May 31, 2011
Fearlessness under fire is one of the attributes of a great leader, and the head of the international football federation, FIFA - one Herr Blatter - is demonstrating his rock-hard resolve by taking a Gaddafi-esque stance over getting re-elected as president.
As with all dictators, the Blattmeister is using the magical brown envelope procedure to secure the backing of the honorable gentlemen and no-way corrupt-at-all members of the footbaling nations of Africa. He probably won't be caught saying "Ve haf veys of mekking you vote for me", but Yours Truly suspects that will be the reality of the situation.
However, Guru finds it a bit rich that the UK and Scotland, not to mention France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden... Finland, Wales, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, the USA, Mexico... um... Brazil, Venezuela, China, Iran, Israel, Georgia - the list does go on abit - have all called into question the point of running an election with only one candidate. What with the football clubs in all those countries in no way run by Russian oligarchs, oil-rich sultans and porn barons from Plumstead.
The fact that all these countries failed to secure the 2022 world cup could have something to do with it. That or the fact that they were not recipients of the stocking filla in a manilla.
Yet Yours Truly senses that Herr Blat will manage to cling on to power, much in the same way as the crab-like Bernie Ecclestoneface in Formula 1 - just as long as he can keep the sponsors happy. For Mr Ecclestone, smoking 7,000 cigarettes a day has taken its toll, but Blatter is looking as sleek as a sleek thing having only to pander to those multinational bastions of honesty that are the credit card companies.
Big business will eat itself.
As with all dictators, the Blattmeister is using the magical brown envelope procedure to secure the backing of the honorable gentlemen and no-way corrupt-at-all members of the footbaling nations of Africa. He probably won't be caught saying "Ve haf veys of mekking you vote for me", but Yours Truly suspects that will be the reality of the situation.
However, Guru finds it a bit rich that the UK and Scotland, not to mention France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden... Finland, Wales, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, the USA, Mexico... um... Brazil, Venezuela, China, Iran, Israel, Georgia - the list does go on abit - have all called into question the point of running an election with only one candidate. What with the football clubs in all those countries in no way run by Russian oligarchs, oil-rich sultans and porn barons from Plumstead.
The fact that all these countries failed to secure the 2022 world cup could have something to do with it. That or the fact that they were not recipients of the stocking filla in a manilla.
Yet Yours Truly senses that Herr Blat will manage to cling on to power, much in the same way as the crab-like Bernie Ecclestoneface in Formula 1 - just as long as he can keep the sponsors happy. For Mr Ecclestone, smoking 7,000 cigarettes a day has taken its toll, but Blatter is looking as sleek as a sleek thing having only to pander to those multinational bastions of honesty that are the credit card companies.
Big business will eat itself.
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