The remarkable similarities between FIFA's Blatter and BCCI's Srinivasan

There is probably a school where people like Sepp Blatter and N Srinivasan go to where they are trained in the dark arts of controversy and corruption, and it probably looks a lot like Hogwarts. When the Supreme Court told Srinivasan to step aside as board president while hearing the IPL betting and fixing case, Srinivasan kept insisting that he had not been charged with anything and therefore should be able to stay on the throne. And Blatter’s defence was no different. “The president is not involved,” FIFA spokesperson Walter De Gregorio said on Wednesday. “Of course he is the head of FIFA, but he is not involved so how can you say he has to step down?” _Firstpost_ ’s Tariq Engineer had earlier written that “Both the BCCI and FIFA share a similar philosophy as well. They have stridently maintained they are private bodies that operate within their own rules and guidelines and are not subject to outside interference. They are the Lords and Masters of their universe."  Blatter and Srinivasan in their matching mastery of the art of survival could well be long-lost twins, separated at birth on a particularly hectic match day, adds Mint. They have also said remarkably similar things. Here are a few choice examples:  In the middle of the corruption scandal Sepp Blatter told the FIFA Congress on 29 May 2015: