Why Blatter will keep on winning

Inside World Football

So why is it that, with just under two weeks to go, it has not been possible to find a candidate who can seriously challenge Sepp Blatter? Jerome Champagne, after a year of campaigning, may now not even get on the ballot, Prince Ali cannot win his own Asian confederation and, as far as the candidacy of David Ginola is concerned that sounds like a nice bookmaker's wheeze.



The reason for this is that while Blatter has hugely upset the world, indeed at after dinner speaking gigs in Britain you are guaranteed a laugh if you even mention the name of the Swiss, he has not upset the people that matter to him: the national associations, or at least not in sufficient numbers. Blatter knows that and we can be sure he will milk this election as if he is Ronaldo playing for Real Madrid against Granada, the bottom club in La Liga.[image error]