Just when you think the sordid John Terry saga couldn’t get any more ridiculous, Fifa president Sepp Blatter weighs in with one of his priceless pieces of wisdom.

To be fair, it appears this bloke only opens his mouth to change feet.

After all, this is the man who likened Cristiano Ronaldo to a slave – the winger was being paid £120,000 a week by Manchester United at the time – because his Old Trafford paymasters would not allow him to break his contract.

Now, the 73-year-old is seemingly trying to paint himself as some kind of aging Lothario by suggesting the Chelsea captain’s actions would perhaps have been applauded in some Latin countries.

So people in Latin countries have no morals or any sense of loyalty?

And what exactly would these depraved, morally bankrupt cretins celebrate?

The fact that Terry completed disregarded the wedding vows he swapped with his childhood sweetheart? That he would treat his close friend Wayne Bridge with such contempt?

Or possibly the fact that when it all went wrong and the media got wind of his cheating, he went running to the courts to have it all hushed up – driven, predominantly, by his fear of alienating his myriad cash-cow sponsors?

It has been somewhat disturbing that much of the outcry over Terry’s behaviour since it became public is that he would do it to a mate.

Take this, from former Wimbledon manager Dave Bassett: "I've had players who have left their missus or had bits and pieces on the side, but they've not gone off with a team-mate's bird. That's crossing a line."

If, sadly, we really cannot expect better in the testosterone-soaked cesspool that is a footballer’s life in England, then surely we can hope for more from an educated Swiss who is the figurehead of an organisation that oversees 26 million female players around the world?

But, then again, maybe not, given he was once president of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders, a laddish organisation that regrets the passing of suspender belts in favour of pantyhose by women.

Blatter’s late wife Graziella will be turning in her grave.