Lonely times for many soccer fans

It doesn't help to have a name that resembles a urinary tract infection but Sepp Blatter, the head of global soccer governing body FIFA, has more pressing concerns, even after tendering his resignation having faced what seemed like a daily deluge of corruption allegations.

Even the soccer authorities in my own country, Ireland, have taken money for the sound of silence.

At least the English can breathe a sigh of relief, with no allegations of corruption leveled at the Football Association but then as one hack said, it's been decades since England did anything noteworthy in FIFA.