Guys if you want to know how bad this guy and Plattini is read a book called Foul by Andrew jennings i have mentioned it before on here but you truely will not believe the level of alleged corruption and power of these people.
FOOTBALLER Cristiano Ronaldo is being lined up to star in a multi-million dollar remake of the epic TV series Roots.
Producers say the star's treatment at the hands of Manchester United make him the perfect choice to portray the young African slave who his beaten by his brutal masters.
The Portuguese winger said he had been traumatised by 'outrageous' demands that he honour the £125,000 a week, legally-binding contract, which has brought him only, misery, adulation and Gemma Atkinson.
Speaking from the titanium gazebo in the rose garden of his 31-room mansion, Ronaldo said: "I feel I can relate to the suffering of African slaves.
"If anything, it is worse, because footballers cannot sing while we work, whereas they had time to develop gospel music during their 16-hours shifts before dropping dead from exhaustion."
In the series a young African boy is dragged from his homeland and shipped to America where he is forced to work in the fields by a cruel and violent plantation owner.
"The similarities are uncanny, though admittedly, the Lear Jet that flew me from Lisbon to Manchester wasn't packed with 150 other players sleeping head-to-toe."
Ronaldo also conceded that, while the slave-master in Roots administered brutal beatings, Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson had nurtured his talent, lavished him with praise and turned him into one of the best footballers in the world.
"But without the freedom to do whatever I want, wherever I want, for whatever fee I want, I am exactly the same as a cotton picker forced to live in a shed, dying at the age of 32."
He added: "I know the people will love my acting. Already, in the streets, I hear many of them calling me 'Kunta'."
A very strong childhood memory of the whole family watching this totally transfixed by it. I would like to sit and watch the whole thing again. I have never seen it repeated?
[cite]Posted By: Algarveaddick[/cite]Their problem is that the champions league has come back to bite them on the arse. At it's conception Spanish, Italian and German teams were at the fore, and presumably they thought it would stay that way. The huge popularity of English football was underestimated and the growing TV deals have given English clubs more and more cash, and therefore better players and more power. The knock on effect being that they have grown stronger and stronger in European competition and consequently earned even more cash. The vicious circle of their own making has now become a problem, because it looks increasingly likely that the greedy four in England will dominate the champions league for some time to come.
At the present time there is very little they can do to change things, so they resort to petty sniping, and to actually taking it out on the fans. The plan to force the government to open up non-England games in the Euros to the highest bidder is an example, if they win we, the fans, will be forced to pay for what was free until now. The "good of the game" malarky would indicate to me that their remit is to open up the game to as many people as possible, instead they are trying to restrict it in England, for their own financial ends.
It must annoy them to death how widespread support for the game is in England, the crowds at some League 1 and League 2 games leave top flight crowds here in Portugal standing, and it's the same in most European countries. The Championship now being the fourth biggest supported league in Europe is proof that no-one else in Europe can hold a candle to the English when it comes to support of the game. We are head and shoulders above the rest, and perhaps they should be directing their energies towards addressing that problem in the "failing" leagues, rather than trying to peg back England's clubs because they have taken advantage of what's on offer?
Top post Algarve. As regards Splatter, well he is a total c*ck most of the time and this suggestion just about sums him up. To compare top footballers on £100k plus a week with slaves is not just wrong, it cheapens the word and what it must have actually mean't to have been enslaved. Frankly the man should be chucked out for saying it but we all know he won't. I hope Manure find a way of taking him/FIFA to the cleaners for saying it.
I think they are teflon coated, isn't one of their "rules" something about anyone taking them to court atomatically gets banned from FIFA endorsed competions (which is all of them), or something like that?
[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]A very strong childhood memory of the whole family watching this totally transfixed by it. I would like to sit and watch the whole thing again. I have never seen it repeated?
Bizarre, I've been saying for years that if there was one series I would love to be repeated it would be Roots.
Kunte Kinte (no I'm not swearing wasn't that his name).
[cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]A very strong childhood memory of the whole family watching this totally transfixed by it. I would like to sit and watch the whole thing again. I have never seen it repeated?
Bizarre, I've been saying for years that if there was one series I would love to be repeated it would be Roots.
Kunte Kinte (no I'm not swearing wasn't that his name).
nth london addick is right, I have backed him up on that book before, Blatter is just a love child of Adidas and every other corporate arse licker of FIFA, that whole organisation is a disgrace but nothing can be done about them. For the good of the game my arse, this whole 6+5 rule that wants to be introduced, I know a lot of people are in favour but with FIFA wanting it to be a world game how can you restrict the movement of players from "lesser" countries the opportunity to play with a club in a top league and develop their game further and in turn improve their national sides if they cannot get past "home grown" sub standard players. The game and in particular its governers are in shambles
[cite]Posted By: Weegie Addick[/cite]Ronaldo and Blatter should be crammed into a tiny, windowless cabin in the hold of a ship with next to no food and water and left there to float on the high seas for a very long time. Disgraceful, the pair of them.
Good shout Weegie. The talk of "slavery" going on now is, quite frankly, insulting. A £100k per week slave? No, it's called honour and loyalty - not slavery. When you sign a big boys contract you are playing with the big boys - don't give a monkeys who you are. Sure, you might want to leave - but don't belittle the millions of people who suffered for a cheap quote.
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It makes you wonder about the whole of footie TBH
it is defo not jumpers for goalposts
RONALDO TO STAR IN REMAKE OF 'ROOTS'
FOOTBALLER Cristiano Ronaldo is being lined up to star in a multi-million dollar remake of the epic TV series Roots.
Producers say the star's treatment at the hands of Manchester United make him the perfect choice to portray the young African slave who his beaten by his brutal masters.
The Portuguese winger said he had been traumatised by 'outrageous' demands that he honour the £125,000 a week, legally-binding contract, which has brought him only, misery, adulation and Gemma Atkinson.
Speaking from the titanium gazebo in the rose garden of his 31-room mansion, Ronaldo said: "I feel I can relate to the suffering of African slaves.
"If anything, it is worse, because footballers cannot sing while we work, whereas they had time to develop gospel music during their 16-hours shifts before dropping dead from exhaustion."
In the series a young African boy is dragged from his homeland and shipped to America where he is forced to work in the fields by a cruel and violent plantation owner.
"The similarities are uncanny, though admittedly, the Lear Jet that flew me from Lisbon to Manchester wasn't packed with 150 other players sleeping head-to-toe."
Ronaldo also conceded that, while the slave-master in Roots administered brutal beatings, Man Utd boss Sir Alex Ferguson had nurtured his talent, lavished him with praise and turned him into one of the best footballers in the world.
"But without the freedom to do whatever I want, wherever I want, for whatever fee I want, I am exactly the same as a cotton picker forced to live in a shed, dying at the age of 32."
He added: "I know the people will love my acting. Already, in the streets, I hear many of them calling me 'Kunta'."
Any one else remember Roots? Chicken George et al. Great TV
I've seen it on DVD - in Germany ca 50 Euros.
Top post Algarve. As regards Splatter, well he is a total c*ck most of the time and this suggestion just about sums him up. To compare top footballers on £100k plus a week with slaves is not just wrong, it cheapens the word and what it must have actually mean't to have been enslaved. Frankly the man should be chucked out for saying it but we all know he won't. I hope Manure find a way of taking him/FIFA to the cleaners for saying it.
Bizarre, I've been saying for years that if there was one series I would love to be repeated it would be Roots.
Kunte Kinte (no I'm not swearing wasn't that his name).
21st century slavery.......
Very close - it was Kunta Kinte
Roots
Good shout Weegie. The talk of "slavery" going on now is, quite frankly, insulting. A £100k per week slave? No, it's called honour and loyalty - not slavery. When you sign a big boys contract you are playing with the big boys - don't give a monkeys who you are. Sure, you might want to leave - but don't belittle the millions of people who suffered for a cheap quote.
Great player - absolutely no class.
is he really a....
There, I've said it...