Sepp Blatter: 'a kind of genius for staying on the horse'

Like Fidel Castro, it's amazing that Fifa president Sepp Blatter has clung on to power for so long.

The world's media was "scathing" in its coverage of the resignation of Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, on Tuesday, just four days after his re-election for a fifth term, says The Daily Telegraph. "An End of An Error", quipped the Daily Mirror; France's L'quipe went "straight for the jugular", with "accul", meaning "cornered". Greg Dyke, the chairman of the English Football Association, said: "Clearly there's a smoking gun.It's not to do with Sepp Blatter being honourable."

Not that his re-election had been any surprise, says William Langley in The Daily Telegraph. Over Blatter's 17-year presidency, Fifa's billions have been "constantly and ingeniously" deployed by the "Blofeld of football" from his "granite-lined lair, 50ft beneath a velvety Swiss hillside". Fifa may be non-profit, but that "doesn't mean it can't make people rich".

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