John Delaney doesn’t want Sepp Blatter getting off hook

Unlike Uefa, FAI chief executive John Delaney believes tomorrow’s Fifa election should go ahead in order not to allow embattled President Sepp Blatter time to circle the wagons following yesterday’s dramatic events in Zurich which saw the dawn arrest of seven Fifa officials as part of investigations into corruption charges.

However, despite Blatter’s apparently weakened position, Delaney thinks the 79-year-old — who has been at Fifa’s helm since 1998 — will still command enough support from his power bases outside Europe to win a fifth term as president of football’s world governing body.