PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Britain's once-untouchable position on FIFA's executive committee will be swept away after 67 years at this week's reform-driven Congress of world football's governing body.
England, and to a lesser extent Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, have had a love-hate relationship with FIFA from the time it was formed in 1904 and none of them were among the founding fathers.
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