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Blatter must resign - PFA chief

Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor has called for FIFA boss Sepp Blatter to stand down following his comments about racism in football.

Blatter has come under fire for his latest remarks, claiming racist abuse between players on the pitch should be settled by a handshake.

On the day that the Football Association charged Liverpool striker Luis Suarez with racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra, and with an ongoing police investigation against John Terry, Blatter claimed racism on the field of play was not a problem.

The Swiss has since issued a statement in a bid to clarify his comments, but Taylor believes the FIFA president's position has become untenable.

"This is a bridge too far, the straw that broke the camel's back," Taylor told Sky Sports News."He made offensive comments some time ago about female footballers and then more recently he was very homophobic in Qatar.

"We have had the World Cup bid process, we have had corruption in his own back yard, the total failure to use technology to get justice on the field - but this just goes beyond the line to talk like he did - it just shows he is totally out of tune and out of time.

"He should move aside for Michel Platini, it is embarrassing. If one person should get it about racism it is the head of FIFA, which has 200 countries in the world that are so diverse with different backgrounds, colours, cultures, creeds. If he's not getting it, we have got to move on."

When asked if Blatter needs to step down, Taylor replied: "Without a shadow of doubt.

"He doesn't understand how divisive racism is - it creates 'them and us'. Football should be about pulling people together in society, that is what we are working hard on in England and why we are educating children, racism is caught not taught, we want a world where nobody even thinks about prefacing what they say with the colour of a person's skin.

"But when you have the head of the world body saying that anyone on the receiving end on the pitch of racism should just treat it as part of the game and shake hands, it is outrageous and he is just not with it."

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