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FIFA president Sepp Blatter at the launch of the official 2010 Adidas World Cup ball Luigi Bennett/Sports Inc/Press Association Images

FIFA scandal ruffles the feathers of big brand sponsors

Coca-Cola, Adidas and Visa are among the companies who’ve expressed concern over allegations of corruption at the world’s football governing body.

EMIRATES AIRLINES AND Visa are the latest big name brands are joining some the the world’s footballing authorities in expressing concern about allegations of corruption within FIFA, the world’s football governing body.

The Financial Times reports that that Emirates and Visa, who are World Cup sponsors, are echoing concerns expressed by Coca-Cola and Adidas in the wake of the bribery allegations against two members of FIFA’s executive committee.

The English and Scottish FAs have asked that FIFA postpone a  planned presidential election scheduled for tomorrow.

Emirates Airlines has released a statement saying it hopes the issues will be resolved as soon as possible , while Visa is calling on FIFA to “take all necessary steps to resolve the concerns that have been raised”.

Reuters reports that Coca-Cola feels that “the current allegations are distressing and bad for the sport”. The drinks company is one of the largest corporate sponsors of FIFA. Adidas says that while the scandal is “neither good for football nor for FIFA and its partners”, it will continue its long partnership with the organisation.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 1:21 PM

    Might have been a good idea to check all that out before offering it to our kids luckily my wife was against it

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 1:14 PM

    Awh great, i knew there was a reason why i shouldn’t of got this.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 5:10 PM

    At the time in Poland the Polish Health Minister would not grant permission for use because as a Doctor she said it had not been fully tested. Looks like she was right in some cases.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 3:29 PM

    What about pregnant women being given this vaccine – wonder if they really know its effects on the unborn child.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 2:28 PM

    I go it, as did my partner when the twins were getting their 6 months vaccinations. We both felt so desperate after it that we decided we weren’t going to give it to them at all…Boy am I happy now :)

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 5:41 PM

    Great now the idiots that are against vaccines will think they’re right all along just because of this little issue (in the big picture of things)

    Of course many of these fools will claim vaccines cause autism but then they will convinently forget that the research they refer was proven to be false and misleading.

    If these people think vaccines are so evil then they should take their chances with polio etc and see how their lives are

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 6:51 PM

    Let people look up “narcolepsy”, then “swine flu”, and decide which is worse. I’m still glad I got the jab last yea…zzzzzzzz.

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    Jul 26th 2011, 7:25 PM

    IT AINT JUST A LITTLE ISSUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 6:48 PM

    I was always against this flu jab. How many people went like lemmings to their doctors with their kids without checking the back round. Its actually banned in a number of european countries! I’m sorry but I just don’t trust GPs to give me safe medicines. Drug company’s force pharmacies and doctors to administer certain drugs by withholding best selling painkillers and other medicines. A pharmacist told me this on the record.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 7:51 PM

    I’m 18 and got the swine flu jab in school earlier this year. Less than 5 hours later, I was completely paralysed on my left hand side, right from my face, my arm and hand and leg, with severe chest pains. I was rushed to hospital to get a morphine injection and thankfully I was ok afterwards. I wouldn’t recommend the swine flu jab to anyone and no one else in my family got it. My family doctor seemed very against it after he found out what happened, but it was brushed aside after.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 7:41 PM

    Wasn’t there a story about this from last year ? The risks were widely known and the links proven in other European countries already so why has it taken the HSE so long to respond and only recently remove it after tens of thousands of people, including children, have already had the vaccine here ?
    Shockingly inept but that’s nothing new for the HSE.

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    Jul 23rd 2011, 10:42 PM

    I never got the jab and worked through two winters in a&e dept’s , the first year particularly bad with every 3rd patient suspected swine flu. Im def pro vaccines but for anyone who is young fit and healthy surely the jab is totally unnecessary .

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