Alice in Wonderland and other stories

Good to hear David Bernstein add his views to the current controversy about FIFA, telling BBC Sport "Fifa is sort of a totalitarian set-up. Bits of it remind me of the old Soviet empire. People don’t speak out and if they do they get quashed. The choosing of Qatar was clearly one of the most ludicrous decisions in the history of sport. You might as well have chosen Iceland in the winter. It was like an Alice in Wonderland sort of decision".

Is there something of the Hatter about Sepp Blatter? Or is he more like the Cheshire Cat, slowly disappearing from view leaving only his grin and a load of unanswered questions about how FIFA really operate? I can't help thinking of the Eddie Barzoon character in The Devil's Advocate, the man who Kevin Lomax sees in the basement frantically burning incriminating files, which then begs the question, who would get to play Blatter's boss in the film of his life?