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Uruguayan chap to be extradited from Switzerland to the USA also announced today... Only a couple of weeks ago there were rumours circulating that Valke was looking at the possibility of running to replace Blatter btw, think it was with support from the Africans and Americas :lol:!!

Forgot to post at the time but there was something in my paper early this week saying that Blatter sold World Cup rights to Warner and Webb for peanuts they then re-sold.

EDIT: Aye, found it in the paper rack, it was Monday's Scotsman. Blatter signed-off the sale of Caribbean TV rights for South Africa 2010 & Brazil 2014 to the Caribbean Football Union for $600k... CFU then licensed them to a company in the Cayman Islands - owned by Warner... it then sold it to Jamaican TV for $18-20M, a mark-up of over 30 times!! Jeffrey Webb later became a director of Warner's company. In the small print of their deal with FIFA the CFU were supposed to hand-back 50% of any subsequent profits "but few if any payments from profit share were ever made".

Warner also bought the Trinidad & Tobago domestic TV rights for France 1998 for the princely sum of $1 :lol:. You really couldn't make it up.

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Just came on to post the Valcke thing too.

You know what's pretty shameful? It took the United States Department of Justice to start cleaning up football. The Swiss are just following their lead.

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Apparently paid him 2M Swiss Frances in late 2011 "for work performed between 1999 & 2002" :lol:. Platini - favourite to succeed Blatter and 'clean up FIFA'?

I still wonder what John McBeth makes of all this... hounded out for being 'racist' in his criticisms of Jack Warner, now vindicated to the power of X.

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Oh dear. 'Gallic shrug'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34396551

Michel Platini, the head of European football's governing body Uefa, is being treated as "in between a witness and an accused person'' by Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at the world football authority Fifa.

Prosecutors accuse Fifa president Sepp Blatter of making a "disloyal payment" of $2m (£1.6m) to Mr Platini.

Mr Platini has provided information to the investigation but said he did so as a witness.

Both men deny wrongdoing.

Mr Platini has said he is still determined to run for Fifa president once Mr Blatter steps down.

Asked whether criminal proceedings had been opened against him, Mr Platini said: "Absolutely not. I was heard last week by the Swiss Authorities only as a person providing information and I cooperated fully."

But this has been contradicted by the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber.

"We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person."

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