Blatter was never slow in putting himself in the spotlight, such as when he presented the World Cup to Spain in South Africa in 2010

All the Fifa president’s men are now banned, arrested or indicted. But Sepp Blatter, the pantomime villain of world football and the subject of an eight-year ban plus twin criminal investigations over activities at the helm of the game’s world governing body, says that the future holds no fears for him.

“I am sure that there is justice in this world, and that I have committed nothing which goes to criminal law,” he says. “I have killed nobody, I have not robbed a bank, I have not taken any money from anywhere and I was even treating well all my ex-girlfriends. It’s true. They defend me. One I was married to only for a few months and she is really defending me.”

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