Blatter Separates Fifa from football logic

Being Sepp Blatter‘s head of communications must be a constant nightmare, a hair-pulling, desk-pounding, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen bastard of a job. Imagine the exertion required to ensure that Sepp doesn’t spend all day, every day, exposing his laughably one-sided beliefs and shocking lack of knowledge concering the world of football. Maybe the answer is that he doesn’t employ any communications staff. It would certainly explain the regular appearance of comments in the press such as these.

Fifa rules not ok

Ok, quick rant. Why, why why does the rule exist whereby if a premier league official has seen an event take place but has not drawn attention to it at the time – I’m thinking of Jose Bosingwa’s studs in Yossi Benayoun’s back (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/7869305.stm) – then it is impossible for any retrospective disciplinary action to be taken?

If a referee’s decision can be overturned, why can’t indecision be similarly punished? I’m not saying there should be a panel with the power to indiscriminately dish out penalties and suspensions arbitrarily, but in obvious cases of foul play there should be a system to look at incidents individually.

The idea that if an offence went unnoticed completely, it can be retrospectively punished, but not if someone saw it but didn’t do anything about it is nonsensical.

Sepp Blatter, sort it out.