Blatter in denial over Fifa's image To read Sepp Blatter's four page re-election manifesto, you would think Fifa has never been in better shape. Listing his achievements since becoming president of world football's governing body in 1998, Blatter talks up the great sums of money Fifa has invested in football development (£1.02bn since 1999) and the even greater chunks of cash Fifa earns from television and marketing rights (over £2.45bn in the last four year cycle from 2007 to 2010).
But nowhere is there any commitment to clean up Fifa or to make the organisation more transparent after the latest series of corruption allegations levelled at the organisation.
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