Banned FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam has claimed FIFA would never have dared to take action against him if he were European.

Former FIFA executive Mohamed Bin Hammam has called the decision to ban him for life “deeply flawed” but believes trying to clear his name may prove difficult in the face of “tactical games” from the governing body as he launched his formal appeal.

FIFA have announced 16 officials from Caribbean associations have been charged with breaching rules on ethics in the wake of the bribery scandal that saw Mohamed Bin Hammam banned for life.

Mohamed Bin Hammam has claimed the cash given to members of the Caribbean Football Union during his campaign for the FIFA presidency was simply payment to cover their expenses as he launched a stinging attack on the governing body for his life ban.

FIFA executive committee member Mohamed bin Hammam has been banned from football for life after being found guilty of bribery by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Mohamed bin Hammam will find out today whether he has been found guilty of bribery allegations by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Mohamed bin Hammam issued a statement maintaining his innocence on the first day of FIFA’s ethics committee hearing into bribery allegations against him and insisted that justice will prevail.

Mohamed bin Hammam will fight for his future in football today when the FIFA ethics committee hearing into bribery allegations begins.

FIFA’s ethics committee will meet on July 22 and 23 to hear the case against Mohamed bin Hammam, who has been suspended on bribery charges.

FIFA’s ethics committee will meet on July 22 and 23 to hear the case against Mohamed bin Hammam, who has been suspended on bribery charges.

FIFA today faced calls to re-open the investigation into former vice-president Jack Warner after a secret ethics committee report labelled him “an accessory to corruption”.

THERE is “comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming” evidence that FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials during his presidential campaign and that Jack Warner was “an accessory to corruption”, according to a secret report by FIFA’s ethics committee.

There is “comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming” evidence that FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials during his presidential campaign and that Jack Warner was “an accessory to corruption”, according to a secret report by FIFA’s ethics committee.

FIFA have confirmed that Jack Warner will appear as a witness into the continuing investigation into bribery claims despite his resignation.

Jack Warner, the man at the centre of the FIFA bribery scandal, has resigned from all his positions in international football.

Investigators probing claims of bribery by senior FIFA members will carry out interviews of the remaining witnesses in the Bahamas.

One of the delegates invited to the meeting at the centre of FIFA bribery investigations has confirmed that he was given a brown envelope containing a “gift” of $40,000 (€28,000) in cash.

Suspended FIFA vice-president Jack Warner says he has no plans to meet investigators probing bribery allegations.

Chuck Blazer, the man who blew the whistle on an alleged bribery scandal, has dismissed claims of a FIFA/USA conspiracy, insisting: “The only things that were American in all this were the $100 bills.”

Mohamed Bin Hammam today wrote to FIFA to protest about his treatment at the hands of the organisation.

JACK WARNER last night unleashed his threatened “tsunami” on FIFA with allegations about the organisation’s president Sepp Blatter — and that FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke suggested the 2022 World Cup was “bought”.

Mohamed Bin Hammam arrived at FIFA’s headquarters today to face an ethics committee hearing on bribery charges, hours after withdrawing from the presidential election.

Sepp Blatter will appear before FIFA’s ethics committee on Sunday to answer charges that he knew about alleged cash payments, the world governing body announced today.

FIFA today faced calls to abandon next week’s presidential election after two of football’s most powerful figures were accused of handing over up to $40,000 (€28,000) in bribes to officials.

TWO of football’s most powerful figures have been accused of handing over bundles of US dollar bills in the most serious corruption crisis that FIFA have ever faced.

Mohamed Bin Hammam came out fighting today after being charged by FIFA with offering bribes for votes.

FIFA’s corruption crisis deepened today after a dramatic announcement that vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam have been charged with offering bribes for votes.

FIFA have opened an investigation into the conduct of four officials - including FIFA vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam – in relation to bribery allegations made by executive committee member Chuck Blazer, it was announced today.

None of Zimbabwe’s thousands of white farmers have been forcibly evicted after a deadline passed for them to get off their land last night.

Talks between white farmers and the Zimbabwean Government over President Robert Mugabe’s controversial land reform programme have collapsed without agreement.