Sepp Blatter must go

Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney and Shadow Health Minister, has joined the growing chorus of public figures calling for Sepp Blatter to part company with FIFA:

‘Sepp Blatter does not seem to have understood that footballers are role models for people across the world, including children and youngsters. I’d dread to think that we’re instilling in British children the attitudes shown by Sepp Blatter. It is really shocking and concerning.

‘The message that Sepp Blatter has sent out could turn the clocks back on years of hard-fought progress in stamping out racism in football stadiums, pubs, playgrounds and workplaces. I think Rio Ferdinand is right to say that it shows gross ignorance.

‘It is absolutely clear that his position as the head of world football is untenable. If I was a FIFA sponsor, I would be thinking very carefully right know as to whether I wanted to be associated with an organisation headed by Sepp Blatter, after the comments he has made.’

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