Ever get that feeling that even though a change is coming, nothing is actually going to be different?

That is the mood in the British media and public surrounding the upcoming Fifa elections.

With the suspended Sepp Blatter out of the picture, many had hoped that a genuine and honest candidate would emerge and lead football’s word governing body into a better future.

Someone who would immediately strip Russia and Qatar of the upcoming World Cups and try bring in outside help reform the organisation.

When former Uefa leader Michel Platini was ousted as another bad egg in world football, it left a huge hole which needed filling.

Platini was not only viewed as the natural successor to Blatter but the one to clean up the mess his former friend had left behind.

But the suspension put an end to that and football has been left with a group of men who are unlikely to fix the problems that plague Fifa.

Take the candidate replacing Platini, Gianni Infantino. Infantino has stood by the Frenchman for years and yet we are meant to believe that he was totally oblivious to what his boss was doing.

You want the next head of football to be someone who agreed with some of the worst decisions made by Uefa.

The implementation of financial fair play which was never going to work and failed at the first attempt.

Not to mention the fact that his manifesto looks eerily similar to that of Platini’s.

Expansion of the World Cup to 40 teams which while it would give more teams a chance, totally dilutes the competition and all but guarantees the bigger nations safe passage out of the group stage.

If anything, an expansion only helps the person who decides what extra teams should be allowed to play.

It opens the door to more federations promising that person whatever they want if they are can go to the extended World Cup.

After all that, this is the candidate the Football Association has backed to head Fifa?

One thing the FA has got right was questioning the character of Bahrain’s blood-soaked Prince Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa.

For readers unaware, Khalifa has been accused of dobbing in athletes who took part in demonstrations four years ago, where dozens were killed and many more arrested and tortured.

Khalifa has insisted that he has no “skeletons in his closet” yet we are led to believe that he is the favourite to succeed Blatter.

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who failed to unseat Blatter last May, is the only candidate who has structured his candidacy around independent reform and is deemed unworthy and supposedly stands no chance of winning, which is the real problem.

The person who wins on Friday is being billed as just another Blatter. Someone who has worked for Fifa for years and is happy with how things were under the Swiss so would be unwilling and reluctant to actually change anything.

In the eyes of those involved at Fifa, things are perfect and this call for change is just the British media throwing their toys out of the pram because they failed to win the bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

The inner-circle at Fifa is tight, no-one wants out and no-one wants the carpet ripped up and replaced.

The members that have been banned come across as the fall guys.

Almost like they were promised a comfortable retirement if they take the blame for a few things. That way, Fifa can pretend it has gotten rid of all the corrupt officials and everyone left are the good guys.

But even if that were true, people working for the organisation throughout the last two decades must have heard what was going on.

They must have seen the dodgy deals being made or called into question some of the plans that were being proposed. However, the perception is that they just chose to turn a blind eye and continue with what they were doing.

It is almost impossible to believe that everyone was totally unaware that bribes were being taken and people were hiding money.

Fifa cannot be trusted. Hence why Hussein wants the election postponed and for transparent voting booths to be brought in so there can be no cheating.

There has even been talks of it not being a secret ballot. That way you cannot call into question who won or how they won. It would be clear to everyone, candidate X won because they received the most amount of votes.

But what does that say about the voting process that these ideas have to be considered?

The evil inside Fifa is deep-rooted. It needs to be destroyed and recreated from scratch with no-one from the old regime present.

Unfortunately, this won’t happen and come Saturday morning, the new leader will continue to lead Fifa in a direction that no-one outside of the organisation wants to follow.