Baloo said:The thing is Blatter has gained the support of the majority of delegates because each country's vote holds as much weight as the next country. American Western Samoa's vote is as important as Brazil's.
Blatter did work hard to ensure the smaller nations and confederations got a greater piece of the FIFA money pie than warranted but it needed to happen. Europe and South America dominated soccer's global decisions. We can look at Australia and see that under Blatter, we are now a regular World Cup Finals participant, as are more asian and african countries.
So I understand why Blatter has the support, he has earned it to a certain extent. What he has failed at is ensuring his supporters are clean. He hasn't stamped down on corruption. He's probaby corrupt as well. That FIFA is mire in corruption under his watch is why he needs to go down.
But understanding how he got voted in again really isn't that hard and it's not necessarily corruption.
Agree with all that - will be interested to see how the football politics of Europe verses South America verses the others small countries starts to play out.
Had to laugh on the report on 774 this morning - they quoted Blatter saying last week that the only reason he would even consider stepping down would be if he was proved guilty or something along those lines.
A week is a long time in footy