Mohamed Bin Hammam will take his battle against a lifetime ban for bribery to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after losing an appeal against the punishment.

Sepp Blatter tonight admitted FIFA faced “difficulties” but insisted: “Crisis? What crisis?”

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”.