announced he would stand down after 17 years in the top job, four days after being reelected and lee weldingslive in zurich and lee how tense is this meeting likely to be? >> well i know this meeting will be very tense as was the meeting on sunday, a premeeting to get together executives and flush out as much as possible so they can just confirm it at the meeting today that is about to finish quite shortly, i spoke to a very important person in this process who will be taking the executives through the reforms that they want to get into place and of course one thing that has so much attention is one of the people driving this through is seemingly blatter who did not use the resignation word in june so the executive committee was getting very tense and wants blatter to go now and think it may be soon for that but talk of him finding a way to hang on through reform and be part of another election that's why the blatter will be going at some point and will set the date december, to elect a new president but it could spill into the new year. >> what about the likelihood lee from somebody outside

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standing down after 17 years in the top job just four days after being reelected and correspondence lee weldingse the fifa meeting is taking place and blatter to speak in an hour's time and just how tense is this likely to have been and is blatter definitely going to step down? >> i have no doubt at all that the meeting is extremely tense and i spoke to a key figure to push through reforms before the meeting started and premeeting on sunday and likely to get done but expecting it to be done by now and said these things with fifa and doing it a long time and they are never easy and where we expect already to have word from fifa about if reforms have gone through or a date for the new presidential election we have to wait a little longer and you asked about blatter it would be a huge surprise if he were to in any way try to carry on. i think this is now being over blown because mr. blatter wants to go on his own face and stop humiliation but many in the executive committee want him out straight away and there is a chance he will step down at any moment but looks like they will probably have to wai