Platini Accuses FIFA Ethics Committee Of Witch-Hinting

Blatter pleaded his innocence on Monday and announced he will appeal the suspension, and Platini has followed his lead.

France’s sports minister questioned the legitimacy of FIFA’s Ethics Committee on Tuesday after it imposed an eight-year ban that appears to have ended his compatriot Michel Platini’s chances of becoming head of the world football body.

Platini is determined to plough on in his quest to become the most powerful man in football.

The FIFA Ethics Committee which found Blatter and Platini guilty said they demonstrated an “abusive execution” of their positions.

However, Platini acknowledged he may run out of time if the issue is not resolved quickly in his favour.

“I don’t think you can put Blatter and Platini in the same boat”, Aigner said.

However, the salary agreement was never disclosed in Federation Internationale de Football Association documentation until the payment was made in 2011.

“There was a debt that was settled, full stop! It looks the most promising though now though, it looks like he is a on a back foot now because he looks more exposed then he has ever been in the past”. I will have taken a battering.

Platini has joined disgraced FIFA honcho Sepp Blatter as recipients of severe disciplinary action from football’s governing body.

Platini has already indicated that he will appeal the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but Blatter in an interview with the Wall Street Journal seemed to have resigned to his fate.

But Moses Foh-Amoaning who was a member of a three-man Presidential Commission that probed Ghana’s disastrous campaign at the 2014 World Cup says these two top executives of FIFA have been left off easy as per the evidence adduced in the hearings, deserve a life-time ban from football.

The United States was initially preferred by Blatter and Platini until the latter reportedly changed his mind and backed Qatar following an alleged meeting with then-France president Nicolas Sarkozy and Qatari officials. “According to Swiss law, to suspend someone for eight years, you must have committed a murder or a bank robbery”. “It’s fantastic!” Platini insists he should not be bunged into the same bracket as Blatter, who has always been suspected of corrupt practices. Being banished from soccer is the immediate humiliation, but Blatter and Platini could yet face criminal prosecutions with the attorney general in no hurry to rush the case.

“I regret I am a punching ball and for my organization I have served with my heart and conscience for 41 years”, Blatter said during his opening statement.