Well, I certainly didn't see that coming.
After his re-election last week, I assumed we were in for four more years of sleaze and corruption at football world governing body, FIFA. However, yesterday it was announced that Sepp Blatter had resigned his post as president.
Perhaps he read my comments in these pages a few days ago and decided to do the honourable thing for the sake of football.
More likely the news that he is also to be investigated along with his money grabbing cronies, forced him to fall on his sword. Whatever the reason, it has to be a great day for football.
Now FIFA must elect the right person to lead them and ensure that everything possible is done to eradicate the corruption. If that includes having another vote on the venues for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup competitions, then so be it.
As a footnote I noticed that one wit had posted online this picture of a new mystery candidate for the FIFA presidency role.
Now who could that be?
So the "odious little toad" Sepp Blatter has won an unprecedented fifth term as President of FIFA, I now suspect that there will be a major split in the echelons of world football.
While Blatter may have the support of Asia, Africa and part of Central America, the opposition of Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Canada may mean that the future of the World Cup is in jeopardy. Either those football confederations will leave FIFA or Blatter will ensure that they suffer some form of recrimination for their disloyalty. I suspect he is not a man to forgive or forget.
The shame of it is that if Blatter truly cared about football rather than his own egotistical vanity, he would have stood down before this latest farcical election.
Sadly it seems that we now face another few years of scandal and corruption. Certainly not a good thing for our beautiful game.
