Sentences with phrase «blatter by»

4 times or so had Arsenal been presented with chances to go top of the table on tables of blatter by our rivals.

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Last week, Sepp Blatter, who has served as FIFA's president for nearly two decades, announced that he would be stepping down as reports emerged that he too was being investigated by the FBI...

It's official: Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, has been suspended by his own organisation.

FIFA appeal committee that reduced Blatter, Platini bans headed by Larry Mussenden of Bermuda who is currently seeking CONCACAF presidency

FIFA vice-president Jeffery Webb was among the seven taken into custody, but Sepp Blatter is not involved, which was confirmed in a press conference held by the world football governing body a few hours after the news surfaced.

Backed by bookmakers Paddy Power, the Frenchman had launched a plan to stand against Sepp Blatter from standing for a fifth consecutive term earlier this month.

Richard Sherman was very unimpressed by McHale's joke about Sepp Blatter.

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Also missing from the 2002 election are former secretary - general Michel Zen - Ruffiman, whose dossier on corruption threatened to bring Blatter down, and Farra Ado, then - president of the Somali Football Federation, who claimed to have been offered $ 100,000 by officials working for Blatter's re-election.

The Swiss AG suspects Blatter of signing a contract with the Caribbean Football Union — headed up by Jack Warner — that he knew was unfavorable for FIFA.

Claims of a past relationship between former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Russian model Irina Shayk has been strongly rejected by the latter, Mirror Online reports.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter will surely face even more criticism after a poor attempt at condemning the racist attack by Chelsea fans on a man at the Paris Metro station last week.

A British comedian on Monday interrupted a press conference by Sepp Blatter in Zurich throwing paper money in front of the bemused FIFA president just...

Michel Platini claimed on Tuesday night that he was given # 1.3 million by Sepp Blatter nine years after finishing work for the Fifa president because the organisation could not afford to pay him in full at the time.

Even some of the Barcelona players have spoken out about the disrespect shown by Blatter in his mockery of Ronaldo, but FIFA seem immune to criticism.

Blatter has eliminated internal opposition and it is difficult to see who will foment a grass - roots revolt and be prepared to give up their place by the honeypot to do so.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he will seek to reinstate fired Egypt football federation leaders, calling their dismissal «direct interference» by the Cairo government.

By this time Platini had forged a close working relationship with the then FIFA general secretary Sepp Blatter.

The suspension, trimmed to six years by FIFA's own appeal committee, prevented Platini from standing for the FIFA presidency in succession to Blatter who was duly succeeded instead as the head of world football by Gianni Infantino, who had been Platini's general secretary at UEFA.

The is no treaty in existence that recognises «Korea DPR», which is, in fact, nothing more than a figment of Mr Blatter's imagination, designed to accommodate the hopeless denial and delusion of a communist pariah and the un-sporting refusal of the DPRK (itself un-recognised by one member of the UN Security Council) to acknowledge the existence of one of its potential WC opponents (and one who happens also to be one of its only two land neighbours).

«What happens after Friday if indeed Sepp Blatter is re-elected will need careful consideration, primarily by the FA... I shall certainly be seeing Greg Dyke very shortly to discuss the attitude of the FA.

Blatter was suspended for 90 days by FIFA on October 8 and then banned from the game for eight years last month for ethics violations over a # 1.35 m payment FIFA made to Michel Platini with Blatter's approval in 2011.

An imposing figure, with piercing blue eyes, his astuteness as a politician and his adeptness at retaining power enabled him to hold the Fifa presidency for 24 years until being succeeded by Blatter in 1998.

FIFA, world football's governing body is no stranger to controversy and ridicule, but even by Sepp Blatter's standards, this is ridiculous.

Blatter (pictured) has hired McGuireWoods chairman Richard Cullen to represent him in the corruption probe that so far has seen nine current and former FIFA officials indicted by the US authorities.

Led by FIFA President Sepp Blatter, it has found support from a number of influential figures, but it has also been condemned as unnecessary and incompatible with European legislation, not least by the European Commission (the Commission).

With Blatter seemingly on a personal crusade to have it introduced, and now officially backed by FIFA, this issue looks like it will run and run.