Sepp Blatter

[Y21_Royal]

Am I the only one getting sick of him sticking hos nose in and having opinions (usually negative) about everything these days?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7174093.stm

Now he's having a go at England for appointing a foreign coach saying that it 'breaks a basic principle of international football'. Really Sepp? So when Greece won Euro 04 with a German coach, that was bad for Greek football? I don't recall him making too many complaints when Berti Vogts went to Scotland or Scolari to Portugal. When will he just shut up?

[Skyline]

Blatter has to justify his (presumably enormous) salary somehow.

[Royalee]

Blatter talking crap again. It'd do football a favour if he got hit by a bus. Bit by bit he's ruining the game with stupid rules over straight reds for preventing goalscoring opportunities and confusion over the offside rule. Words can't sum up how much I hate the useless waste of space.

[TBM]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

[Royalee]

Does this ponce look like he knows anything about football?

[Ian Royal]

innapropriate for him to say it and random timing given all the many many coaches who are not from th ecountry they manage.

Doesn't make it not the case that the same rules should apply for manager as does for players.

[Stooper]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

Well said.

[Adz1871]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

Well said.

Because Coppell is english ... Blatter is swiss

[shadesrwrf]

For once I totally agree with Blatter.

[zac naloen]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

Well said.

Also think I should point out different people have different opinions.

The people criticising blatter here are not the same ones who agreed with Coppell.

[Royalee]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

No, Coppell's also wrong - it's just Blatter's wrong EVERY time, not just the once, and has more power to f*ck things up than Coppell.

[Y21_Royal]

So Blatter says this and he's a prick but Coppell says something similar and he's a legend - how does that work?

Coppell didn't come out with some pompous bullsh*t about 'basic principles,' also he's an Englishman with an opinion about HIS country. I might be wrong but I'm not sure Coppell ever criticised Cappello's appointment, more bemoaning the fact that English managers aren't given the bigger jobs in English football.

Also its not Blatter's place to be making such a statement. We all know that most of Europe hates us but to single us out like this is out of order for someone in his position

[Uke]

Whenever I hear the name Blatter I always find it best to wrap my towel around my head.

[Daniella]

All true im afraid, thats why it hurts.

The premier league is the best league in the world, but it no longer belongs to england. Its basically an international league where all the talent in the world goes to play, followed by people born everywhere other than england.
The standard of the prem will get better, but English talent along with coaches and managers will go down as everyone will continue to recruit the best from abroad...its been heading like this for years. The sooner everyone accepts that we no longer have our own league, the better.

[Skyline]

The premier league is the best league in the world

Now you see, as soon as you say that you lose what few shreds of credibility you might have been clinging on to. Just because Sky and MotD keep telling you it's true doesn't make it true.

[Barry the bird boggler]

The premier league is the best league in the world

Only because, thanks to satellite TV's obscene amounts of cash, chairmen can throw money at any half decent foreigner and all the players out there are, rightly, going to want financial security for them and their families for the rest of their lives.

Much prefer the 70s and 80s and earlier when you had a more level playing field and to win the title you actually had to beat 20 odd other teams not beat just 4 or 5 and merely turn up for the rest of the games.

[Stranded]

The Premier League is not the best league, it is the richest. A very key difference.

[TBM]

The premier league is the best league in the world

Only because, thanks to satellite TV's obscene amounts of cash, chairmen can throw money at any half decent foreigner and all the players out there are, rightly, going to want financial security for them and their families for the rest of their lives.

Much prefer the 70s and 80s and earlier when you had a more level playing field and to win the title you actually had to beat 20 odd other teams not beat just 4 or 5 and merely turn up for the rest of the games.

I agree - when, now days, would you see the likes of Norwich in 2nd followed by Ipswich and Notts County

[Mr Angry]

Didn't Blatter actually say that he was disappointed as England are considered one of the footballing giants of the World, together with brazil, germany, italy and argentina, none of whome would consider hiring a foreign coach?

He clearly doesn't consider either greece or portugal as highly as england in that regard, so I think a few posters have taken what he has said the wrong way.

[Tails]

Its the fact that he is not english, whereas Coppell is. It is England's prerogative to decide whom manages its national team, the whole self-determinism debate, in no way can an outsider really condem, criticise, impede or even to a certain extent comment on the choices of that nation or group.

The reason why this is considerably more annoying is the particular character saying it, but just because its easy to get annoyed with anything Blatter says, doesnt make it wrong to do so, and those who play devils advocate and thus say we must criticise Coppell are those kinds of people who think differently just because they think its cool....you're just trying to be objective for objectives sake, sometimes subjectivity is the whole point of the discussion.