa member Leoz asked for a knighthood;
- Brazil's Fifa member Teixeira asked him [Triesman] to "come and tell me what you have got for me", with the implication being that he wanted something in return for his vote;
- Thailand's Fifa member Makudi wanted to be given the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team.
Triesman also claimed that Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore offered to support the England 2018 World Cup bid in return for the FA's backing for his controversial '39th Game ' proposal. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/7254528.stm)
But Scudamore has claimed that Triesman's version of events is incorrect.
"I'm afraid David's recollection of the facts and the chronology is simply wrong in this instance," he said in a statement.
"I was, along with my organisation and our member clubs, always in full support of England's bid for the 2018 World Cup.
"It was discussed at numerous club meetings and that support was never made conditional on the International Round concept (39th Game), or anything else for that matter.
"In fact the league and its clubs had moved on from the idea of an International Round some time before the FA started structuring the 2018 Bid Company and associated positions.
"I will be writing to the select committee to provide them with the accurate facts in this matter."
MP Damian Collins said the Sunday Times submission regarding the 2022 World Cup vote claimed Qatar specifically employed a fixer to arrange deals with African members for their votes.
Mike Lee, the London-based public relations consultant who worked on Qatar's bid, said he was unaware of any payments being made.
Lee, formerly communications director of the Premier League, Uefa and London's 2012 Olympic bid, told MPs: "I was working at the highest level of that bid and talking at length with the chairman and ceo and saw no evidence of any of these allegations.
"My experience is I would have had a sense if such things were going on and I had no sense of that."
Two other executive committee members, Amos Adamu from Nigeria and Reynald Temarii from Tahiti, were banned by Fifa's ethics committee last year.
The latest twist means eight executive committee members, one third of the total 24, have either been alleged to have been already found guilty of impropriety in relation to the 2018 and 2022 bids.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9481461.stm
Hopefully this will prompt FIFA to clean up it's act a bit and finally get rid of Blatter.