Warner claims Blatter gave CONCACAF $1 million “gift”

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By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

May 29 – A furious Jack Warner tonight blasted back at being suspended by FIFA with a litany of mind-blowing corruption allegations against other senior officials, notably President Sepp Blatter and his number two Jerome Valcke that will ensure the row ripping the world governing body apart will continue for a long time yet. 

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David Owen: Blatter now has the opportunity to reform FIFA and restore its image

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One is rarely quite 100 percent sure with FIFA.

But it now looks like Joseph Blatter will get the go-ahead on Wednesday to extend his stint in the governing body’s top seat to 17 years.

Unless 75 percent of the organisation’s 208 member associations vote down the congressional agenda, it is hard to see what can stop the ‘election’ from going ahead, in spite of a campaign that has achieved the seemingly impossible by turning FIFA into even more of an international laughing-stock than it was before.

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Triesman England 2018 allegations unproven concludes FA report

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By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

May 29 – The four Executive Committee members, including Trinidad’s Jack Warner, accused by the former chairman of England’s 2018 World Cup bid chairman David Triesman of seeking sweeteners have been cleared by an independent report commissioned by the Football Association, FIFA disclosed today.

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Bin Hammam and Warner suspended by FIFA over corruption allegations but Blatter free to contest election

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By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

May 29 – The gravest corruption scandal in the history of FIFA exploded into controversy tonight when Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner, the two figures at the centre of the affair, were provisionally suspended pending a full inquiry but Sepp Blatter was given the all-clear to stand unopposed for a fourth term as the organisation’s President.

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