April 26 – The shockwaves from Jack Warner’s ‘Straight Talk’ public meeting last night have reached as far as under-fire AFC presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa.
Warner was relentlessly pursued by English investigative journalist Andrew Jennings. Jennings has been instrumental in exposing a number of FIFA executive committee members and it is his BBC Panorama documentary that kept the ISL scandal at the top of football’s political agenda.
In a swipe at Jennings, Warner accuses him of being paid by Sheikh Salman during the 2009 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) elections to launch a smear campaign against Mohammed Bin Hammam. Salman and Bin Hammam were going head-to-head for a seat on FIFA’s executive committee.
“Jennings was the known “go to” thug for Sheikh Salman of Bahrain, a man known for his corruption and torture of footballers, footage of which has been shown on TV Stations and even the US Channel ESPN,” said Warner.
“In 2009, Jennings was paid thousands of British Pounds to launch the dirtiest smear campaign against Mohammed Bin Hammam and he was cocky enough to prance around the lobby of the Ritz Carlton and the Westin Hotels in Kuala Lumpur grinning like an idiot, convinced that his dirty tricks would work out in his and his client’s favour. I was there!!!
“Jennings’ dirty tricks failed.
“Jennings got extremely upset at his loss. Sheikh Salman fired him on the spot and with his tail between his legs fled to his beloved England from Kuala Lumpur.”
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