By Chris Wright
Sepp Blatter was briefly interrupted while garbling on at his FIFA press conference this afternoon when British comedian (and we use that term incredibly loosely) Lee Nelson usurped the FIFA president by bombarding him with money.
Blatter was halfway through announcing his plans to reform the organisation when Nelson, aka comedian Simon Brodkin, aka the bloke that stage-rushed Kanye West at Glastonbury a fortnight or so ago, approached the FIFA poobah where he sat.
Nelson then apparently told Blatter “this if for North Korea 2026” before lobbing a handful of fake bank notes over the FIFA president’s head…
As protests/comedic stunts/top lad banter go, it’s all a bit lacklustre and predictable (Brodkin’s stock-in-trade, as it happens), though it did lead to a series of wonderful images being captured by the photographers on hand – photos of Sepp being mesmerised by a shower of money that are bound to serve us and many others well in the future…
MONEY FIGHT!!!