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Boss Blatter: FIFA and U.S. Machine Politics

by Andrew Heath on June 3, 2015

Sepp Blatter’s house of cards is finally tumbling to the ground. After facing down allegation after allegation of corruption in football’s governing body, FIFA’s chief has been brought down, it seems, by a U.S. investigation

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