FIFA's problems can be fixed with radical surgery. Just remove the Blatter.
Sorry, bad pun.
Why did he simply not stand for reelection last week? Then he might have escaped the utter embarrassment that today’s announcement caused.
He clearly won’t spend time in jail, at his age. What’s a suitable punishment for a white collar, corrupt crook?
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Make him serve those that he wronged.
The thing I find fascinating is the fact that it is the FBI that shoe stringed him. I mean of all the nations on the planet, it’s the United States which dethroned the SOCCER king?
The other thing that strikes me as marvelous is the enormous regard in which the man is held by devotees to the sport. The man is apparently the Marion Berry of professional sports. It’s a fascinating episode and someone’s going to make a fortune with a book about it.
Oh yeah! And he’s going to make a large pile of money from telling his story. Despite his age, I can’t help hoping that he will be convicted, run for President of FIFA while in prison, and win by a large margin. If the world must have scoundrels, it’s nice to come across one that can make you grin.
Sep Blatter: Sounds like an infection, doesn’t it?
Perhaps he knew he had the numbers to win that vote and thought he could ride out the storm. I think the lure of power is a major motivator for such behaviour. You have a different political system there and your President can only stand twice, but in other countries the leader, say Prime Minister, can stand as often as their party allows and as often as the voters elect the party. When leadership challenges occur, it’s rare for a leader to acknowledge their time has passed and to accept it’s time to step aside. They usually have to be pushed. I’d say that’s a big part of Blatter’s motivation.
I’d suspect his change of heart is because he now knows he’s going to end up being tarnished by ongoing investigations and has been persuaded to step down now before he’s pushed.
Good riddance, Sepp.
He basically had to step down because the U.S. and European countries were seriously considering boycotting the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The pressure was mounting.
The USA, saving Europe from itself since 1917.
Septic Bladder ran for re-election through sheer arrogance, as he has done for the past 17yrs, the wolves at the door refused to back off this time, he blinked first.
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