This fella has to be better than that ghastly weasel Blatter?
Lovin the ideas, even if he is French.
''Orange cards proposed by Fifa candidate Jerome Champagne
Fifa presidential candidate Jerome Champagne has suggested introducing orange cards that would allow referees to send players to a sin-bin.
The Frenchman, 55, launched his bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as the world governing body's president on Monday.
He also wants to punish teams when players question officials and hopes football will consider using more technology for key decisions.
His other proposals include:
Quotas for foreign players
Implementing rugby's rule where only the captain can talk to the referee with a free-kick advanced 10 yards for any dissent
Abolishing the 'triple punishment' rule where a player who prevents a goalscoring opportunity in the penalty areas concedes a spot-kick, is sent off and also suspended
All Fifa presidential candidates taking part in live debates on television and in front of the six continental confederations
Making public the salary of the Fifa president and leading officials''
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Think the ten yard rule should have been move the ball up to ten yards in the direction of direction of choice.
Blatter has had 5 terms hence the alleged dodgy practises.
and that commoner was called Champagne
you could not make it up
Im gonna stand outside the hotel where they hold the elections in my rufus 5 shirt giving it some VFR.
i will last all of 2 minutes before I am escorted away
i.will
I do like the Orange Card, too many games get ruined by stupid sendings off, in my view for two 'technical' offences then a players should be replaced by a substitute (as in Basketball) and his team not reduced to 10-men which ruins the game.
I mean, if a bloke gets booked for taking his shirt off after scoring and the booked again for not retreating from a free-kick and then sent off then his team has not actually gained any advantage.
Of course, if a centre half decides to take out the opposition number 10 with a two-footed tackle then that deserves a red card and his team do deserve to lose a player.
Would also like to see much stricter penalties on "simulation" and - most importantly of all - immediate bookings for players who indicate to a referee that another player should be booked/sent-off by making that stupid card-showing gesture, I HATE that so much.
this guy is also a big advocate of technology in football. In an interview he says that fans in a stadium can see if a player is off side using their smart phones in seconds after seeing it live in front of them, so why are the officials not utilising this.
Champagne goes flat
Former Fifa executive Jerome Champagne’s launch of his bid for the FIFA presidency in London on Monday turned out to be nothing more than a vanity project.
Champagne, who is funding his own campaign, spoke about his desire to globalise football’s world governing body and give more influence to the national associations — especially mending bridges with the FA.
He carefully chose as a venue for his press conference the Connaught Rooms, where the FA was founded 151 years ago.
But Champagne was not prepared to name any of the five federations he needs to support his candidature, nor whether he would even stand if Sepp Blatter puts himself forward — as is widely expected — for a fifth term.
And by refusing to say anything that could be seen as anti-Blatter, Champagne boosted the conspiracy theory that wily old Sepp is pulling his strings in an effort to derail UEFA president Michel Platini’s more relevant challenge.
The surreal occasion included an amateurish video of Pele endorsing Champagne in a number of languages. It was anything but convincing.
Dominic Cork, one of Alan Brazil’s roster of co-presenters on his talkSPORT breakfast show, has embraced commercial radio to the extent of shamelessly plugging Derbyshire firm Kedleston Windows, who are working on his conservatory.
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In a campaign launch that immediately risked going flat Jérôme Champagne has fired the starting gun on the race to become Fifa president but immediately cast doubt on whether he could win.
In an assessment that was either starkly realistic or based on a belief that Sepp Blatter, 77, would not stand, the former senior Fifa executive admitted he would struggle to win if the incumbent ran for a fifth term.
The frank admission – and a refusal to say whether he would even stand if Blatter did – immediately prompted questions about Champagne's motives but the 55-year-old former diplomat said he was not running at Blatter's behest to flush out potential challengers nor was he running for PR reasons.
"I am not doing it for personal profile. I don't know if Mr Blatter will stand or not. I am running alone, myself, with my ideas," said Champagne, who also unveiled Pele as his first high-profile backer. Asked whether he could beat Blatter, Champagne said: "No, I don't think [so]. He is a person of relevance but it's a very hypothetical question. A lot of things can happen."
I have absolutely no idea why the major football nations don't set up a completely rival organisation. Nobody has ever been able to convince me that there isn't a valid reason for it. With the amount of cash FIFA trousers for itself, surely basic commercial sensibilities alone are enough to persuade the big countries to set up a rival? All it would need is England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Spain, France and Holland - the sponsors would immediately ditch FIFA (who the fuck wants to pay billions to sponsor Ukraine vs Costa Rica?) and eliminate their revenue in one fell swoop.