Respect a farce in football fiefdom of Teflon Don Blatter

SEPP BLATTER will be elected unopposed for another term as FIFA President in Zurich later today and there’s absolutely nothing you or I can do about it because we’re not part of The Family.

It’s hard to avoid stale references to The Godfather but Blatter’s absurd press conference on Monday leaves me with little choice: he’s the Don and how dare the press show such little respect on this, the day of his daughter’s wedding.

The abiding memory of a thoroughly entertaining half-hour was that of a pathetic-looking Blatter being shepherded out after the last question by his hapless Director of Communications who had all the wisdom and powerlessness of Robert Duvall’s Tom Hagen (he could never be Don).