There is a perverse charm to what appears to be Sepp’s final mission – exposing the weaknesses and wickedness of everyone who has profited from his regimeIt turns out that the only thing more ridiculous than Fifa’s sponsors not calling for Sepp Blatter’s instant resignation was their finally getting around to calling for it. After months – or,rather, years – of studied inaction, and the various purveyors of trans fats and piss-beer and sundry obesity-epidemic drivers who serve as Fifa’s self-parodic partners fill suggested that the Fifa president may care to step down and spend more time helping police with their inquiries.
To paraphrase Coca-Cola,Blatter’s Fifa is as “tarnish[ed]” as a tooth that’s spent the night in a glass of their product. “An obstacle to the reform process,” intoned Budweiser’s maker, or Anheuser Busch InBev. McDonald’s was as worried about “the best interests of the game” as it might be if it heard the players were living on its wares. This holy trinity were latterly joined by Visa,though Blatter still looks unlikely to pull off the clean sweep and catch the remaining sponsors, Kia, and Adidas and Gazprom,to propose it might be time for him to go.
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Source: theguardian.com