During the Cold War analysts in the West had to decipher the politics of the Soviet Union using any small scrap of information they could find. The order by which members of the ruling politburo were positioned at public appearances, the arrangement of articles in the state newspaper or the removal of portraits were poured over to extract an understanding of what was truly going on behind the Iron Curtain. 'Kremlinology' was thus born. Trying to understand what is happening within Fifa right now is not too dissimilar. No-one is comparing Sepp Blatter or football's world governing body to an insidious Communist state. Let's be clear about that. But parallels can be drawn...
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