Friday 29 May 2015 13:22, UK
A bomb threat and a political protest have disrupted FIFA's congress on the day Sepp Blatter's critics hope will signal his exit.
Blatter refused an 11th-hour plea from Michel Platini to stand down in the wake of this week's corruption allegations involving high-ranking FIFA officials and will instead stand for a fifth term as president today.
The 79-year-old gave a defiant statement on Thursday and warmed to his theme as he formally opened FIFA's 65th congress with a 'president's address'.
He argued responsibility for ensuring good behaviour should not just fall at his door and said: "You can't expect everyone to behave ethically just like that."
Blatter also raised "a question mark" over the timing of this week's arrests and linked the two ongoing criminal investigations to the 2010 decision to award Russia and Qatar the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a pro-Palestinian protester ahead of a proposed vote on Israel's FIFA status, and there was a further twist at lunchtime as Swiss police confirmed an unspecific bomb threat had been made.
General secretary Jerome Valcke later said the assembly hall had been checked and cleared for the congress to continue.
Blatter has now made a number of speeches since seven high-ranking FIFA officials were arrested on corruption charges, but he is yet to open himself up to the scrutiny of the world's media in Zurich, and he again ignored questions from Sky Sports News HQ reporter Gary Cotterill as he arrived on the morning of the vote.
Even if he defeats rival candidate Prince Ali bin Al Hussein in today's vote, Blatter will not immediately take questions from reporters: FIFA announced on Friday the post-election press conference has been put back to Saturday.
The indications are Blatter retains enough support from the historically-supportive African and Asian confederations to win a new four-year term despite UEFA coming out in favour of Prince Ali.
But John Delaney, the Football Association of Ireland boss, doubts whether Blatter can see out another full term whatever happens today.
Arriving at the vote he said: "Blatter has presided over a farce. I hope he gets defetated. I think he'll win. Even if he wins I do believe it's the beginning of the end. If he wins the four years, I can't see him seeing the four years through."
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