Blatter backed for four more years

Sepp Blatter was today re-elected unopposed for a third term as FIFA president with a stinging rebuke against John McBeth, the Scot dramatically dumped as Britain’s FIFA vice-president following his extraordinary attack on African and Caribbean nations.

Blatter, first appointed in 1998, stood unchallenged and was unanimously voted into office by acclamation at the 208-nation Fifa Congress in Zurich.