DS wrote: The Quiet Earth wrote:Murray, I agree. The capitalists out there with their weapons and ammo (i.e. lawyers and accountants) will, eventually, convince (i.e. bribe) enough bureaucrats, politicians, and lawmakers into allowing them to takeover and run football leagues.
There's a famous book about the dodgy fookers who run FIFA. I'll post a link in a minute.
Wherever there is money = dodgy and corrupt obese people who wear nice suits and...
They dont need to bribe or influence because legally under EU law and legislation ,they would win.
Do you mean that the capitalists would win, or do you mean FIFA would? If you mean the capitalists don't need to bribe anyone then I'd reply with the following:
The reason they’d need to bribe politicians, etc, is due to the entwinement of football and politics.
If you read the extract and blurb, above, from David Yallop’s book on the power that the suits at FIFA hold you’re left with the notion that FIFAs power is sanctioned by the same politicians they cosy up to.
I think that, basically, FIFA ally themselves with strong political figures in order to shield themselves from capitalists who want to exploit the football market even further. Still, I’m sure that the same capitalists (The Murdoch clan, to name one of them) try to influence the same politicians towards their conception of how football should be run.
But they’ve been unsuccessful so far, I believe, because, as that excerpt informs us, FIFA cosy up to powerful politicians from different continents and regions, and, with FIFA possessing the power associated with football and also the access to its stars and the best match day corporate hospitality, it is in the politicians’ interests – for the moment – to allow the status quo to continue.
Eventually, however, the politicians may be influenced enough by the rich capitalists (i.e. bribes using money, land, oil, shares, food, girls, whichever) to sever their connections with FIFA and lend their considerable backing to a new, breakaway initiative called The Sky League of Champions, or something like that.
Football is also a good tool for averting the gaze of the majority (proles) away from all the dodgy nonsense that is inherent to the institutions that facilitate the governance of the same majority by the few.