I am sure Sepp Blatter is innocent, I am sure it is not true that the only reason he has remained president of FIFA is because of verbal threats to the various regional Football Associations that if they did not vote for him, they might find their funding allocation affected. I am sure that isn’t true. I am sure that he is repeatedly re-elected even though he is quite old now, because there are no other candidates better suited to the job. I am sure what keeps him in place is simply his energy, hard work, and … graft 🙂