Richard Beattie

Accountant/Husband/Father - Loves Cricket/TMS and football (come on the Gers). Bowls (Dumbarton Rock B.C.)

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic on to Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell stakes in the FIFA World Cup:

🗣️ “Listen to me carefully, because most of these people in suits have never understood the game and never will.

They create a subsidiary. Call it FIFA Forward Enterprise. Keep majority control on paper. Sell 20% to investors who have never smelled grass. Then wave $20 million in front of every federation and pretend it’s democracy.

That is not structure. That is a magic trick for lawyers. FIFA keeps the majority. FIFA keeps the board. FIFA keeps “exclusive authority” over governance, the calendar, the rules, everything that sounds important on paper. The investors get no operational role. They are only buying a slice of the cash machine. FIFA even says the investors are buying into the subsidiary, not into FIFA itself, so “nothing changes.”

I have seen this movie before. Nothing changes… until the numbers start talking. Once private money owns a permanent piece of the World Cup’s revenue, the pressure never stops. More tournaments. Bigger formats. Different calendar. Different priorities. Because investors do not care about the soul of the game. They care about return. And when the federations are already bought with the $20 million “gift” and the bigger Forward payments, who exactly is going to say no?

This is the same FIFA that spent decades selling the World Cup under the table. I remember the 2015 arrests. Swiss police walking into the hotel in Zurich and taking officials out in the early morning. Racketeering. Bribes. Money laundering. Hundreds of millions paid for television rights, for marketing rights, for World Cup votes. South Africa 2010. Qatar. The whole circus under Blatter. Jack Warner. Chuck Blazer singing to the Americans. Blatter and Platini banned for that $2 million “gentlemen’s agreement” that suddenly appeared when it was convenient. The Ethics Committee, the indictments, the years of “we are cleaning the house.”

And now the house is cleaner, they say. Now instead of brown envelopes and secret payments, we have subsidiaries, minority non-controlling stakes, permanent capital vehicles, JPMorgan valuations, and carefully selected long-term partners. Same hunger for money. Same system of buying loyalty from the 211 associations. Only the language got more expensive.

Infantino stands there and talks about democracy and opportunity. I am Zlatan. I do not need the $20 million and I do not need the speech. Most of these federations do need the money. That is exactly why this structure is dangerous. You are not offering development. You are offering a transaction: take the cash, vote yes by September, and stay quiet while pieces of the World Cup become private equity assets.

Football does not belong to FIFA. FIFA belongs to football. The moment you put shareholders inside the commercial heart of the World Cup and call it progress, you have already admitted the game is for sale. They just found a prettier way to write the contract this time.

I played at the highest level. I saw real power and real money. This is neither. This is bureaucracy protecting itself while selling the one thing that still belongs to the people who actually love the game.

Keep your structure. Keep your valuations. Keep your minority non-controlling stakes. The World Cup was never meant to have owners in suits. It was meant to be bigger than all of you.

[Thomas Ingram @IngrameThomas]

Scotland’s politics: eh ??

Virtue signalling for Palestine while soft pedalling terrorism, bankrolling activists who put men in women’s spaces and push male “breastfeeding”, then drowning in fraud, sexual misconduct and embezzlement. Murrell jailed, scandals endless. Competence optional, posturing compulsory. This political circus in Scotland never stops.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@Fyrishsunset @Scott_Wortley The Aushwitz photos did it for me. Scum of the earth.

[The Herald @heraldscotland]

'If this had been the private sector then many heads would have rolled, the contracts cancelled and huge financial penalties levied.

'But because it’s taxpayers’ cash it just rolls along, with the bill rising as ministers play fast and loose with our hard‑earned money.' 👇

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@AgentP22 Can’t wait for her maiden speech. Will it be in Gaelic. ?

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Lara Bird, Scotland's newest SNP sanctimony. More Gaza less Glasgow. Full name: Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey. Oooh, lara-dee-dah!

She'll lecture you all day about sovereign Scotland and the wickedness of Westminster. With an accent about as authentic as a hairline on a flight back from Turkey.

Schooling? English. Law degrees? London, the lot. LSE for the masters, a King's doctorate binned the second a £98k MP salary turned up, the Bar at Middle Temple. Not one Scottish institution got a look in.

The accent? She's admitted the plummy English vowels "stuck" after years living down south. Yet plant her at the despatch box and out comes a wee Scottish lilt that sounds knocked together from a dodgy panto.

English schooling, English voice, English law. All of it pointed at one idea: that England is the problem. The accent's flexible. The principles are gymnastics!

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@Erudite4Unity Little Ms Shouty pants told her to say it.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@joannaccherry @ForWomenScot Hope so 👍🏼

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Dear Jenny love

Multiculturalism is a work of fiction

Muslims demand our culture bends to theirs. Hence you are dressed like a camel trader’s wife at a watering hole.

You aren’t even allowed to enter through the same door, you daft Dorris.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Surely this is unfair

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@Inselaffe76 Remember going down to Bowling Shore to watch the Irish Boat on a Friday night. Wasn’t yesterday right enough. Happy days indeed.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@AgentP22 Guys got a brass arse as well as a brass neck.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@Wilson34David Guarantee only thing done will relate to referendum.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@neilcgray @theSNP Wouldn’t give you the skin off a turd. This to pay for trip to World Cup?

[DavidWilson34 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Wilson34David]

The Lockerbie bomber spent more time in Scotland over the last 60 years than this fanny. If you love Scotland that much come over and pay some tax, otherwise shut the fuck up.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@nats_tired See you at the trial then. You’ve had your coaching. 👍🏼

[Marko Polo @markthehibby]

🚨Slow hand clap to those who voted SNP 2021👉Nicola's Self ID sh*tshow! 👉Humza's Hate Crime sh*tshow. 👉Saved Slater in a No Confidence vote for her DRS sh*tshow! 👉Saved Constance after her sh*tshow. 👉Protected Matheson for his sh*tshow! SNP: Stronger For Sh*tshows! #SNPout

[Cllr Todd Ferguson @ToddFergusonNAA]

New propellers needed after a year for Glen Sannox. Cracks in the hulls of both Sannox and Glen Rosa. £3 million already spent on repairs.

Years late. Vastly over budget. Now literally cracking.

But remember, this is what “world-class ferry procurement” looks like under the SNP. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

https://t.co/4L3oPogNpk

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

This isn’t true. Many women have been forced out of the party for defending women’s rights & when I was threatened with rape by a fellow party member for doing so not one of you spoke up to condemn him or support me. So save us your empty virtue signalling.

[Richard Beattie @richbeatok]

@80_mcswan Where does the workers tax go? Who gets the workers Council Tax where do the workers go to shop. I could go on. You are displaying all the traits of an ignorant arse who’s blind to what is going on in front of your eyes. Clowns the lot of you.