Everyone’s favourite footballing organisation and its president have been hacked on Twitter, with hilarious results.
By Adrian Collins
Sepp Blatter doesn’t do himself or his public relations people any favours with his pronouncements in the media about women’s football, resistance to technology and that time he took the piss out of Ireland after the Thierry Henry incident.
However, he might at least get some new followers on Twitter today after both his and FIFA’s official accounts were hacked and some pretty compromising tweets were posted up.
In particular, the hackers (calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army) wanted to make it clear that they think Sepp might have been taking a bit of cash under the table.
The “official” FIFA account then announced that Sepp was going to be thrown out on allegations of bribery:
But “Sepp” doesn’t care, by all accounts. He’s already got a successor in mind, as well as the location of the next World Cup.
The one that will probably cause the biggest stir is this one, the picture of the emir of Qatar with some seriously dodgy hashtags, which was posted to both official accounts:
Whatever happens, this is one way of getting Blatter to answer a few questions that a lot of people have been asking since the decision to award the World Cup to Qatar.
