Blatter clings to power - Red card time

WILL he go? Will he stay? Will he jump or will he be pushed? Will we ever be rid of him? Will he haunt soccer for ever?

Six months before pantomime season opens in earnest the Fifa farce is in full swing and heading towards a new, almost unimaginable climax.

Suggestions that Sepp Blatter might refuse to quit despite promising to do so, or that he might contest the eventual election to find his successor, smack of a Craggy Island surrealism that made Fr Ted a far more plausible character than Fifa’s Swiss Don.