Sion president compared Sepp Blatter to Gaddafi

Sion president Christian Constantin does not think that FIFA will suspend Switzerland from all international football – as the world federation threatened at the weekend, the worldsoccer.com reports.

He said: “FC Basel fully deserve to be where they are and I am sure they will play in the second round. Look at it this way: do you think FC Bayern will want to play Manchester United in the second round?

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in Tokyo, after a two-day meeting of his executive committee, that the SFV had been given until January 13 to bring to heel the rebellious club which has been fighting the national and international authorities through the sports and civil courts in a transfer ban row.

“FIFA is behaving like Libya under the dictator Muammar Gaddafi in December 1988 when he wanted to punish the United States and so attacked an aircraft belonging to a U.S. airline. The people who suffered were innocent bystanders. In this case, it would be FC Basel.”