Even at the moment of his final defeat on Tuesday, Sepp Blatter couldn't give up the bluster and spin and that insufferable habit of painting himself as the hero.
Blatter is going, going and soon to be gone as president of FIFA, no longer able to either idly sit by while soccer's governing body wreaks mass-scale corruption or directly involved in it himself, depending on who you believe.
Just four days after pumping his fists and celebrating re-election to a fifth term in power, a humbled Blatter announced at a hastily convened press conference Zurich that he was, at last, climbing down from his ivory tower just as the United States government's investigation into FIFA shifts into high gear.