Why is it that international sporting bodies tend to be headed by people who are, to be polite, repellent?
The IOC - which has apparently cleaned its act up a bit - has historically been corrupt from top to bottom.
Motor racing's FIA is headed by Max Mosley. Enough said.
UEFA's old boss, Lennart Johannson, was a dreadful specimen.
And as for FIFA's boss, Sepp Blatter: his latest outburst is typically ignorant and offensive. According to Mr Blatter:
I think in football there's too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere. We are trying now to intervene in such cases. The reaction to the Bosman law is to make long-lasting contacts in order to keep the players and then if he wants to leave, then there is only one solution, he has to pay his contract.
I'm not going deal here with his failure to understand the purpose and nature of a contract of employment. But calling footballers modern slaves is simply disgusting.
Modern slaves don't earn
