Robbie Earle Sacked

[oakie bob]

selling on World Cup Tickets

 

Doing a Bobby Charlton

[Gunga Din]

Romario is replacing him

[oakie bob]

next time I will search lol

[Leo No.8]

How I will miss his insightful punditry. A sad day for football fans in the UK.

 

Goodbye Robbie, thanks for everything.

Edited June 16, 2010 by Leo No.8

[floyd]

Just hope ITV find out that Jon Champion and Craig Burey have also, whilst in South Africa commentating for ITV, been up to certain illegal acts, involving 13 year old boys, cocaine and vuvuzelas

[Cobs]

no longer England ambassador now either

[Leo No.8]

no longer England ambassador now either

 

His opening speech to the World Cup Commitee entitled 'Zones dont' Score Goals Players Do, England are Boss' has been consigned to the paper bin.

[surf]

his tickets were taken by these chicks who were then thrown out of the stadium for wearing too short dresses (or something)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQHzcIja3A&feature=related

[DanielS]

his tickets were taken by these chicks who were then thrown out of the stadium for wearing too short dresses (or something)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQHzcIja3A&feature=related

 

Its far more sinister than "too short" dresses (how can a dress be too short? Doesn't scan...). Fifa have released the Advertising Attack dogs in defence of their turf. Bavaria haven't given Fifa a penny so any representative of Bavaria's (or suitably attired surrogate) gets frog marched into a police station and threatened with jail if found within 20 miles of a Worlc Cup football match.

[Nerik]

He did not man assign his tickets, just kept their zone. The two chicks happened to be in that zone. Proves his theory that man marking is better.

[Leo No.8]

He did not man assign his tickets, just kept their zone. The two chicks happened to be in that zone. Proves his theory that man marking is better.

 

Ha - very good! Have some of that Earle.

[Rory Fitzgerald]

I actually have some sympathy for Robbie Earle because I refuse to believe that the tickets went directly from him to the marketing crowd. Free tickets are a liability it would seem, it cause you scandal at worst and at best, you get a few thank-yous from friends and family and nothing else.

[Zoob]

Its far more sinister than "too short" dresses (how can a dress be too short? Doesn't scan...). Fifa have released the Advertising Attack dogs in defence of their turf. Bavaria haven't given Fifa a penny so any representative of Bavaria's (or suitably attired surrogate) gets frog marched into a police station and threatened with jail if found within 20 miles of a Worlc Cup football match.

 

Very odd that a couple of people are ending up in court over this. Can understand them being thrown out for breaking the rules, but what law have they broken? (Advertising without paying a corporate fee is a crime?)

[drdooom]

Apparently 'ambush marketing' is illegal there. I wonder if that law was made just for the world cup or if they had it before,

[Walrus]

How on earth does someone like him get so many tickets in the first place?

[Cobs]

How on earth does someone like him get so many tickets in the first place?

 

he had zonal tickets

[Stevie H]

Apparently 'ambush marketing' is illegal there. I wonder if that law was made just for the world cup or if they had it before,

no logos, no wording, no mention of bavaria beer anywhere on the dresses. estimated fifa profit from 2010 world cup, £1.7 billion. tax paid in south africa on that amount, 0. fifa are massive c*nts.

[DanielS]

no logos, no wording, no mention of bavaria beer anywhere on the dresses. estimated fifa profit from 2010 world cup, £1.7 billion. tax paid in south africa on that amount, 0. fifa are massive c*nts.

 

Jack Warner sold his freebies at the last World Cup for upwards of £1million. He doesn't work for ITV though so he still has a job.

Edited June 17, 2010 by DanielS

[Cobs]

Jack Warner sold his freebies at the last World Cup for upwards of £1million. He doesn't work for ITV though so he still has a job.

 

he should have his prison cell next to Sepp

[Rory Fitzgerald]

no logos, no wording, no mention of bavaria beer anywhere on the dresses.

 

You must have had a really really really good look at those dresses just to be sure

[surf]

no logos, no wording, no mention of bavaria beer anywhere on the dresses. estimated fifa profit from 2010 world cup, £1.7 billion. tax paid in south africa on that amount, 0. fifa are massive c*nts.

 

the dresses have bavaria logos on the back

[Stevie H]

the dresses have bavaria logos on the back

oh did they? report i read said they didn't.

 

does this mean that all dutch fans wearing holland shirts with a nike logo on will be thrown out as well?

[floyd]

A NEW book suggests that Cape Town got the most expensive and least desirable World Cup stadium simply because Fifa boss Sepp Blatter wanted it. FIFA are even more fvckin corrupt than the IOC.

 

Doubts dog Cape Town stadium's prime property

South Africa's priciest World Cup stadium is the flattering image that Africa's richest democracy hopes to offer the world from Friday: a striking sportsground with spectacular mountain and sea views.

 

The renovated 50-metre (164-foot) high, 68,000-seat Green Point stadium bursts out of Cape Town's densely populated Atlantic seaboard where it is ringed by tourist attractions, trendy restaurants, apartments and shops.

 

A nearby hospital rooftop was snapped up by the BBC as the setting for its World Cup studio, 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) from the tournament hub in Johannesburg.

 

But the controversial 4.5-billion-rand stadium (577 million dollars, 483 million euros) -- described by FIFA as 2010's best pitch -- has sparked criticism as a showpiece choice over cheaper but less glamorous contenders.

 

Tossed aside were proposals to upgrade a premier league football pitch or a successful Super 14 rugby team homeground in Newlands, which hosts a France-South Africa international the day after kick-off.

 

South African think-tanks have accused global football body FIFA and its chief Sepp Blatter of strong-arming the nod for Green Point.

 

"I really think that we're going into Green Point because Sepp Blatter says: 'I like Green Point', not because it is the best thing for South Africans," Cape Town's then-mayor Helen Zille said in 2006.

 

FIFA reportedly wanted a pitch between the sea and iconic Table Mountain and opposite South Africa's top tourist site, the V&A Waterfront, the Human Sciences Research Council said in a book probing 2010 legacy last year.

 

"FIFA strong-armed Cape Town and central government to construct a stadium for which there is no demonstrable need other than that its location shows the city to its best advantage," it said.

 

Green Point was announced despite a 2006 study commissioned by the city, which found it offered the fewest social and economic gains, according to a Institute of Security Studies (ISS) publication.

 

Under pressure to score a semi-final, cheaper upgrades were rejected for the rugby stadium in well-heeled, mostly white Newlands and the Athlone football pitch in a mixed-race suburb surrounded by low-cost housing.

 

The cost savings with either option would have built homes for a quarter million people or more, wrote the authors Karen Schoonbee and Stefaans Brummer.

 

"In the end, neither value for money nor development value triumphed," they said.

 

The result lies less than three kilometres from the city centre, showing off Cape Town's best assets, with a giant translucent fabric mesh bowl exterior designed to buffer strong winds and reduce noise.

 

Amid the controversy and ballooned costs, frustration has also arisen among Cape Town's desperate poor, and informal traders forced to leave their regular sidewalks.

 

Zille, now provincial premier, told journalists during the pitch's hand-over to FIFA that its location would help make the stadium viable and that attracting world events was key.

 

But while the city gears up into World Cup fever, questions are likely to continue about the financial viability for the stadium built over six city blocks of prime real estate.

 

"The location of the stadium in Cape Town is certainly one of the most striking stories of the 2010 World Cup," said the HSRC.

[surf]

oh did they? report i read said they didn't.

 

does this mean that all dutch fans wearing holland shirts with a nike logo on will be thrown out as well?

 

nah. they won't kick out innocent fans, with the 'bavaria babes' the intention was guerilla marketing and that makes the difference.

ironicaly, if fifa hadnt done anything and had just let it go no one would have heard about bavaria beer

[guernseygareth]

friend of mine does a lot of financial work in south africa.

 

he was told when he was down there t'other month that a firm apparently linked to sepp's son was touting offical fifa WC status to hotels etc for 30% of their estimated profits.

 

could all be guff as i wouldn't trust financial types as far as I could throw their cold, dark hides.

 

didn't bavaria beer do orange leiderhosey things at last WC and fifa/german fuzz all kicked off?