Blatter wants flares to go out of fashion in stadiums


FIFA President Sepp Blatter arrives for a news conference at the Club World Cup soccer tournament in Marrakech December 19, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter does not want to see any more flares and firecrackers in soccer stadiums and described the people who let them off as arsonists.

"We don't need fire and flames in the stands," he wrote in FIFA's weekly magazine.

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