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is referred to as "Sepp (50 ideas a day, 51 bad) Blatter". Glanville said: "The World Cup has become worse and worse over the years—it is bloated. Whatever Sepp
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in the latter, saying he had displayed "a flair, a superlative technique, a tactical sophistication, seldom matched by an
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could be "very spiky, but in the final analysis I didn't get on badly with him and he gave people access." Glanville also mentioned how he thought
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was "grotesquely overrated", that he was "a very inadequate manager and he failed so badly in Europe" (a reference to the failure to qualify for
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as "the doyen of football writers—arguably the finest football writer of his—or any other—generation", and by
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magazine for over 50 years in print and online, and has authored a weekly column for the website covering a range of issues.
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