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FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns

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FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
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FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Breaking news speechon Fox Sports 1.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 12:50 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 12:51 pm by TheRealJoeFish.)
what.
Ho-ly-crap. This should be interesting.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 12:52 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 1:05 pm by c172.)
He spoke just now. Not sure who this guy speaking now is.

ETA: That was Domenico Scala, FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee.

Now remarks from Grant Wahl and FS1.

ETA: And here's his resignation latter (PDF): http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images...esigns.pdf
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Looks like John Oliver got him!
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 1:36 pm
Resign? he should be locked up with a bunch of ravenous baboons on christal meth. That is all I have to say on the matter.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 1:41 pm (This post was last modified: June 2, 2015 at 1:46 pm by Cato.)
(June 2, 2015 at 12:52 pm)c172 Wrote: ETA: That was Domenico Scala, FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee.

Audit and compliance? How does this guy keep his job? I may be reading into the title, but it suggests that this is the guy that should have found the corruption internally.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 1:45 pm
I dunno man, the idiot that runs mother Russia has taken part on this bullshit about a game....

I swear I had a comedian shit about that.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 1:55 pm
Am I supposed to give him a cookie? Where are the executers and the police?
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 2:29 pm
(June 2, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Looks like John Oliver got him!

He probably paid Sepp to resign so he wouldn't have to drink a Bud Light Lime.
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RE: FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigns
June 2, 2015 at 2:36 pm
Sepp Blatter. Always sounded like something you would need a shot to get rid of.
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