Newspapers on Monday urged the confederation of 11 South Pacific states to actively campaign for the demise of the Swiss football bureaucrat.

Emotions ran high with some football writers labelling Blatter as a double-crosser after FIFA overturned its decision six months earlier to give Oceania direct passage into the World Cup finals for the first time.

Blatter had made getting Oceania an automatic berth one of his campaign pledges when he was running for his second term 18 months ago.

Now the Australian football community is talking about getting even with Blatter over what they call his betrayal.

"First and foremost, all support for the presidency of Sepp Blatter must end," the Sydney Morning Herald urged on Monday.

"The man has spoken with a forked tongue once too often regarding Oceania. We were decisive in getting him elected and now we must campaign for his demise.

"His promise now that 'we'll do the utmost to win them (Oceania) back inside FIFA's family' is as empty as it is nauseating. He is up for re-election in 2006 and, having so ruthlessly betrayed Oceania, does not deserve a single vote.

"Instead, the region's 11 votes (12 if New Caledonia become a full member next year) must now be shifted to Asia, because in the murky world of FIFA politics, this is where our future lies.

"The Asians opposed Blatter in the last election, and Oceania now must form an alliance with our nearest neighbours. Not simply to rid the game of one man, but to create a better future for ourselves."

The Australian newspaper weighed in saying: "Here is the deception at its simplest. Blatter promised Oceania an automatic place in the next World Cup. For this Oceania had to vote for Blatter as president come the FIFA election. Having secured the presidency, Blatter turned his back on the countries represented by Oceania. A double cross."

The national newspaper said the excuse that uncertainty in Australian soccer administration had forced a FIFA re-think did not carry weight.

"FIFA does not give a fig about soccer in this region. The world body couldn't care less. It neither respects it nor cares for it. We are considered irrelevant and disposable," said The Australian.

"When Blatter wooed Oceania for its votes the (Australian) game was all but bankrupt, the Howard government had not intervened and the David Crawford report (on the running of Australian football) had not been initiated. If Australian soccer was stable enough to be given entry back then, it is no worse now."

Nick Greiner, the former Soccer Australia president and ex-premier of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, called FIFA's decision to strip Oceania of its World Cup finals spot an act of bastardry.

"You'd have to say it's an act of bastardry of great proportions," Greiner said on Monday. "I've seen a lot of political double-crosses in my time. This is right at the top of the tree."