Blatter & Platini banned from football

FIFA have banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini from football for EIGHT YEARS.

The two had been under investigation by the body's Ethics Committee amid the corruption scandal that has shaken up football governance in recent months.

 

And now, the adjudicatory arm of the committee has opted to suspend both men from all football-related activity.

 

The pair are in the dock over a "disloyal payment" made by Blatter to Platini in February 2011, supposedly for work done in 1999.

 

The Ethics Committee deemed that Platini's explanation of that payment was "not convincing". Platini has been fined 80,000 Swiss Francs, and Blatter 50,000.