Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/rangers-fans-left-bewildered-as-spfl-chief-gets-uefa-role/
SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster has been appointed to UEFA’s Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body – and Rangers fans have been left bewildered by the news after months of in-fighting has seriously damaged Scottish football. The inept SPFL boss was nominated by the European Leagues and will be one of six people on the powerful…
Nepotism at it’s finest.
Wherever Lawwell goes corruption follows him about like a bad smell
Do we not remember EUFA a few years ago
Walter Bieri—EPA/Alamy
The Events of 2015–16.
On May 27, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disclosed a 47-count, 164-page criminal indictment charging seven FIFA executives with having received $150 million in bribes over a period of more than two decades. Those seven were arrested by Swiss police at the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zürich, where FIFA was based, and jailed. An additional seven officials and sports marketing people were included in the DOJ indictment for offenses dating back to 1991; the DOJ alleged that the accused had received bribes from marketing groups in exchange for television contracts. Jack Warner, former president of FIFA’s CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean) confederation, later handed himself in to police in Trinidad. Another marketing executive eventually surrendered to police in Italy, and five other officials had previously pleaded guilty. Two of the highest-profile persons detained in Zürich were FIFA vice presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo. A second indictment followed in December 2015, listing 16 soccer officials from the CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF confederations of FIFA. Two other vice presidents of FIFA were arrested in Zürich at the same time. There had been previous arrests, including Warner’s son Daryll in 2013, but the events of 2015 constituted the first exposure of collective criminality within the organization.
FIFA, awash with its $1 billion annual revenue from sponsorship and other sources, possessed ample funds for manipulated dispersal through kickbacks and other criminal means. Though FIFA’s finances were not the most transparent, its existing balance sheet about the time of the arrests listed assets of $2,932,000,000, liabilities at $1,409,000,000, and reserves amounting to $1,523,000,000. Some 43% of FIFA’s income was derived from selling TV broadcasting rights to the quadrennial World Cup tournament, with marketing contributing 29% and other sources providing 28%. According to Swiss law, FIFA was a nonprofit organization, so there remained a fine line to negotiate over its finances. That was evident in 2014, when FIFA’s total income for the year was a record $2,096,000,000 while the organization paid only $75 million in taxes for the four-year period 2011–14.
Do you honestly think there is any change get with the program boys
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32985553 Blatter and Platini, and the Italian changed sides sound familiar.
Easy to see why UEFA have went for this inept dickhead Neil Doncaster. Easy to control and likes a Bung if past decisions are anything to go by?
Nothing ever changes in these crooked control centres where money and greed are power not the football clubs and there supporters who are the games life blood.
Take them away and you have nothing.