Blatter Insists He is Not Fairly Treated By FIFA

Banned Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has insisted that he is not guilty of any corruption allegations while in power just six days before his successor is elected.

 

The 79-year-old administrator, who has appealed the decision of the football federation was banned for eight year ban from the sport, following a "disloyal payment" of £1.3m, which Blatter paid to UEFA president Michel Platini before winning his fifth Fifa presidential election in May.

Blatter also insisted the vote to host the 2022 World Cup was not fixed, saying: "You cannot buy a World Cup." The Times:

"I am sure there is justice in this world and that I have committed nothing which goes to criminal law," he said.

Blatter said: "I have killed nobody, I have not robbed a bank, I have not taken any money from anywhere and I was even treating well all my ex-girlfriends.

"It's true. They defend me. One I was married to only for a few months and she is really defending me."

The Swiss administrator is also under investigation for allegedly mismanaging funds belonging the the football governing body which he denied out-rightly.

Blatter returned to Fifa headquarters this week as his appeal was heard, but Fifa's ethics committee hopes to increase his punishment to a lifetime ban.

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, Gianni Infantino, Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne are the five candidates to replace Blatter as president.