Morning Ticker: FIFA's Plan B for 2010, Blatter enters Ronaldo fray and Barca signs Hleb

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Save Cristiano Ronaldo
Published 7/11/2008 by Beau Dure at The Netminder
The fashion experts in the soccer world aren't impressed with the hairshirt Cristiano Ronaldo has donned as he agitates to move away from Manchester United. FIFA president Sepp Blatter knitted that hairshirt with his "modern-day slavery" comparison, which Ives Galarcep calls "essentially putting his foot in his mouth for about the 20,000th time during his reign as FIFA president." The funniest comment in this sad story surely goes to BigSoccer's Bill Archer, who offers up a public service announcement on behalf of this ...

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Is Blatter Ready To Invoke Plan B?

Posted 7/11/2008 on TheOriginalWinger.com

DOUBLE UPDATE - Looks like Germany is out of contention if FIFA deems South Africa unable to host the 2010 World Cup after the DFB’s Theo Zwanziger admitted his country could not match the success of the 2006 World Cup. UPDATE - Looks like our man Sepp is pretty worried about South Africa , especially when FIFA admits to speaking with THREE different Football Associations about ...

Blatter Putting Calls In For Plan B

Posted 7/10/2008 on The Offside

While most people will gawk at Sepp Blatter putting his foot in his mouth yet again, the head cheese at FIFA actually said something yesterday which was interesting but didn’t offend entire demographics. Massive shocker any way you look at it. Of course, his stupidity will force this under the radar, so keep the credit [...]

Is Blatter Ready To Invoke Plan B?

Posted 7/10/2008 on TheOriginalWinger.com

UPDATE - Looks like our man Sepp is pretty worried about South Africa , especially when FIFA admits to speaking with THREE different Football Associations about the possibilities of hosting the 2010 World Cup on short notice. “I have spoken to three possible, not only possible, but three associations and countries that would be able to stage the World Cup in one year’s time,” Blatter ...

USA: A Plan B for World Cup 2010?

Posted 7/10/2008 on Yanks Soccer

Sepp Blatter, a.k.a King FIFA, has done it again. He continues to suggest that South Africa will be replaced by another host if they don’t get their act together. Sepp himself switched to the continental rotation system in order to have Africa host a World Cup, but he know is making contingency plans in the event that South Africa is not ready to host. Worries surrounding power ...

Is Blatter Ready To Invoke Plan B?

Posted 7/9/2008 on TheOriginalWinger.com

Will South Africa be ready to host the 2009 Confederations Cup, the warm up tournament for all South Africans venues set to host the 2010 World Cup? This week the Nelson Mandela Port Elizabeth Stadium was droped from the 2009 Confederation Cup schedule as the 2010 World Cup Local Organizing Committee’s Technical Team admitted that the completion date of the stadium would not meet ...

Blatter: Alternates discussed to replace South Africa

Published 7/10/2008 on FOXSports.com News for FOX SOCCER

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has spoken to three countries about hosting the 2010 World Cup if a natural catastrophe forces it away from South Africa. It forms the Plan B drawn up by FIFA with less than two years until football's showpiece tournament ...