Professional Footballers’ Association chief Gordon Taylor says Sepp Blatter should resign as Fifa president over his comments on racism.Blatter claimed that football does not have on-field problems with racism.
However Taylor told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: “When you see the corruption they’ve had at Fifa, I just feel it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
“The comments he made about homosexuals not going to Qatar; it’s time to move over for [Uefa chief] Michel Platini.”
Taylor was reacting to comments made by Blatter in two separate television interviews when the Swiss leader of football’s world governing body was asked whether he thought racism on the pitch was a problem in the modern-day game.
“I would deny it. There is no racism,” said Blatter.
Blatter’s comments are the latest controversy to hit Fifa, which has been led by the 75-year-old since 1998.
Former Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam was banned from football for life earlier this year after being found guilty of attempted bribery, while vice-president Jack Warner, who was suspended pending an investigation into bribery allegations, resigned.
Blatter has previously caused outrage when he suggested England had over-reacted in stripping John Terry of the national team’s captaincy. (BBC)