Dave Richards accuses Fifa of 'stealing' football from England

[Che -Guevara]

Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards has accused Fifa and Uefa of stealing football from the English.

At a conference in Qatar, Richards, who later injured himself tripping over a fountain, suggested that the world had England to thank for football.

 

"England gave the world football. It gave the best legacy anyone could give. We gave them the game," said Richards.

"Then, 50 years later, some guy came along and said, you're liars, and they actually stole it. It was called Fifa."

 

Ricchards, who is also a Football Association board member, was speaking in front of Fifa vice president Prince Ali Bin Hussein of Jordan and International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat.

 

He added: "Fifty years later, another gang came along called Uefa and stole a bit more."

 

When suggestions were made that the game could have originated in China, Richards replied in a raised voice: "It started in Sheffield 150 years ago. We started the game and wrote the rules and took it to the world. The Chinese may say they own it but the British own it and we gave it to the rest of the world."

 

The Premier League was quick to distance itself from the comments.

 

"Sir Dave is attending the conference in a private and personal capacity and his comments in no way reflect the views of the Premier League," they said in a statement.

 

Richards also said Fifa allowed the FA to waste money on their 2018 World Cup bid when, he said, they had little chance of winning it.

He said: "Why couldn't Fifa have said, we want to take it to the Gulf, to the eastern bloc? We spent £19million on that bid.

 

"When we went for it everybody believed we had a chance. But as we went through it a pattern emerged that suggested maybe we didn't."

 

BBC

[BOB]

When will these guys ever stop whining, blaming and criticising everybody else but themselves?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.

[Che -Guevara]

^Do you notice they think that they lead to believe they gonna win. It almost sounds like we paid bribe but didn't get goods delivered.

[BOB]

Exactly and now they want to paint themselves as Angles and the rest of the world as Evil...Yeah right, tell that to NGONGE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace, Love & Unity.

[N.O.R.F]

"It started in Sheffield 150 years ago"

 

Yep!

[Che -Guevara]

^LOL