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There's been a bomb scare at the hotel where the Fifa congress is happening

Fifa will vote later on whether to retain Sepp Blatter as president.

Updated at 1.30pm

FIFA CONGRESS RESUMED this afternoon after the all-clear was given following a bomb alert at the venue where the event is being held.

The governing body will vote later on whether or not to retain Sepp Blatter as president.

A Zurich police spokesperson confirmed a bomb alert had been received at the city’s Hallen Stadium.

Police and Fifa security searched the congress room – but the all-clear was soon given.

Switzerland FIFA Protest A protester wearing a mask depicting FIFA President Sepp Blatter stands in front of the building where the 65th FIFA congress takes place in Zurich. Associated Press Associated Press

Speaking earlier, the embattled Fifa boss was adamant that only he could clean up the world’s most popular sport, to the dismay of critics who want to issue a red card to his 17-year rule.

Speaking this morning in Zurich, he appealed for unity and “team spirit so we can move forward together”.

“Let us show to the world we can run our institution together… With these words I open the 65th congress of Fifa,” Blatter added.

The boss of football’s governing organisation has been brazening it out in recent days – after governments joined leading figures of the global game along with deep-pocketed sponsors in crying foul over Fifa’s corruption scandal.

British Prime Minister David Cameron backed calls for Blatter to resign yesterday, while French President Francois Hollande said sports groups selecting the hosts of major events must be “irreproachable”.

Meanwhile, speaking this morning, FAI boss John Delaney said Blatter had presided over a “farce” and said that if loved football, as he claimed to, he would go.

Commercial deals

The commercial fallout has also been growing – with South Korea’s Hyundai Motor, a major sponsor of Fifa, saying it was “extremely concerned” after this week’s arrests and start of criminal probes implicating the football body.

Credit card giant Visa has threatened to “reassess” its sponsorship if Fifa does not clean up its act.

Blatter, however, has survived scandal before – and looks set for a fifth term in today’s vote, backed by African and Asian allies, despite the criminal investigations underway in the United States and Switzerland.

The Week That Was in Latin America Photo Gallery Associated Press Associated Press

More bad news

Blatter opened Fifa’s annual congress yesterday by saying he could “not monitor everyone all of the time”, shrugging off blame after the dramatic arrests in Switzerland at the behest of US prosecutors.

“The next few months will not be easy for Fifa. I am sure more bad news will follow but it is necessary to begin to restore trust in our organisation,” the 79-year-old president said.

“It must ultimately fall to me to bear the responsibility for the reputation and well-being of our organisation, and to ultimately find a way to move forward and fix things,” Blatter added.

He called the scandals “unprecedented” and said the “actions of individuals bring shame and humiliation on football and demand action and change from us all”.

Blatter spoke hours after a showdown with European football chief Michel Platini, who professed himself “sickened” and “disgusted”, and called on him to quit for the good of the game.

Blatter only replied in a private conversation after. “He told me: ‘Michel, we know each other well, but it’s too late. I cannot leave today when the congress starts this afternoon’.”

Avaaz Stunt in Zurich Protesters from the global campaign movement Avaaz demand the resignation of Sepp Blatter over the FIFA corruption scandal and rights abuses of World Cup construction workers in Qatar. Gian Vaitl Gian Vaitl

Conspiracy theories 

Seven top football officials were arrested and Swiss police raided Fifa headquarters Wednesday as part of an inquiry into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively.

Those arrested in Zurich were among 14 people accused in a US federal indictment of taking more than $150 million in bribes.

Platini said a “very large majority” of the 53 voting European federations would back Prince Ali bin al Hussein of Jordan, the Fifa vice president who is the only challenger to Blatter in the vote.

“We cannot continue with the crisis in Fifa,” Prince Ali said this week.

The US, Canadian and Australian federations said they would also vote for the Jordanian royal, but the support of the numerous football associations in Africa and Asia should see Blatter get back in.

Among his supporters, Asian sports officials questioned the timing of the arrests, saying it was suspicious that they came two days before Blatter was due to stand for a new term.

Blatter was not named in the US indictment, and Swiss authorities said there were no immediate plans to question him over the awarding of the next two World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

‘Never accepted a bribe’ 

In a separate development this morning, Jack Warner, the former Fifa vice-president has accused the US of ‘sour grapes’ and insisted he never accepted a bribe.

Speaking to the BBC following his release on bail in his native Trinidad and Tobago, he said the claims against him were “ludicrous”.

FAI Reaction

Speaking to Morning Ireland from Zurich, FAI boss John Delaney said Blatter had “presided over a farce”.

“He has to go,” Delaney said,

“If Fifa’s credibility is to have any chance of being returned to what it was 20 years ago, Blatter has to go.”

If Blatter loved football like he says he does … He would do the honourable thing and step down.

The incumbent Fifa boss was still expected to win today’s election, Delaney observed – adding that he thought it was “the beginning of the end for him.”

© AFP 2015 with reporting by Daragh Brophy.

Read: How did it get to this? Here’s the events which led to this week’s Fifa arrests

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    Mute Stephen Duggan
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    May 29th 2015, 7:07 AM

    Sure FIFA has been “Fixed” for years, one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet.

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    Mute Deborah Behan
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    May 29th 2015, 7:58 AM

    Oh we all know how he will “fix” things. The puppets have been arrested, the puppet master is still at large.

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    Mute Fintan Stack
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    May 29th 2015, 8:10 AM

    Well said!

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    May 29th 2015, 8:14 AM

    These guys are his people, if they go down then as the ring leader so should Blatter.

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    May 29th 2015, 8:22 AM

    I could think of a certain Irish business person , that Blatter should link up with , who would show him the ropes of how to manipulate Government here !

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    Mute Michael O' Riordan
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    May 29th 2015, 8:46 AM

    Who is voting for this guy. You wouldn’t buy a second hand car from him!!
    Or third….

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    May 29th 2015, 8:47 AM

    I really hope platini follows threw and boycotts the world Cup if he is re-elected something has to change. Qatar was a sepp too far

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    Mute Jake Race
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    May 29th 2015, 8:56 AM

    Can’t stand soccer. All I can do is watch on with LOLz.

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    Mute Sloop John G
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    May 29th 2015, 9:26 AM

    Go away Jake, nobody cares that you don’t like soccer

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    Mute Mr Phil Officer
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    May 29th 2015, 9:26 AM

    Of course he is going to win, the votes are bought and paid for.

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    May 29th 2015, 9:41 AM

    So now that Fifa officials have been arrested good old sepp is going to clean up the whole organisation ahhhahahaha I’m pissin myself. Sepp must have some amount of dirt on most of those delegates that they feel they have to vote to keep him there for their own protection. FIFA is rotten to the core with corruption.

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    Mute Fulgencio Capulet
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    May 29th 2015, 9:45 AM

    I felt he “has to go” for a looong time now! However at this time I want him to stay in the detriment of the prince who is now a challenger helped by US (arrests, etc) because US can’t stand the FIFA World Cup 2018 is still going ahead in Russia. Of course if the prince will win, then World Cup is going to move. This action is even more undesirable because politics have no place in sport. This is only way we can extend friendship and we should always seek that!
    In view of what I said, since there’s no one else, I would choose still this time Blatter

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    Mute Paul Furey
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    May 29th 2015, 9:53 AM

    The neck on him. He probably even believes in his own cries for unity and transparency. Such a horrible little man.

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    Mute Michael Cunningham
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    May 29th 2015, 10:55 AM

    Trying to explain FIFA/JackWarner/Blazer to my wife. It is so brazenly absurd I can barely believe it.

    There’s something annoying AND embarrassing that him & the Exco exist in the modern western world in a huge public forum.

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    Mute Jake Race
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    May 29th 2015, 1:51 PM

    “Go away Jake, nobody cares that you don’t like soccer”

    I don’t care if nobody cares that I don’t like crappy, effeminate, stupid-people sports.

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    May 29th 2015, 1:59 PM

    It’s been reported there was s loud bang followed by moaning..it was subsequently found out that Sepp dropped this months brown envelope on his foot..

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    Mute Michael Cunningham
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    May 29th 2015, 3:45 PM

    @Angry Squirrel
    Spot on. Look what happened to Bin Hammam at the last vote!

    Thankfully the new guy (who won’t win anyway) was smart enough to spot a honey trap.

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    Mute Michael Cunningham
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    May 29th 2015, 3:47 PM

    I think it would only take a handful of countries (Some UEFA, +USA+Australia+NZ) to declare a boycott of the Russia WorldCup to get Blatter out of there.

    Otherwise, Blatter will actually need to be arrested & jailed. The last few decades have shown that reform will never come from within the Exco.

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    Mute Pat Mustard
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    May 29th 2015, 7:13 AM

    UEFA need to stand up and be counted. If they, along with the USA and others, threaten to break away or at least boycott the World Cup. Lets see how all these corrupt nations that back Septic Bladder wholeheartedly get along without Western tv money or sponsorship.

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    Mute Carmo Vanderval
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    May 29th 2015, 8:07 AM

    We all need to opt out of Fifa anyway we can. Put pressure on uefa, fai, sponsors and rte to boycott the whole thing.
    There is no way I will watch even one game in Qatar; it just makes a mockery of a tournament I once loved. Russia and Qatar are two of the most corrupt countries in the world. Where next for the World Cup? Myanmar? Laos? Maybe they could bribe Fifa officials with industrial quantities of heroin?Nothing would surprise me now.
    UEFA should throw down the gauntlet and set up an alternative tournament or run the European cup every two years.
    I hope the FBI send Blatter to gitmo, rendition the mofo

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    May 29th 2015, 8:23 AM

    That’s the thing, they really hold all the cards. It would be interesting to see them take action. Any world tournament without them is worthless!..But with all that money flowing into European clubs from the Arabs that’s not going happen!

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    May 29th 2015, 8:59 AM

    well said pat

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    May 29th 2015, 9:46 AM

    Spot on Pat. Has anybody heard what the views of the South/Latin American countries. We seem to have heard from the rest of the world. If Europe, Latin America, USA & Australia pull out of FIFA then there’s not much left with just Africa & Asia.

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    Mute Anthony Ryan
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    May 29th 2015, 12:00 PM

    Uruguay is voting for Prince Ali and maybe Venezuela too but that’s mainly out of shame because people from those counties were arrested the other day. Brazil is bought off, Chile (hosting Copa America in two weeks) is bought off and the other half dozen South American countries are all paid up Sepp men.

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    Mute Richard Cynical
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    May 29th 2015, 7:13 AM

    he is starting to make Lance Armstrong look honest

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    Mute John Doyle
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    May 29th 2015, 7:17 AM

    If 5 of your top guys are arrested you resign. It happened on his watch he is ultimately responsible.

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    May 29th 2015, 7:12 AM

    Sepp Blatter and FIFA make the Scilian mafia look like a bunch of girl guides.

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    Mute stephen
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    May 29th 2015, 7:17 AM

    WWN are reporting that John Delaney, woke up this morning with a horses head beside him.

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    Mute John
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    May 29th 2015, 8:15 AM

    That was a mirror.

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    May 29th 2015, 7:18 AM

    What time is the DOB article going to be up at? Will It last longer than 10 minutes this time? It’s a bit rich reporting on corruption in FIFA and not about allegations made under dail privilage.

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    Mute Alien8
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    May 29th 2015, 8:39 AM

    I’m surprised FIFA don’t send a solicitors letter to the journal for reporting on their corrupt activities. That’s all that necessary, even if the letter is vacuous and itself links a dubious court ruling with other reporting rights in the law. If we cannot report and comment on our own parliament, which is privileged by law, then FIFA, being a private organisation, should be well out of reach.

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    Mute Randy
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    May 29th 2015, 9:02 AM

    He owns half the media and has the rest cowering in the corner…a tax non Dom billionaire controlling what can be reported from our parliament…this is a huge matter but only Broadsheet reports on it…we need journalists brave enough to stand up to these empty threats

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    May 29th 2015, 9:40 AM

    Alien8 I’m surprised we’re allowed to comment on this to be honest , the comment section is normally non functional when corrupt people are written about .

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    May 29th 2015, 1:47 PM
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    Mute cosmological
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    May 29th 2015, 7:08 AM

    At this stage you might be forgiven for finding this hilarious were it not for the stench of greed.

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    Mute Beano
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    May 29th 2015, 7:11 AM

    Blatter will get reelected because he has the backing of all the majority of African and Asian countries. He will say that this is a ringing endorsement that he is the best man to lead FIFA for the next four years. Nothing will change

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    Mute Alien8
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    May 29th 2015, 8:57 AM

    When Blatter is re elected, will Delaney step down in recognition that he is a CEO of a company that has its accredation from a corrupt organisation, that he says has to change for football to survive? At least there is no corruption in the FAI (btw, where does 50% funding for the management team come from? somewhere clean as a whistle, I hope)

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    Mute John
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    May 29th 2015, 8:14 AM

    Platini is just as corrupt. He was handsomely rewarded for voting to play WC in Qatar. A country that treats migrant workers like vermin. Everyone worried about millionaire footballers running around for 90 minutes in the heat but nothing about some poor souls working for food and living in squalor dying in that same heat while they build these bloody stadia in a desert. Btw the real shame here lies at the feet of ADDIDAS, COCA COLA, NIKE, FORD, etc etc. if you want to clean up football you have to go after their sponsors. If the likes of platini was genuine he would withdraw UEFA from the World Cup but he’s already been bought and paid for.

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    Mute Derek Richardson
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    May 29th 2015, 7:08 AM

    He has fixed many things

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    May 29th 2015, 7:08 AM

    I’m sure he’s well able to fix things.

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    Mute Adrian
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    May 29th 2015, 7:35 AM

    Anybody here seeing the massive similarities between FIFA leadership and irish politics. Both facing elections and the corrupt promising the sun, the moon and the stars to get elected. The only difference is that fifa is being rediculed but the irish politicians seem to be “getting away with murder”.

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    May 29th 2015, 8:08 AM

    Blather is only a child compared to the unquestioned leadership tenure of some Irish politicians

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    Mute John
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    May 29th 2015, 8:19 AM

    “Getting away with murder” Sinn Fein.

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    Mute Michael Kearney
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    May 29th 2015, 7:34 AM

    im sure that ref vs france was fixed too.. when Henry handled the ball for that “goal”..the corruption has no end #stillbitter

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    May 29th 2015, 7:44 AM

    The most annoying thing for me in all of that was FIFA deciding to seed the playoffs at that late stage, to give France and Portugal the extra little nudge they needed to qualify.

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    Mute John
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    May 29th 2015, 8:18 AM

    Let it go. We all celebrated when maradonna punched the ball into an English net and that was far more obvious.

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    May 29th 2015, 9:43 AM

    Germany were seeded well i think.

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    May 29th 2015, 7:08 AM

    He’ll need one hell of a tool box

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    Mute Mark Anthony
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    May 29th 2015, 10:16 AM

    “FAI boss John Delaney said Blatter had presided over a “farce”…….”

    That is high praise indeed. If anyone knows how a farce should be presided over, it’s John Delaney.

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    May 29th 2015, 8:57 AM

    So Delaney wants to return Fifa to its reputation it had 20 years ago before Blatter. Someone fill that clown in on Fifa President at the time Joao Havelange.

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    Mute John
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    May 29th 2015, 9:02 AM

    Didn’t blatter learn it from the master.

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    Mute baz newham
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    May 29th 2015, 9:39 AM

    It says enough about the man when Vladimir Putin stands up for him!

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    Mute Johnnie Sexton
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    May 29th 2015, 8:49 AM

    “Fix things”…… then step down, resign and begone Blatter. To kill a snake you have to cut the head off.

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    Mute Michael cunnane
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    May 29th 2015, 9:40 AM

    WTF is a buffoon like John Delaney doing anyway still in charge of the FAI.

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    May 29th 2015, 3:02 PM

    We’ll find it very hard to get rid of John Delaney. About the only effective thing that he’s managed in his near 20 year stewardship of the FAI has been to surround himself with cronies, lackeys and clingers on that would never vote him out or work against him.
    The irony of his commenting on the Sepp Blatter fiasco is probably lost on him.

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    Mute David Melia
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    May 29th 2015, 9:15 AM

    Uefa should boycott the world cup if blatter gets in.

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    May 29th 2015, 9:52 AM

    Sepp Blatter should give Denis o Brien a call for advice.

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    May 29th 2015, 8:20 AM

    About as trustworthy as the catholic church…

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    May 29th 2015, 10:19 AM

    He gets the block votes from both Africa and Asia which put him just short of reelection, returning the favour of FIFA ” investment” in both areas

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    May 29th 2015, 10:29 AM

    What time is happening?

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    Mute Gaeltán
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    May 29th 2015, 8:26 AM

    Tá soccer lofa le hairgead le blianta ar fud an domhain. Ní hamháin FIFA. Meas tú cá as a tháinic saibhreas Abromovich agus a chairde eile? Ná bí ag caint ar Murdoch agus Sky. Lofa ó bhun go barr agus muide ag caitheamh airgid air. Caithfidh go bhuil siad sna trithí ag gáire fúinn uilig.

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    May 29th 2015, 9:24 AM

    Why does Delaney feel the need to tell everyone how happy he is in his personal life every time he is asked a question lately. He did it again on morning Ireland when asked how long more he would be in the job. I worry about that fella sometimes, he was crying on joe Duffys show another day not long ago.

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    May 29th 2015, 8:52 AM

    this man is acid, he needs to be cut down – today’s vote should’ve been cancelled! dictatorship, greed, corruption – utterly disgusting & rotton to the core

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    Mute Medusa
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    May 29th 2015, 11:49 AM

    The buck stops with Blatter…if he was unaware of all the corruption in the past which I doubt then he is incompetent.

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    Mute Live Long
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    May 29th 2015, 8:53 AM

    What a total balloon head, nobody with an ounce of integrity will bother watching the Qatar World Cup

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    May 29th 2015, 8:58 AM

    John Deleaney is a great example how to run an organization Blatter should have a natter with him.

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    Mute IrishGravyTrain
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    May 29th 2015, 9:26 AM

    Lol. John Delaney great example. Good one.

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    May 29th 2015, 8:23 AM

    At a price I’m sure.

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    May 29th 2015, 11:20 AM

    In a nutshell (Blatter) – this is Africa & Asia versus Europe.

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    Mute Derek Durkin
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    May 29th 2015, 10:10 AM

    Guess Fifas decision on whether to expel Israel will be on the back burner…

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    Mute Irish Druid
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    May 29th 2015, 8:40 AM

    Unfortunate choice if words

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    May 29th 2015, 8:39 AM

    Very misleading comment

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    Mute Robert Malcolmson
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    May 29th 2015, 8:40 AM

    Apologies, I meant headline

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    May 29th 2015, 9:02 AM

    Does that make your comment very misleading then?

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    Mute Anne Marie Kelly
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    May 29th 2015, 11:16 AM

    “Fix things”? Isn’t that what he’s been doing all the time?

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    Mute Andrew Keane
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    May 29th 2015, 10:45 AM

    If he gets reelected then the end isn’t really near enough.

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    Mute Anne Marie Devlin
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    May 29th 2015, 2:05 PM

    I’d like to propose Denis O’Brien as next FIFA president. He’d do a much better job at protecting their interests from media and governmental scrutiny. Hopefully siteserv and iw will act as a down payment for us to hold world cup 2026.

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    May 29th 2015, 9:24 AM

    If you look up ‘God complex’, you’ll find photos of Sepp Blatter and Kim Jong-un.

    Why doesn’t Sepp wear a crown, like a ‘King’ should?

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    May 29th 2015, 8:50 AM

    If he gets in again it looses all credulity. How come there is no alternative organisation being put forward?

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    May 29th 2015, 2:55 PM
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    May 29th 2015, 1:35 PM

    Well I guess crime certainly does pay, eh?

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    May 29th 2015, 4:42 PM

    Blatter cant even get an injunction on media coverage of his dodgy ‘business affairs’. What a lightweight.

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    May 29th 2015, 4:02 PM

    Soccer a rotten corrupt joke, run by a mafia of money grabbing shysters & played by a bunch of grossly overpaid cheats. A pathetic parody of a game I used to love. Nothing will change as money talks loudest. Haven’t heard Platini kicking up murder over corruption before now except for occasional remarks. 1,200 real live human beings dead over this charade in Qatar. Should be called off on principle.

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