It suddenly struck me today that in FIFA Joseph Blatter has created a new church, with himself as Pope. His dictatorial approach to leadership and Machiavellian style of maintaining support remind one of the manoeuvring often portrayed in the college of cardinals.
The analogies throughout the whole system hardly need pointing out: thousands of people attending 'services' every saturday at 3pm, often giving hefty 'donations'; Blatter's insistence on separation of church and state leave him nicely infallible; opaque internal procedures always result in exactly the outcome that the top men want.
nice.
