Now that the money Blatter received has been quietly moved to his Swiss bank (pardon my cynicism) here is today's sport headline: Blatter labels 2022 World Cup award a ‘mistake’

"Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted the decision of world football’s governing body to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was “a mistake”, adding it was now “probable” that the tournament would be played in the winter months." 

Like he didn't know that that was his plan all along, replete with the walk back on the number of  wonderfully air conditioned stadia that he so loudly touted, Blatter flaunts his arrogance with this lame mea culpa!  Every fan, every city that has a team, every football organization will suffer at this man's temerity to move the World Cup to winter months...  And the fact that he is getting away with it is all the more galling...

HERE IS WHAT I WROTE IN THIS POST BACK IN AUGUST 2013:

Back when the votes for future World Cups were taken, Sepp Blatter - the teflon head of FIFA - was adamant that the reason Qatar would be able to play the World Cup 2022 in summer was because of the extraordinary air conditioned stadia that the Qataris would build! He went on to say that there would be no moving the WC to winter months, as that would be heresy... The fix was in for Qatar and Russia getting their World Cups because Blatter single-handedly determined - in an unprecedented move - that the votes should be taken for both 2018 and 2022 simultaneously, if you recall. Voting blocks were traded between them and Blatter came out all the more personally financially well-off (according to all reports) for having orchestrated placing a World Cup in a country that has no football history whatsoever...  Today, as the sports press reports the following, I ask the question, how does this guy get away with all the shit he pulls???  Incomprehensible to me...