Simon Barnes on Blatter
Simon Barnes is one of my favourite columnists and he said this in The Times today.
Dear reader, if you have ambitions of achieving power without responsibility, give up all thought of standing for local council or joining the civil service, or becoming head of state of a small African country. Go into sports administration instead.
You can be as mad, as foolish, as ridiculous and offensive as you please, but so long as you keep the sport a-coming, you will be safe as President-For-Life. All of which explains Sepp Blatter, President of Fifa. Blatter is a man who genuinely believes that he has a sort of King Midas Touch but the President Sepp Touch doesn’t turn dross in to gold.
I suspect Simon has just got himself struck off Sepp Blatter’s Christmas card list. Especially, after the last paragraph.
Blatter has offended women, the gay community, every non-white person on the planet, anyone with any feeling for football, and everyone who approves of such things as honesty, financial transparency and straightforward common sense but he’s just been re-elected. Precisely as you would expect.
I do hope that the British public make Sepp Blatter really welcome at the Olympics.
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