| Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off. |
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| Better, said Blatter, to allow an offside goal than to disallow a good one. |
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| As we left his suite to allow him to prepare for his next meeting, Blatter engaged in the firm, sincere handshake of the seasoned electioneer. |
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| Blatter and de Goësbriand said that they were interested to see those two people at a table, although their communities clashed a few months ago. |
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| There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better than Blatter, although such gluttonous corruption will surely be more difficult. |
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| Blatter has long sought to end the Eurocentricity of world soccer. |
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| Under Sepp Blatter, its interminable head, the body has been opaque and corrupt. |
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| Blatter, a 75-year-old Swiss, faced an ethics panel to answer charges that he approved the payments. |
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| When I ask if his public attacks on Blatter and Fifa might have been rashly intemperate, his tone is nonchalantly defiant. |
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| Blatter isn't on the list of those accused, and, in the past, he has managed to rise above the seaminess enveloping his organization. |
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| Blatter was received on Monday in Stockholm by Fredrick Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden and current President of the European Council. |
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| And Havelange's chief administrator, eventually his successor, was Blatter. |
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| Blatter is popular in Africa, Fifa's biggest voting bloc, for bringing its first World Cup in 2010 and using Fifa cash to fund hundreds of facilities for national associations across the continent. |
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| Blatter and Platini both said the £1.35m was uncontracted salary based on a verbal agreement more than a decade earlier. |
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| Mr Garcia resigned and Mr Blatter sailed serenely on, reneging on a commitment not to stand for election again. |
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| Blatter commissioned this movie with £16m of Fifa's loose change to glorify Fifa, but mostly its longtime president. |
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| Garcia's decision will ratchet up pressure on Blatter to restore some form of confidence in his so-called reform process. |
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| The next step is for Hans-Joachim Eckert, the judge who heads the adjudicatory panel of the ethics committee, to decide whether to summon Platini and Blatter to disciplinary hearings. |
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| During a speech in which he called for 'fair play', FIFA president Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter was subjected to the boos of fans awaiting the start of the opening game between France and Senegal. |
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| Yet listen to the defeatists, who speak of geopolitical and economic realities, and there is a bleak inevitability about the election of Sepp Blatter, football's most powerful man, to a fifth term as Fifa president. |
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| Mr Bin Hammam has therefore requested that the investigation by the Ethics Committee be extended to include Mr Blatter himself. |
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| Many officials were suspended by FIFA's ethics committee including Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. |
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| The former president, Sepp Blatter is suspended pending a corruption investigation. |
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| In October 2013, Sepp Blatter spoke of guaranteeing the Caribbean Football Union's region a position in the World Cup. |
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| On 10 June 2015 Swiss authorities seized computer data from the offices of Sepp Blatter. |
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| President Blatter and Archbishop Tutu visited Winnie Mandela at her home in Soweto, before going on a tour of the Hector Peterson Museum, which is just a stone's throw away from Tutu's residence. |
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| Not, say, Sepp Blatter, on the odd chance you could rifle through his desk while he was in the bathroom, but someone you really think might be fun or interesting to be around? |
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| Last December, David Cameron and Prince William humiliated themselves by going to Zurich to dance attendance on Blatter during the vote on the 2018 venue. |
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| As the prevailing wind has changed direction, though, so too has Blatter. |
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| Blatter promises safe hands, bin Hammam talks of clean hands. |
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| In 2010 Mr Blatter went to Anguilla to inaugurate this. |
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| Many Russian Twitter users joked that Blatter would probably be offered a juicy job at a Russian state corporation, an eventuality that is not beyond the realms of possibility. |
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| Yet there is still unresolved mystery in the denouement, about why Blatter came to make that trembling, halting announcement to stand down four days after he triumphantly hailed his own re-election. |
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| The US authorities have warned that their investigation is far from over and the 14 executives charged are likely to be probed for any connection that links their actions to Blatter. |
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| Blatter's stunning announcement came a day before Blazer's testimony was due to be published in the US, which led to speculation that it would contain a bombshell for Blatter, an inference his aides rejected. |
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| The Hollywood Reporter has now confirmed the self-congratulatory project, starring Tim Roth as controversial outgoing president Sepp Blatter, scored the puniest total of all time in North America. |
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| You wonder whether Gary Lineker, an impressive, intelligent articulator of the disgust British football feels for Blatter, might have challenged African minds in a way that a Jordanian prince did not. |
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| So why has it taken until now for Blatter to definitively accept it may be a teeny weeny bit too hot to play football in the Middle East during the summer. |
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| South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and FIFA president Sepp Blatter awarded South Africa a grade 9 out of 10 for successfully hosting the event. |
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