Sepp Blatter held a press conference to announce that the FIFA special election to replace him as president will take place on February 26th, but before he could announce much of anything, English comedian Lee Nelson (who was last seen screwing with Kanye at Glastonbury) took the stage to publicly humiliate Blatter by throwing a bunch of (fake) money at the possibly corrupt, definitely slimy FIFA president. It was pretty great:
Look at Blatter’s reaction! “Ew, gross, paper money that hasn’t been laundered through a Cayman Islands account!” He left the room while some of his underlings could clean up all the fake cash, so that he could be taken very seriously as he spouted more ridiculous garbage like this:
Blatter: "after this tsunami on 27 May came to Zurich, the waves have taken me away? Not at all. Not at all."
— Richard Conway (@richard_conway) July 20, 2015
And this:
Blatter refuses to declare how much he earns despite announcing that salary transparency is part of reform process.
— Richard Conway (@richard_conway) July 20, 2015
And especially this, in reaction to the money toss:
@SeppBlatter has communed with his late mother about prank. "I just called my late mother and she said don't worry, its lack of education"
— Paul Kelso (@pkelso) July 20, 2015
That’s the kind of crap that makes people want to throw fake money in your face, Sepp. Well, that and the rampant corruption.
(Via Richard Conway, Miriti Murungi and Nathan Irvine)
