In less than a week, the public face of FIFA has gone from something resembling an old-style Communist Party rally, with a defiant Sepp Blatter fronting ranks of flag-bearing youths, to what looks more like a scene from "Reservoir Dogs."
Despite dawn arrests and U.S. indictments of FIFA men past and present, Blatter opened world soccer's annual congress on a high last week, knowing he was going to be re-elected president for a fifth term.
Now he is heading for the exit, and as U.S. prosecutors dig into what they say is a $150 million bribery racket going back years, Blatter's former top FIFA aides look like Quentin Tarantino movie characters pointing guns at each other in a Mexican stand-off.