Right now Blatter is in the eyes of some the footballing anti-Christ, the reason what is so ugly about the beautiful game.
Oddly enough while authorities are arresting his disciples left, right and centre no one has as yet implicated the 79-year-old with any alleged corrupt practices.
Broadly speaking, the Western world, especially Europe, want him drawn and quartered but the Asian, African, South American and South Pacific nations see him as their messiah.
The so-called scandal unfolding is nothing but a tug of war between the haves and have-nots.
Blatter has returned to the world's most powerful sports position for an eighth term because of the votes from the underprivileged nations.
His unequivocal support base stems from the billions of dollars poured into the development of the sport in Third World countries. "Democracy", for what it's worth, demands Blatter return to power and those who didn't vote for him, including New Zealand, weren't prepared to accommodate him.
To me democracy will always be mob rule and the lynching process has begun.
Would the United States have instigated a witch-hunt with such zest if Blatter had awarded it the 2022 cup rather than Qatar?
I doubt it. It seems, all of a sudden a one-nation-one-vote electoral procedure isn't so palatable to some of the Fifa affiliates.
You have to be nave to believe corruption doesn't exist in any organisation, let alone a sporting one.
The allocation of venues for major sporting events - including the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Rugby World Cup, Cricket World Cup - has always come under the umbrella of such "democratic" principles.
The truth is venues are allocated akin to political parties forming coalitions and accepting funding from lobby groups with vested interests.
The late Charlie Dempsey's abstention from voting as Oceania Fifa executive rep cost South Africa the 2006 Fifa World Cup, eventually awarded to Germany.
That stank to high heaven amid transparency but not much transpired. The outcry in football is no different to top-tier cricketing nations bitching and belly-aching about India's bully-boy tactics with blind loyalty from minnows in the subcontinent and outsiders who stand to prosper from impending tours.
Gone are the days when developed nations can complain about the dangers of travelling to a World Cup staged in a politically, economically unstable or climatically challenging country.
Blatter made sure of that. How else can one explain Qatar winning hosting rights to what is the only authentic global tourney.
At first the 40-plus-degree heat did its rounds but now it is the "slave labour", amid fatalities, used to build the infrastructure which has taken over in media circles.
Tragic as it is, the fact remains scores of labourers and their families from the impoverished surrounding nations would die from disease and starvation if they didn't have such projects to give them a fighting chance in the game of life.
Check out those labourers' homes and you'll find many will fall within the ambit of squalor conditions. Put bluntly, it is a western perception.
If the McDonald's chain globally earns $75.21 million daily, is paying young staff a minimal wage of $14.75 tantamount to child slave labour?
In the 2010 World Cup there was widespread concern about crime and safety in South Africa but scores of Bay fans gave it a thumbs-up.
The women's Fifa U20 qualifiers to be staged in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in September next year in an island capital city where crime is rampant and cannibals still live in the highlands will be a source of trepidation.
Whether such adventurous moves would be entertained, let alone carried out under a non-Blatter regime remains to be seen.
Does New Zealand assume the mantle of Judas in kissing Blatter on the cheek after all those years of enjoying a relatively easy passage to the premier World Cup and reaping the financial rewards?
It isn't surprising other Oceania nations consider it blasphemous to entertain the thought of a Kiwi vote, let alone back it.
On a smaller scale, it speaks volumes on how other South Pacific nations feel about progress under traditional super powers.
In awarding the world's biggest team tourney to Russia in 2018, Fifa made it abundantly clear everyone is equal even though England's lobby group included royalty and David Beckham.
It is peculiar that a Jordanian prince was convinced to oppose Blatter in the polls but Europe couldn't find a worthy candidate. It's ironic England have threatened to boycott the next cup when in 1966, its finest moment in World Cup, African countries boycotted the tourney because they didn't have direct entry to the competition.
The reality is any talk of boycott is going to cause fragmentation - but no European nation's fans can bear the thought of not having a presence at a cup.
No doubt Fifa has problems but, I hasten to add, it is accentuated because of its prominence and wealth.
For Blatter to step down is a noble gesture.
