Placido Domingo may join FIFA to restore confidence

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Placido Domingo may join FIFA to restore confidence Placido Domingo the opera star will wait before he decides whether or not to accept a new FIFA committee role. The Spaniard is waiting on more information from recently re-elected president Sepp Blatter before committing to the council of wisdom.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter made a formal invitation to the Spanish opera great Placido Domingo who is considering it to help try and solve problems at the world’s football governing body.

Blatter won re-election unopposed for another four years last week and promised to clean up FIFA and the corruption scandal. The role of council of wisdom has been offered Domingo as well as Henry Kissinger the former U.S. Secretary of State and Johan Cruyff the former Dutch football legend.

However the opera star is still considering the appointment and is non committal until Blatter supplies him with more information. He said last week that with the exception of 1978, since 1970 he had been at every World Cup final. Blatter said the new committee will have the powers to investigate problems at FIFA and to solve the bribery scandal.

Ryan Giggs’ brother splits with his wife as the papers have a field day

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Ryan Giggs’ brother splits with his wife as the papers have a field day Rhodri, Ryan Giggs’ brother has split from his wife after it was reported that she had an affair with the star player from Manchester United. Rhodri, 34, has apparently ended the marriage and is devastated over the eight-year reported relationship. He said he was with her this past Saturday but not now.

He said he has had problems with this brother Ryan but this is as low as it gets. He had suspected there may be something between them but he never thought it would be to this extent. It is reported that Natasha and Ryan had a relationship even before Rhodri began dating her.

Natasha is said to have reported the affair because she was upset about his fling with an ex Big Brother housemate that was in the headlines everywhere in the world. She feels that he was cheating on his wife and her, at the same time and all he wanted was sex.

It is also reported that Ryan slept with Natasha the day after two of his children were born a few years apart. Estate agent Natasha on Sunday was photographed at a petrol station before taking a trip abroad with her two children who are quite young. She has insisted that all she has said about the affair is 100% accurate.

Rhodri her husband is said to be really in a bad way and at this time is being helped by friends at the home were he was raising the family. On Sunday evening Rhodri changed his Facebook picture to a quote that read “isn’t it weird how people talk sh** about you, when the only thing they actually know about you is your name.”

FIFA fiddles as football burns

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FIFA fiddles as football burns It is no news to football fans that FIFA is having major image problems.  Allegations of corruption on the part of senior officials and the large question of how Qatar landed the 2022 World Cup are only a few of the scandals afflicting the organization these days.

FIFA’s large corporate sponsors, including Adidas, Visa and Coca-Cola have been expressing concern over the perceived corruption, and recently McDonald’s joined in the voices calling for reform and ethical behaviour by FIFA officials.  However, according to marketing experts, the sponsors are unlikely to renege on any lucrative deals unless a really massive scandal erupts.

Chris Welton, a well-known sports marketing consultant, said that the average football fan is not really interested in whether FIFA is behaving badly or not.  They just want to watch and enjoy their football, and they don’t want to see the governing body in football embarrassed more than it already is.

Sepp Blatter, who just won his fourth four-year term as FIFA’s head honcho in an uncontested election, has finally acknowledged that the organization is having a crisis, and has promised that reforms will be made.  He said it would take some time, but he intends to “ . . . put FIFA’s ship back on the right course in clear, transparent waters.”

As part of the reforms, he said that in future all the 208 member federations would vote on the World Cup host, instead of FIFA’s 24-member executive committee.  David Bernstein, the English FA chairman who tried and failed to get the election postponed, said that it least his attempt had pressured Blatter into proposing reforms.

DOMINO’S INTERNATIONAL ROOKIE MANAGER OF THE YEAR CROWNED IN PORTSMOUTH

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27 year old Jenny Price, a Domino’s Pizza store manager from Portsmouth has walked away with the prestigious company award of ‘ International Rookie Manager of the Year’. She beat off stiff competition from over 1500 rookie managers from across the globe, and was awarded her title at Dominos annual awards ceremony on Monday the 23rd of May.

The celebrated title is awarded to a manager of a store who has been in charge for 18 months or less. In order to qualify for the competition there are strict targets for both store standards and sales. Jenny, who manages the store in Fratton, Portsmouth exceeded these goals and has a great passion for pizza, making her a perfect choice for the award.

Having joined Domino’s in 2009, Jenny originally planned for the job to be a stop-gap but within a week, she knew she wanted to stay and pursue it as a fulltime career. Her great work ethic and hands-on approach saw her become store manager after just nine months. Jenny’s people management skills have seen her create a 60 strong team at the Fratton store and achieve exceptional staff retention rates, while delivering outstanding customer service to pizza lovers in the area. She has also been getting stuck into community activities to raise funds for local causes, not to mention delivering to Portsmouth Fire Brigade to keep them going on their busiest day of the year – Bonfire Night.

Jenny was initially called to the stage at Domino’s annual awards on Monday to be given the title for Rookie Manager of the Year UK and the Republic of Ireland, but was immediately summoned back to receive the award for the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. The double win was then topped off with her being presented the coveted International Rookie Manager of the Year award.

Jenny said: “I knew I had been nominated for the UK and Republic of Ireland rookie manager award and was staggered to win that, let alone be called back to the stage to also take the award for EMEA and then the ultimate prize – international! It was a very emotional moment and one that really made all the hard work worthwhile. I called my parents straight away afterwards to share the great news and I’ve already hung up my plaque with pride in the store. I love my job and I am determined to carry on developing the business and delivering more to customers in Fratton.”

Kory Spiroff, Vice-President – Domino’s Pizza EMEA, said: “Jenny is a fantastic ambassador for Domino’s Pizza. Her unwavering commitment to the brand, unending passion for her job and her genuinely contagious enthusiasm make Jenny a truly inspirational winner. We are delighted to present her with this award, recognising the crème de la crème of Domino’s Pizza rookie managers worldwide.”

Domino’s Pizza’s international awards recognise the talents and hard work of the franchisees and in-store teams from the company’s 9,350 stores in over 65 countries.

 

 

Sepp Blatter defiant in the face of football storm

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Sepp Blatter defiant in the face of football storm Sepp Blatter was cleared of any wrong doing by the FIFA world ruling body allowing him to run unopposed for the presidency in Wednesday’s election. The only challenger, Mohamed Bin Hammam, stood down amidst corruption allegations.

Bin Hammam as well as executive committee member Jack Warner received suspensions for all activity related to football after the ethics committee of FIFA said they would launch a full blown inquiry into the allegations of bribery made against the two.

The group agreed to investigate claims that financial incentives were offered to Caribbean Football Union (CFU) members. Both deny the allegations and Bin Hammam said earlier he rescinded his candidacy saying he did not want FIFA’s name to be dragged through the mud.

The ethics committee ruled in favor of Mr. Blatter by saying there was no need to investigate the present President who Bin Hammam accused of knowing about the alleged payments to CFU members.

The two Mr. Warner and Mr. Bin Hammam are accused of trying to bribe members with bags of cash that totaled £24,000 for each member of the CFU members in Trinidad. These alleged payments were to secure votes for Bin Hammam’s presidential election campaign.

The ethnics committee was presided over by Namibian judge Petrus Damaseb who told a news conference that Bin Hammam was provisionally banned from participating in an football activity until the ethics committee of FIFA take a final decision and the same for Mr. Jack Warner, also suspended pending further inquiry were Jason Sylvester and Debbie Minguell, CFU officials that are alleged to have handed over the bundles of cash.