The farce of trying to change FIFA by sitting down

So UEFA will register its protest about events in FIFA by sitting down in Sao Paulo at next week's Congress just as Sepp Blatter, as is widely expected, announces that he will stand for another term as President? My goodness what a protest. This I am sure Nyon thinks is the Lionel Messi moment for the men in suits when a wonderful shimmy delivers a beautiful, game changing goal. Don't you believe it.

In fact when I heard about this UEFA protest against Blatter I merely flicked open my cuttings book and went back to another FIFA Congress, also in South America, Buenos Aires, when UEFA planned to show its disapproval of Blatter. The result was a humiliating defeat for UEFA as the wily old Swiss, who is a master of populist sports politics, proved just too clever for the men who run European football.