Sepp:I am not to blame-FIFA Corruption

Fifa President Sepp Blatter has released a statement on the latest huge corruption scandal rocking the World's football governing body.
Soccer alerts reported yesterday that not less than  6 FIFA officials were arrested on Wednesday morning during a dramatic dawn raid at a five-star hotel in Switzerland over allegations of bribery totalling more than £60m over the past 25 years,". FIFA have been rattled by the situation and President Sepp Blatter who is expected to win a fifth term in office is facing tough time at the helm and is actively lobbying for Friday's ballot being postponed. CNN News have comfirmed reports that  former Fifa executive whose reported role as FBI informant is believed to be central to the US investigation, may have co-operated with law enforcement, but he has nothing to say publicly right now.
 The ill 70-year-old was tracked down to his Manhattan hospital room by reporters. Blazer was following the drama in Switzerland via emails on his smartphone, but did not want to discuss his role in the drama.
“I can’t talk,” he mouthed to the reporter. In a follow-up a phone call, a lawyer for Blazer confirmed: “We have no comment”.
Blazer faces up to 15 years in prison after secretly pleading guilty in 2013 to a series of charges, including racketeering, wire fraud, money laundering and income tax evasion. But his sentence is likely to be substantially reduced in return for his role as a co-operating witness in the plea deal.
Blazer was the long-time deputy to Jack Warner at Concacaf, football’s regional governing body, but the two men later fell out. He allegedly received $750,000 from the South African government in return for backing its 2010 World Cup bid.
Blazer was a larger than life figure who enjoyed the high life, renting an apartment for his cats next to his Manhattan penthouse, as he earned a reported $21 million in fees, commissions and pay from Concacaf.He was confronted over unpaid taxes by federal agents as he made his way to a meal in 2011 at a celebrity restaurant on one of the motorised scooters that he used to transport his bulky frame. “We can take you away in handcuffs now or you can co-operate,” the agents told him. 
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Sepp blatter in he's normal stead stated simply that you will agree with me, these are unprecedented and difficult times for Fifa. The events of yesterday have cast a long shadow over football and over this week’s congress. Actions of individuals, if proven, bring shame and humiliation on football and demand action and change from us all. We cannot allow the reputation of football and Fifa to be dragged through the mud any longer. It has to stop here and now. I know many people hold me ultimately responsible for the actions and reputation of the global football community, whether it’s a decision for the hosting of the World Cup, or a corruption scandal.
We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it. But it must fall to me to bear the responsibility for the reputation and wellbeing of our organisation and to find a way forward to fix things. I will not allow the actions of a few to destroy the hard work and integrity of the vast majority of those who work so hard for football. I must stress that those who are corrupt in football are in a thin minority, like in society. But, like in society, they must be caught and held responsible for their actions.
Football cannot be the exception to the rule. That is our responsibility as Fifa and we will co-operate with all authorities to make sure than anyone involved in wrongdoing, from top to bottom, is discovered and punished. There can be no place for corruption of any kind. The next few months will not be easy for Fifa. I’m sure more bad news may follow. But it is necessary to begin to restore trust in our organisation. Let this be the turning point. More needs to be done to make sure everyone in football to make sure everyone behaves responsibility and ethically, and everywhere also outside of the field of play, where there is no referee, no boundaries and no time limit.
Football, the fans, the players, the clubs, the world, deserves so much more and we must respond. Tommorrow, the congress, we have the opportunity to begin on what will be a long and difficult road to rebuilding trust. We have lost that trust, at least a part of it, and we must now earn it back. We must earn it back through the decisions we make, through the expectations we place on each other and through the way we behave individually. The vast majority, we are all in football and we like this game, not for greed, not for exploitation, not for power, but the cause of love for the game, for this game.