Thanks to FIFA.com

If you watched almost any FIFA soccer game since 2006, you’ll notice all of the bright yellow signs that say things like “My Game is Fair Play” and “Say No to Rascism.”

Such displays have been a policy of the international soccer organization since 2002 when President Joseph S. “Sepp”  Blatter proclaimed:

Racism is a blight that we must eradicate forcefully and resolutely. Football has a unifying power that can and must be used to combat discrimination of all kinds.”

Mr Blatter’s pledge to eradicate racism “forcefully and resolutely” seems, however, not to include actual soccer players.

Recently Liverpool’s Luis Suarez hurled racial abuse on Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.

When asked about racism on the field during a CNN Sport interview, President Blatter gave this eloquent response:

I would deny it. There is no racism, there is maybe one of the players towards another, he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one, but also the one who is effected by that, HE should say that this is a game. We are in a game, and at the end of the game, we shake hands, and this can happen, because we have worked so hard against racism and discrimination. I think the whole world is aware of the efforts we are making against racism and discrimination. And, on the field of play sometimes you say something that is not very correct, but then at the end of the game, the game is over and you have the next game where you can behave better.”

And that’s how Sepp steps in it.

Hey, at least racism is over!