This guestie comes from Birmingham University’s Paul Jackson and Heather Marquette. Acres (how many football pitches-worth, we wonder) have been written about the footballing earthquake that followed the arrest of several FIFA officials and the melodramatic end of Sepp Blatter’s reign. But here’s another angle. In the world of development politics there are striking parallels between Blatter’s leadership of FIFA since 1998 and the modus operandi …
Source: Reforming FIFA: what can we learn from experience with (other) corrupt autocrats?
Professor Heather Marquette 