Sepptic

Usually with this blog I try and keep my most controversial thoughts to myself.

I don't want it to be sanitized and I don't want to lie, but at the same time with my limited grasp of the law you have to be careful. Notice for example how I've not touched the Harry Redknapp tax evasion thing at all - obviously I've got my opinion on that but whilst these things are contentious I think it best to err on the side of caution.

Tonight, I'm breaking that rule.

Sepp Blatter is a complete and utter moronic waste of space.

Don't give me the 'context' or 'lost in translation' bullshit, because that is exactly what it is. Tevez has tried that pathetic defence too often, it just does not hold water most of the time. It's only after the fact, when one of these idiots realises they're about to get in trouble for what they've said, that they fall back on that excuse.

His comments about racism in football are, to my mind: incorrect, abhorrent, potentially damaging and so out of touch as to be laughable.

I've been fortunate to grow up in an era where racism in football crowds in England is thankfully, in my experience, almost extinct. My first game was at the Dell in 1988, but really I don't remember much until about 1994. I vividly remember some arsehole at Saints calling Emile Heskey, then a youngster at Leicester, a "diving black bastard" for which he was almost beaten up by his supposedly fellow Saints fans. He may well have dived, but to bring his race into it was rightly seen as disgusting, disgraceful, and unforgivable, and he was forced into an apology which was the only way he avoided a kicking.

That being said, I have witnessed through the TV countless examples of base, atrocious attitudes, manifesting themselves in monkey noises or horrible chants aimed at (usually) black players. On occasions where the governing bodies have taken action, the penalties have always been farcical in their leniency, it almost made you think they tolerated or dismissed this kind of thing. With Blatter's comments yesterday that players should take this thing as part of the battle, and settle it with a handshake, he is pretty much confirming that shameful fact.

I never accepted Ron Atkinson's argument to try and get himself off the hook. Normal decent people do not have the n word in their vocabulary (or the p word, or any other vile ones you might know). As angry as you can be with someone, you can drop a c bomb by all means, but unless you harbour those thoughts, you will not call someone by that name. If you do use it, you Sir are a racist. By showing his true thoughts on the matter, effectively saying being called a racist slur is the same as being called a wanker, Blatter is showing his complete ignorance. I won't go as far as to call him a racist, but I will call him a complete fucking idiot who has no right being in the position he is in.

Crooked, out of touch, and utterly incompetent. Sepp, your time has been up for a long, long time. The sooner you are gone form this role, the better. Football deserves better.

Kick racism out of football? Absolutely. Let's start by kicking Sepp Blatter out of football.