"Fifa Has No Credibility" by Platini's Lawyer

The lawyer representing Michel Platini told AFP
on
Saturday that FIFA had “lost all credibility” after
the ethics committee of world football’s governing
body requested sanctions against the Frenchman
and Sepp Blatter.
“It is a troubling coincidence the day after our
appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against
Michel Platini’s provisional suspension,” Thibaud
d’Ales, representing French FIFA presidential
hopeful Platini, told AFP.
“It’s farcical. It would be laughable if we were not
talking about the future of the biggest non-
governmental institution in the world.”
The investigatory chamber of FIFA’s independent
ethics watchdog announced earlier on Saturday that
it had submitted a final report to the body’s
judgement arm, which will weigh up the
recommendations for sanctions.
UEFA chief Platini, who was last month handed a
provisional 90-day ban, along with Blatter, by the
ethics committee, risks seeing his hopes of
succeeding Blatter as FIFA president permanently
derailed.