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[/color][color=]On Friday the stage was all his. Sepp Blatter stood victorious under the bright lights on the stage of the Hallenstadion in Zurich after winning an unprecedented fifth term as Fifa president. He posed triumphantly for pictures with the delegates who returned him to office. He looked unassailable. Now something extraordinary has happened. What Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein could not do at the polls, Blatter has done to himself. He has resigned as Fifa president and will depart 40 years after first walking those corridors of power.
Blatter might well have had time to consider the implications of another four-year term over the weekend with much of the western world's ire directed against his organisation and him personally. Fifa and Blatter are detested. Any attempt by either to present an image of reform and transparency is taken as dubious. He might well have had a flash of conscience though and reasoned that now is the time for genuine reform while also recognising his own limitations in that regard. If so, good for him.
"Fifa needs a profound overhaul," he said on Tuesday. "While I have a mandate from the membership of Fifa, I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football – the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we all do at Fifa. Therefore, I have decided to lay down my mandate." On Friday the stage was all his. Sepp Blatter stood victorious under the bright lights on the stage of the Hallenstadion in Zurich after winning an unprecedented fifth term as Fifa president. He posed triumphantly for pictures with the delegates who returned him to office. He looked unassailable. Now something extraordinary has happened. What Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein could not do at the polls, Blatter has done to himself. He has resigned as Fifa president and will depart 40 years after first walking those corridors of power.
Blatter might well have had time to consider the implications of another four-year term over the weekend with much of the western world's ire directed against his organisation and him personally. Fifa and Blatter are detested. Any attempt by either to present an image of reform and transparency is taken as dubious. He might well have had a flash of conscience though and reasoned that now is the time for genuine reform while also recognising his own limitations in that regard. If so, good for him.
"Fifa needs a profound overhaul," he said on Tuesday. "While I have a mandate from the membership of Fifa, I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football – the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football as much as we all do at Fifa. Therefore, I have decided to lay down my mandate."

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