Crossword blog: Sepp Blatter's infuriating crossword habit

The Fifa boss Sepp Blatter loves crosswords. Why is this so annoying?

I do sudoku and crossword puzzles, play patience and FreeCell (a computerised form of solitaire).

Sepp Blatter, there, talking to South Africa’s Sunday Times in 2007. We recently asked the question: is it OK to solve crosswords at work? The answer, of course, depends on the work.

Sepp Blatteris such an underemployed simpleton that he spends much of his time in his palatial office filling in crosswords, playing patience on a computer, smoking expensive cigars and talking to a battered old teddy bear called Frederick.

Sometimes we’ll sit down as a group and try to plough through it as fast as we can. Whoever’s doing the writing doesn’t even get to look at the clues. They’re writing so fast because of the people leaning over their shoulder firing out answers.