FIFA try to act like Big Brother

February 23rd, 2006 | By: Nick O'Neill | 1 Comment »

FIFA, the world governing football body suddenly thinks it owns soccer, the internet and freedom of expression. With the world’s biggest football tournament to start in June, the policy makers have decided to limit press freedoms and have stated what can be reported on the internet. Are they totally stupid? Seems like it to me.

FIFA has said that it will impose Internet restrictions, which are a limit of five photos per half of each match and two photos during each half of extra time, including any subsequent penalty shootout. Yeah okay. Have a good time trying to police that.

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By Matthew Smith | February 28th, 2006 at 9:58 am

Hi Nick,

I was wondering if you could help me. I work for TWI and will be going to the world cup to work for HBS who are the host broadcasters. As a result we have to find info on each team, so i was wondering if you could help me in regards to the Togo team. We are looking for info on the players and the team their strengths and weaknesses. Areas which people might talk about say in a pub. For example: for England we know Rooney is the best player and that we have a problem with our left side and what formation to play to suit our best players, we just need to this sort of infomation for Togo. Anything you have got will be of use to us and I would be very grateful for anything you could email me.

Thank you
Kind Regards

Matt Smith

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