FIFA official urges Blatter not to go back on promise to quit

There's going to be hell to pay if John Oliver chugged that bottle of Bud Light Lime (and said it's deeeelicious!) for nothing.

"messages of support from Asian and African federations" - of course! They probably have invested, errr, sent, rather, many such messages over the years, on rectangular pieces of paper with numbers and autographed. "will continue in office" - the one with the shredder in it. "no suitable alternative candidate"... like one that can't be bribed?

Blatter is like herpes - awful and impossible to get rid of.

The only man in soccer who won't go down.

Wakarimasen, he is more like gonorrhea: drip by drip, the truth will come out. Take a look at the Nike scandal.

But it's not the 19th century anymore and European elitists have to learn that soccer is a global sport and they'll have to accept non-Europeans in positions of power in FIFA.

Burning Bush -- except you conveniently miss a couple of HUGE facts. First off, those "rich" countries you decry are the ones donating the vast amount of FIFA's budget, where the money Blatter is doling out to the poor countries, in exchange for votes, is coming from. Second, the number of actual soccer players in these rich countries still far exceeds the developing ones. So they have every right to be concerned when the game is in the state it is in.

Scala’s statement came after Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag cited an anonymous source close to Blatter as saying he had not ruled out the prospect of going back on his decision to resign after receiving messages of support from Asian and African federations.

I just hope Japan is not one of these "Asian" countries.

Can't they find people who aren't corrupt?

March 2016? That's crazy. This isn't what quitting means.

First off, those "rich" countries you decry are the ones donating the vast amount of FIFA's budget

Is that true? I've read that 90% of FIFA's revenue comes from event-related sources such as tv licensing and marketing rights for things such as the World Cup.

If he's part of the corruption, then he should go - no matter how much he helped Asia and Africa.

A corrupt official should not be accepted just because he helped you. That's the mafia.