Vote for the Under Dog

Mohamed Bin Hammam has been confirmed as Sepp Blatter's only challenger in Fifa's presidential election on 1st June.  The 61 year old Asian confederation chief announced in March that he would stand against Blatter, 75, as head of football's world governing body.  Blatter has been president of Fifa since 1998 and recently pledged that if re-elected for a fourth term, he would step down at its conclusion in 2015.  As he's promised before and lied about...

Meanwhile, Blatter has reassured the Football Association that the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar was not part of a personal mission to take the competition to new territories.

On his first visit to England since the humiliation of last December's World Cup vote, Blatter also confirmed to the FA director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking and general secretary Alex Horne that there would be no repeat of simultaneous votes.  But Blatter's claim that the Russia and Qatar decisions were not part of a wider international strategy would appear to be at odds with his own statement published on the Fifa website at the end of December.  He wrote:

"We have made historic decisions in terms of sport and geopolitics. We've sent the World Cup to new territories. The 2018 World Cup will go to eastern Europe and the vast country that is Russia, and the 2022 event will go to Qatar, in the Arab world.  The World Cup will discover new cultures in new regions, and that's something I'm delighted about."

Yet more proof he says whatever he wants and yet never sticks with it  Ghastly man..