Sepp Blatter Won’t Do Video Replay, But He Will Do Google.

By: chris | December 17th, 2009

SOCCER/ Sad news from Sepp today: no video replay. A rather emphatic dismissal of video replay, in fact. It wasn’t quite leading us on, it was always unlikely, but still a bit disappointing.

“Referees shall remain human, and we will not have monitors to stop the game to see if we are right or wrong,” Blatter said. “Please don’t insist on this theme.”

“There will be no more discussion (between fans) and then no more hope and then no more life.”

Well that’s a little morbid, don’t you think?

That is perhaps the least worrying news to come out of this report. This little sentence-ender is enough to weaken the knees of the strongest superheros:

…added Blatter, who plans to run for re-election in 2011.

So no video replay while Sepp is in charge, which is rather stupid. (See: France v Ireland) And the chances that he stays in charge are likely, given FIFA seem to have all the integrity of…resisting Tiger Woods reference…a poker game between Thierry Henry, Luciano Moggi and…Tiger Woods. (Damnit.)

And if his reign is any sort of indication, there is no God and he will live to be 110, which rules out death as a way of getting some fresh blood and possible video replay.

But there is good news: upon typing “Sepp Blatter[space]” into the Google machine, some splendid results came up – all the way across the international board of Google.

Google.com.:

sepp2

Google.co.uk.:

seppuk

Google.ie.:

sepp3

Google.fr.:

seppfr

His reputation isn’t exactly what you’d call “top drawer”.

There are a few missing, however:

“sepp blatter hot pants”
“sepp blatter needs pants”
“sepp blatter creepy old dude”
“sepp blatter confused by strange sphere”

…and, if that recent picture up top hits the news waves:

“sepp blatter o-face”

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@ Dustin
Maybe it's already broken and needs fixing - have you thought of that?

The moment some of the world's biggest bookies (BWIN, etc.) became sponsors of some of the world's biggest clubs (Real, Milan, Bayern, etc.), the game stopped being beautiful and became something altogether different... namely, a business, which in turn became a cesspool of corruption.

It will be quite some time before we see any justice in football, let alone video replays, and all for one simple reason; how else will matches be fixed, if a video replay can over-turn a [corrupt] referee's decision? How will Sepp pay for his grandkids' schooling?

As someone mentioned, such systems (video replay) are already successfully in place in many other sports (tennis with Eagle Eye, NBA, throwball aka. American """football"""), but then again, the amount of money "in play" in these sports, in comparison to football, is negligible.

The rules in place (FIFA) are there to be bent according to the whim of the powers that be (video replay can be used to eject Zidane for a head butt that no one saw, but cannot overturn a blatant handball that was seen the world over), and with corrupt fossils like Blater in power, it will be quite some time before light shines on the game we hold so dear to our hearts (addiction).

Until then, it will be anything but beautiful………

P.S. Alcorcon – Real WAS fixed and that’s a fact. As was the Chelsea – Liverpool 4:4 “thriller” of a few seasons ago, which in turn resulted in the near bankruptcy of an Asian bookie. Glad to see Sepp and the Swiss boys so diligently investigating such games involving the big names… Anyone who thinks match-fixing is quarantined to the German 2. Bundesliga and below, or the Austrian Bundesliga, or the South/Eastern European leagues for that matter, simply needs to wake up and smell the roses…
Dustin

"So no video replay while Sepp is in charge, which is rather stupid. (See: France v Ireland)"

I disagree that it's stupid considering it will completely change the sport. Maybe we should be a little more careful about how we change the sport drastically or we'll break it.
Sir Hard Ass

Someone needs to silence Blatter, sniper-style!!!
Daryl

I love that "Sepp Blatter email address" is up there in the Irish Google searches. Can't think of any particular recent incident that would motivate Ireland fans to want to email Sepp Blatter though...