For Blatter or Worse; For Richer ....

Well he's finally gone but before we get too excited let's remember that the people who have just voted for him are still there and will be wanting to replace him with someone who also has their own interests at heart.

Also he will still be here for a while until after the organization's executive committee organizes a fresh vote "for the election of my successor," he said Tuesday. Time to groom a successor?

Blatter did not say when the election would be held but said it should before the next World Congress in May 2016. It cannot be held for at least four months, according to FIFA rules, Domenico Scala, chiarman of FIFA's audit and compliance committee, said.

"The expectation is that this could take place anytime from December of this year to March of next year," he said.
Nowhere is Sepp Blatter's support stronger than across Asia and Africa. So why did most of the representatives from those two continents vote for him again?

The simple fact of the matter is that without Blatter they wouldn't enjoy all the benefits they enjoy from Fifa. Sepp Blatter, in his 40 years at FIFA and its president for 17 years, has deeply influenced FIFA in recent years. He created a system that he knows inside out and has professionalized FIFA's development program in such a way that small nations -- in the Caribbean, for instance -- were all grateful to him for the $250,000 that he gave them annually, in this case, not counting additional development aid. Blatter knows how to take advantage of this gratefulness. What Blatter pushes is equity, fairness and equality among the nations. We don't want to experiment."

The increasing number of countries that can qualify for the finals will not want to experiment and change the current system that benefits them so well. Nations like Angola and Togo now have the the chance to sup at the top table and such countries which had felt excluded now feel the opposite - and that earns loyalty.