Saturday 30 May 2015 09:52, UK
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke will be surprised if Sepp Blatter lasts more than two years of his fifth term as FIFA president.
Dyke was not surprised to see Blatter gain four more years in charge by beating Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan in Friday's election in Zurich but the Swiss would have needed a second ballot to confirm victory had his sole rival not withdrawn before it.
Blatter won 133 of the 209 votes in the first round, seven short of the two-thirds majority he needed, with his opponent securing 73 votes, more than many had predicted before scandal struck football's governing body this week.
Dyke said: "To quote the Attorney General, 'this is the beginning of the process, not the end'. I think there is an awful lot more of this to play out.
"The idea Blatter could reform FIFA is suspect. I'd be very surprised if he was still in this job in two years' time.
The events of this week are so dramatic that I cannot see FIFA reforming itself under Blatter. He's had 16 years to reform it and he hasn't done it.
"I think we all expected him to win and I think that Prince Ali getting it to a second ballot wouldn't have happened if we had this vote a week ago and I think that's the impact of the events of this week.
"But I think this isn't over by any means because the events of this week are so dramatic that I cannot see FIFA reforming itself under Blatter. He's had 16 years to reform it and he hasn't done it."
Dyke said he expected Prince Ali to pull out of the second ballot and that he feared the Jordanian might even have got a lower vote than he did in the first ballot.
He said: "I expected he could have got a lower vote the second time, because a lot of people have to get planes and would have said hang on, he's quite clearly not going to win."
Dyke says the decision to re-elect Blatter will not lead to England pulling out of future World Cups unilaterally, although that could still happen as a group decision from other federations within UEFA, whose president Michel Platini hinted at his body pulling out of FIFA on Thursday should Blatter secure a fifth term.
He added: "England won't withdraw from anything on its own, let me be absolutely certain about that, that would be ridiculous.
"There will be discussions in FIFA about this result and what FIFA should do now, but that won't be England alone.
"This is the beginning, not the end. I think there is a lot more of this to play out."
