Coca-Cola and McDonald’s among sponsors to call for Sepp Blatter resignation

Blatter’s immediate response was to insist that he is staying in office until February.

Sepp Blatter was staring at the prospect of an immediate end to his time as FIFA president after several of the organisation’s biggest sponsors called on him to stand down immediately.

In what appeared an orchestrated action, Coca-Cola, Visa, Budweiser and McDonald’s all issued statements saying Blatter should resign immediately after a week which has seen criminal proceedings opened against him in Switzerland.