Blatter named football's most controversial figure of 2015 by Goal readers

Sepp Blatter has been voted as the most controversial figure in 2015 by Goal users - landing over a third of the votes.

The 79-year-old has endured a turbulent year after being in the centre of Fifa's corruption scandal, and although he still denies any wrongdoing, the disgraced president ended 2015 with an eight-year ban from all football-related activity.


Second in the poll was Diego Costa, who crashed and bullied his way through the year with Chelsea and ended up with 16% of the vote.

Real Madrid president and Florentino Perez and Karim Benzema were tied in third with 8% of the vote, while Rafa Benitez and Denis Cheryshev, the man at the heart of the Spanish club's Copa del Rey ban, ended up with 7% of the vote.