The BBC’s coverage of the FIFA world cup scandal has been woeful.
FIFA released a report that exonerated Russia and Qatar from accusations of corruption in the bidding process for the World Cup…however England and Australia were singled out for special attention.
The BBC failed completely to question FIFA’s decision and concentrated almost solely on England’s claimed abuses.
Now that might seem extraordinary considering the background to the story and the well known and substantial claims of corruption against Russia and Qatar.
TalkSport told us that the report was a farce, a disgrace and a whitewash….that Russia had managed to ‘lose’ all the data on its computers relating to the bid and that no emails or phone records were examined by FIFA.
In contrast the BBC took the report at face value. Listening to their news bulletins it was all England, even their specialist sports reporters on 5Live, the ‘home of football’ apparently, failed to question the claims.
We had Peter Allen telling us England’s behaviour was ‘shocking news’ and he emphatically declared that ‘this was an independent inquiry’.
An ‘independent inquiry’? This was FIFA investigating FIFA and finding itself not guilty and conveniently, the two countries who are going to hold World Cups are also innnocent, and therefore the bidding process won’t have to be reopened.
Very convenient.
However that all changed at 12:10 when the man who investigated the bids, Michael Garcia, but who didn’t provide the conclusions released to the world by FIFA, stated that the FIFA report “contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations”.
The BBC tells us that ‘Garcia’s statement, issued less than four hours after the report was published, has reopened the debate about the validity of the bidding process for both the 2018 and 2022 competitions. ‘
‘Reopened the debate’? Well, no it didn’t, or rather everyone else was already asking serious questions about the credibility of the report….everyone except the BBC.
Once again the BBC fails to do any work for itself and relies on press releases by organisations that can’t be trusted….and adds insult to injury by taking a distinct pleasure in laying into the England bid operation whose Chief Operating Officer, Simon Johnson, on the BBC, told us that it was ‘sad that the headlines are all about England.‘…when the real story is elsewhere…..the story “shouldn’t be about the conduct of England’s bid, it should be about the pre-ordained exoneration of Qatar… and this smells of a politically motivated whitewash”
Perhaps the below might explain the BBC’s haste to condemn the England bid, trying to excuse and justify their own actions in order to claim that the bid’s failure had nothing to do with their badly timed stunt …from the Daily Mail 2010….
WILL BRITAIN’S MEDIA BE BLAMED FOR LOSING VOTES?
The BBC and other media organisations were last night blamed for England losing the bid.
The Sunday Times and BBC1’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama recently produced investigations into the controversial dealings of Fifa’s tight-knit executive committee.
Some within the England campaign had claimed the increased scrutiny of such a secretive body could harm the bid.
Japan’s Junji Ogura, understood to be the only non-English Fifa member who voted for the English bid, said: ‘England was eliminated in the first round, and they were maybe affected by the BBC and The Sunday Times’s reporting.
‘England has full facilities and they could hold the World Cup any time. I think England’s media reporting affected Fifa executive committee members.’
Think its about time we left FIFA, EUROVISION SONG CONTEST, THE E.U and tell them all where to go.
No English clubs will compete in football tournaments,no more funding towards anything to do with sport unless its bidding is fair and open.
Its about time we grew some balls and stood up for our country before its too late.
Johnny foreigner easy to milk the UK but when we point out things are wrong we get the blame.
The Europeans and South Americans should leave FIFA and set up a clean World Cup. Open to any nation.
The UK should leave Eurovision and host an English language song contest open to any country.
The UK should leave the EU and aim for freedom of movement with Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
All sensible moves so therefore all unlikely to happen.
More than that Garcia said no country, with the evidence provided to him, did anything that was wrong in a clear cut manner.
That is not the story the bBC continued with. They went after the English FA, failing to mention that the corrupt FIFA conclusion also named several other countries. If I remember correctly they were Australia, USA and South Korea.
A dreadful ‘interview’ on this on Newsnight tonight, Kuenssberg was not in the slightest bit interested in the answer she was getting or, in particular, Garcia’s intervention, or the millions of pounds that Qatar had used to grease the wheels.
Kuenssberg seems strangely excitable and then it became clear why, she didn’t really want to talk about FIFA, she wanted to get on to the Ched Evans case, the politically correct BBC seem totally determined to get him. Well done to Greg Dyke for not getting drawn in.
I think the jury came to a perverse decision. Here is a video of the girl going into the hotel. http://www.chedevans.com/judge-for-yourself
Was she that drunk, she remembered to go back out to get the piazza she had left there, by herself as well. But the femanazi’s at the bBC smell the blood of a victim.
Whether or not he was guilty, the feminazis’ position appears to be that a football player is a ‘role model’. The solution is simple: just stop idolising men who kick a ball around for a living.
The Ched evans site is very interesting. One has to be wary of one sided views of controversial cases, but the decision here does seem to be a miscarriage of justice on several grounds.
The cab driver said she was ‘dishevelled’ , the night porter said she was ‘extremely drunk’ and so did the owner of the kebab shop where she lost her handbag and phone (the event which started the whole sorry story). According to this document there is CCTV of her in the kebab shop where she is so unsteady she falls over. The CCTV footage from the hotel is time lapsed so its not that clear how steady on her feet she was, even in those shoes. There is also a bit where she disappears after the cab has gone and reappears about a second later on the arm of MacDonald. She also seems more interested in the pizza than MacDonald given that she goes back for it having left it on the pavement outside the hotel.
Even if she was not that drunk when the video was taken how much alcohol did she imbibe afterwards?
Add in the fact that she wet the bed during the night, not the sort of thing a sober person nor an ordinarily drunk does, Evans own testimony which reads like a porn film, the two guys who tried to film the girl having sex, the cocaine in her blood and the whole things starts to look a lot more sordid than a straight forward hook up between two footballers and a lass who’s ‘up for it’.
None of these points lead to any strong evidence either way.
Evans seems to have convicted partly because his version of events does not ring true. If he had gone to the hotel with MacDonald and the girl then he would more likely have been found innocent.
The case against Evans is not a strong one and I’m prepared to believe that he doesn’t himself believe he raped her. However the court transcripts paint a darker picture and it’s not that hard to see why he was convicted, rightly or wrongly.
Alan,
“The BBC failed completely to question FIFA’s decision…”
“World Cup inquiry: England 2018 bid boss denies Fifa claims”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30034298
“Fifa report ‘erroneous’, says lawyer who investigated corruption claims”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30037729
“Fifa World Cup report pointless and a joke…”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30044791
PATHETIC FAIL.
And where in their broadcasting did they give anything but the view that it was really England who were at fault all along?
As usual, Dez, all you are able to quote is the BBC’s news website whilst having no answer to the rampant bias on TV and radio where most people get their news from.
Pathetic fail indeed – again.
Dez …
I thought Alan told you, he s not interested
Dez, as Johnny points out, we know the crap the bBC puts out. The point of this site is to show how shit they are. So if the author of the report Garcia says ‘he had no evidence to prove any country did anything significantly wrong’. The the bBC is showing it’s bad biased reporting.
Planet earth calling Dez.
Do you not read the posts Dez? Do you not understand them even if you do read them? Clearly not.
I say the BBC concentrates on England and to disprove me you quote two BBC reports…that concentrate on England.
Then you link to a report on Garcia and his claims that FIFA are being misleading…..that came at midday, hence the widely recognised time reference in my post….you surely understood that Dez.
The BBC prior to that ignored the farcical whitewash by FIFA and as said, concentrated on England…only after Garcia revealed his bombshell did the BBC start to report serious doubts about FIFA’s own report.
But then you know that Dez because you’ve read the post.
or have you?
Dez, you remind me of the Rosetta probe….zooming along only to end up upside down, in the dark, sending back more and more garbled messages as the batteries run low.
Always a joy Dez. Keep it up.
The BBC will, inevitably, have a problem in covering the tale of FIFA malpractice.
As a supranational organisation the BBC will be instituationally in awe of FIFA – the BBC takes anything that comes out of the UN or EU etc as holy writ.
And then there is FIFA’s own institutional ‘anglophobia’ – the BBC shares this instinctual alergy to anything English.
Add to all that the fact that most Beeboids are either: Rugger fans really old boy; not actually that keen on sport and prefer something altogether more fabulous; or all for a bit of sport so long as it is for ‘wimmin’.
no, the beeb is enthusiastic about sport, any sport, as long as they can buy the rights for peanuts….which is why we get endless hours of enthralling stuff like the wolverhampton marathon or pro-celebrity tiddlywinks from skegness.
football’s for those horrible unwashed working classes…..apart from arsenal and liverpool….the beeb loves them, because one’s near their spiritual home of islington and the other because their fans are all murdoch hating and labour voting, just like the beeb itself.
I think if the bid had been from Scotland, and FIFA was criticising the Scotland bid, the BBC would be up in arms and taking it as a personal affront that the Soviet Socialist Republic of Scotland could be so maligned.
Spot on, Alan. Until Garcia intervened the BBC were audibly joyous at the opportunity to give the ‘Little Englanders’ a jolly old rogering.
‘See, you racist English bigots, it wasn’t ‘Johnny Foreigner’ who was the corrupt influence in the bidding process, it was YOU!’
The UN, the EU and FIFA – all democratically unaccountable, all drunk on power and self-perceptions of infallibility and omnipotence.
Now wonder the BBC loves ’em so much.
What INBBC censors about Qatar-
“Qatar Awareness Campaign – Letter to FIFA #StopQatarNow”
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/joseph-sepp-blatter/
Make up your minds chaps! Do you want the BBC to be neutral or do you want the BBC to be banging the drum for England? And which England and which drum?
It should be For England. Even neutral is better than Against England as it normally is, and is specifically in this instance.
‘Which England?’
There’s only one that I know and it’s completely different to the one which the Left, including the BBC, have manipulated and manufactured for us.
‘ Do you want the BBC to be neutral or do you want the BBC to be banging the drum for England?’
I’m afraid there’s very little prospect of the BBC banging the drum for any England with which most of us English are familiar.
Considering their broadcast output the BBC’s notion of England is rather similar to that of Mr E Miliband….
‘Englishness: a history of solidarity. From the Battle of Cable Street to the spirit of the Blitz. Englishness: traditions of fairness. From the Dagenham workers who fought for equal pay to today’s campaigners for a living wage. Englishness: a spirit of internationalism. From those who fought in the Spanish Civil War to our generosity to those overseas.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2834022/Powerful-vested-interests-paranoid-Miliband-realise-greatest-enemy-writes-TOM-UTLEY.html
Woeful being the word indeed.
To hear Laura Kuennsberg trilling from her accusing bolster seat last night was truly embarrassing.
Greg Dyke is a BBC ex-head and as creepy and clueless as they come-but Lauras knowledge of footie matches all those women who “champion” the likes of Sheffield United…The Fast Show made flesh.
To hear her research monkey highlight in fluffy pink the guilt of the (admittedly useless, creepy) F.A was one thing-to hear her play twister to exonerate the likes of Qatar and Russia was unbelievable.
And all of it was.
It`s as if Blatter and Platini were somehow the plumb lines of soccer rectitude…as opposed to the corkscrews of venality and malodorous corruption we have all long known them to be.
Still-another chance to get at Ched Evans, to bemoan lack of gays, blacks, jihadist and Gabby Yorath-Logans in the “Bootifool Game”.
Newsnight needs chopping up behind the screens and flogging off to Fray Bentos…a real nakka of a show.
Qatar recently hosted a swimming competition and the poor dears were obliged to accept the Israeli team. They showed their displeasure at having to mingle with the Jews by not showing the Israeli flag when Israel competed and also not naming the team.
And their Emir (if that’s what you call him) recently showered adoration and money on Hamas during a visit to Gaza to help Hamas kill more Israeli civilians.
Then of course there is the matter of Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers enslaved, err, employed, to build the stadiums.
There really should be a few basic conditions to be met before a country can be considered civilised enough to host a major international competition.
A decade is certainly not enough time for Qatar to crawl out of Medieval times and into enlightenment.
(I posted a similar comment on a Guardian CIF article on FIFA a few hours ago and it was soon deleted by a moderator. I imagine the Muslim shift must be on duty there after Friday prayers. Or perhaps it was a leftie with the typical tunnel vision that makes Islamic terrorist countries appear benign and civilised.)
I must point out though that the World Service has been surprisingly quiet the past few days on the negative references to England and Australia in the FIFA report while spending some time on the overall question of FIFA corruption.
It could be something to with the Landlords. The BBC luxury HQ is owned by a consortium indebted to QATAR who just happen to sponsor Islamic Terrorism (ISIS) and Football (FIFA) corruption is about right in this murky world the BBC delves. Football spongebags will have filled theirs pockets whilst the BBC look the other way. The Sunday Times did a good expose of the extent of FIFA corruption although not as far as the BBC itself.
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