Monday, December 16, 2013

Fifa's Sepp Blatter goes to court to ban book of cartoons...

Sepp Blatter, the president of Fifa, whose middle name should be "Controversy", has walked into another embarrassing row.

As The Observer's David Hills reported yesterday, he has won an injunction in Switzerland, his native country, in order to prevent the publication of a book of amusing satirical cartoons.

The book, by Danish cartoonist (and former footballer) Olé Andersen, features a Blatter lookalike. According to his lawyers, Blatter "has a good reputation and if the cartoons were published he would never be able to repair the damage."

But Blatter's attempt to ban the book - The Platter Cartoons - has only served to draw attention to it. The story of his legal action is being mocked in Switzerland and across Europe. Full story...

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