Summary: Joining once again to discuss the inside politics and bidding process for the controversial 2022 World Cup bid is General Counsel and Co-Director for Change FIFA, David Larkin, who helps us craft the very important case why the entire set of rules and processes must be reset, why the bidding contract process itself is broken and why several key administrators including Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini themselves have violated the very by-laws and statutes of the organization. At the core of these talking points is the direct quotes of FIFA President Sepp Blatter himself who has indicated clearly to German press that direct political influence was brought to bear into the bidding process and we in turn examine what the knockdown effects are from that admission, what could happen next should FIFA persist in moving Qatar 2022 to a winter period and if recent threats of legal action by the FFA have merit and under which jurisdiction. We also explore the volatile nature of the contract process and how broadcast companies would have a clear decision to make in terms of renegotiation or claiming a breach of contract entirely and how Sepp Blatter continues to almost mock the entire process with his reliance on rather weak claims from a Bid Registration Agreement that has many material flaws. We also take a deep dive look into the politics, the advertisers and sponsors, an emerging European Club Association which should have major concerns with the World Cup moving to a winter period and ultimately the biggest victim of all which is the real business of football where massive issues go on without serious and adult answers to the problems affecting world football the most.
