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It all sounds very Star Wars to me. Any suggestions for other potential recruits to the council of wisdom? Maybe if they got Superman they could all meet at his fortress of solitude?
Under-fire Fifa president Sepp Blatter has confirmed that Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo is his somewhat bizarre choice to advise football's world governing body on its problems.
Domingo will join 88-year-old former US secretary of state Henry Kissingerand ex-Holland international Johann Cruyff as advisers.
The announcement comes as the latest confusing move from Fifa in a fortnight which has seen the body surrounded in allegations of corruption prior to Blatter's re-election as president for a fourth term.
Blatter said: "These gentlemen are more or less advisers, they are not the experts, but advisers.
"They should be a kind of 'council of wisdom' which my executive committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom!
"They should be a kind of 'council of wisdom' which my executive committee would not like because they think they are the council of wisdom!"
It all sounds very Star Wars to me. Any suggestions for other potential recruits to the council of wisdom? Maybe if they got Superman they could all meet at his fortress of solitude?