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Lessons we can learn from FIFA

3rd Jun 2015
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The departure of the disgraced FIFA president prompts some uncomfortable comparisions to UK politics.

Judging from the tenor of press coverage, we would have to assume that Sepp Blatter is the devil incarnate.

Everyone from the former chairman of the Football Association to government ministers and even members of the Royal Family have been condemning the elderly football administrator.

It seems that his organisation is rife with corruption, which never helps. However, football is only a game and this fuss seems excessive considering how little the post really matters in the overall scheme of things.

For all of the whining, when it came to the crunch his opponents within the football world were not able to field a credible candidate. That is why they lost.

The real danger in denying democracy is that you get something far worse. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin knew all about that.

Now that Sepp has finally been unseated, David Cameron had better watch out.

He also won an election without getting a majority of the popular vote. Taking matters a step further, Scotland could easily do a UEFA and demand that a man who is deeply unpopular in their country and several of whose members and ministers have been indicted or imprisoned for corruption should step down.

That would be a laughable situation, but is it any funnier than removing a president elected in accordance with the rules of his mini-state?

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