Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter facing 80th birthday in very different world

Blatter is battling to save his reputation after being banned from all football-related activity by FIFA's ethics committee - a body he himself was instrumental in setting up.

Sepp Blatter enjoyed so many glitzy gala dinners during his time as FIFA president that it is not difficult to imagine how he might have planned his 80th birthday celebrations.

But as the shamed former head of world football's governing body reaches that milestone on Thursday, he may well have scaled back the festivities. In fact, such has his world changed since he turned 79, it is easy to argue that the party is already over.