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Comment on Winner of Innovate Awards 2020 by Jim G

Jim G — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 23:16:17 +0000

Fantastic, well done!

Comment on FIFA and RIP to RFPs by Ash

Ash — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:59:24 +0000

The BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year may be forced to take a leaf from FIFA’s book. The Beeb has presented 10 ‘criteria’, but without a suitable weighting, will they get the answer they want? Do they really want to posit a brunette on a biscuit tray with the likes of Moore, Coe, Botham and Thompson? Surely there should be a greater weighting for our real sports: for football, cricket, rugby? Wot? Not included? Then, surely, we should want the representative of our most popular sport (horse racing) to win, or the toughest man in the world – the heavyweight champion of the world. But it won’t happen. Political correctness will win the day: if not the biscuiteer, then it will be Jess the Smile, or Wonder Boy (Bless him.) Darts? Not this year, or any year. Now is a Duck.

Comment on FIFA and RIP to RFPs by Tod

Tod — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:15:32 +0000

I like this, and agree with the general proposition – that RFPs need to be carefully considered – but wonder what FIFA has to do with this? It seems to me you’re trying to make sense of the non-sensical: like, When is a Duck? FIFA’s approach to the Bid Process, tho’ it paid lipservice to an RFP process, never had any intention of choosing the ‘best’ bid, and hence was no kind of process at all. It knew who it wanted to win, but wanted (or felt it needed) to look ‘fair’. It was, of course, nothing of the sort, and there is nothing that England (or the USA for ’22) could have done even if the scoring method had been spelled out, and regardless of any weighting. “Points will be awarded for being Russia. The weighting for being Russia is 95%”. It was always going to be a mountain too high. Our only chance was the 5%: “There will be a 5% weighting in favour of Backhanders; in the event of a suitable backhander, all other points will be disregarded.” And God knows, we tried: the Government bent over backwards to influence FIFA: the “no tax” guarantees etc. And Boris, bless him, was willing to make swanky accomodation available to keep the members happy in 2012. It’s a dirty world, and we played dirty. Just not dirty enough.