D-Day for banned Blatter

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s fate hangs in the balance as the Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing into his six-year ban gets under way on Thursday.

Blatter’s 18-year run at the head of world football’s governing body ended acrimoniously last December when he was banned from the sport for eight years, later reduced to six, by the FIFA Ethics Committee.

The 80-year-old Swiss and the then-UEFA president Michel Platini were originally handed eight-year bans for a £1.35m payment that Blatter made to his close ally in …

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