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As absolute power corrupts absolutely, there must be concerns about FIFA and, in particular, Sepp
Blatter. At the recent FIFA Congress in Zurich, Blatter was reelected unopposed for a further four
years of omnipotence as president of the world governing body.
Blatter exerts a vice-like grip over FIFA with a number of his own men in charge of the regional
affiliations (think Jack Warner at CONCACAF or Michel Platini at UEFA, for example) and his
strategic planning, in that such planning exists, purely targets the maintenance of control by
buying off just enough of the FIFA family with his complex and often contradictory edicts.
Natural fake, Sepp Blatter, runs a highly dysfunctional FIFA hierarchy where, as we have previously
posted, corruption is a core competency in the inner circles of power. If an organisation is going
to provide control for the likes of Blatter, Jack Warner and Franz Beckenbauer then one may
guarantee that the lack of professional oversight extends down to the foundations of the body.
The Times is engaging its readers on Arsene Wenger's appalling record when it comes to the
low numbers of English players in the Arsenal squad.
This current debate comes on the back of Sepp Blatter's recent threat to take on the EU over the
possible re-introduction of quotas regarding the numbers of foreign players who are allowed to play
in national associations across Europe both in domestic and in UEFA competitions.
Michel Platini reached the sewers of power on the back of a manifesto that sought to democratise
football in Europe and he has been in control now for long enough for observers to make an
assessment of his impact to date. Taking everything into account, we reserve judgement but the
signs are that his idealism is being compromised by the requirements of the power lobbies within
the game.
Sepp Blatter joined with the FIFA executive committee on Saturday to reintroduce a ban on matches
played at altitude without "adequate time to acclimatise" - a version of this ban was proposed in
June but, on that occasion, FIFA repeatedly backtracked before shelving its little ruse in the face
of popular unrest at the decision.
