Sepp Blatter has responded to his eight-year ban from football by insisting that he is not guilty of any wrongdoing over a payment to Michel Platini. The 79-year-old said that he remains president of Fifa, before stating that he will take his case to the court of arbitration for sport. The Fifa ethics committee, chaired […]
The FBI is investigating the role of Sepp Blatter in the $100m ISL scandal after the suspended Fifa president appeared to be implicated by his predecessor, according to a BBC Panorama documentary to be screened on Monday night. In a letter obtained by the FBI, and forwarded to Swiss authorities with a request for help, […]
Sepp Blatter has launched a remarkable attack on the “envy and jealousy” ofMichel Platini – blaming what he called an organised conspiracy of the Uefa president, the European Union and the media for bringing him down. In a wide-ranging interview with the Russian news agency TASS, Blatter spoke in detail about the £1.3m contract at […]
Could this, then, finally be it? Could the man who has been deeply embedded for four decades in a culture of cronyism and patronage finally be on his way out of the opulent edifice that houses an organisation he has built in his own image and presided over for 17 years? As representatives of the […]
Diego Maradona has claimed that he may be in line to become a vice-president of Fifa should Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein be elected as Sepp Blatter’s successor as president. The 1986 World Cup winner and former Argentina coach, whose last role in football was as “spiritual coach” to the Primera D side Deportivo Riestra, has […]