HEAD IN THE SAND

GARY TEDDER fears nothing will change at football’s governing body FIFA if, as widely expected, Sepp Blatter is re-elected as president in May

THE weird and wonderful world of FIFA is almost beyond parody.
Emerging in late March, after two no doubt exhausting days spent cogitating and ruminating with his executive committee at their Zurich HQ, FIFA president Sepp Blatter informed an expectant world that, in his humble opinion, staging the World Cup in Russia in 2018 would “stabilise the situation in this region of Europe”. This was in addition to comments in a newsp...

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