Warner suspicious of lifetime ban timing

Disgraced former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has claimed there is no coincidence that his lifetime ban has been announced at the same time that Sepp Blatter is engulfed by a storm of controversy.

More than four years after quitting Fifa, Warner has found himself banned from football for life by the association’s ethics committee and described as a “key player” involved in illegal payments.

Warner has claimed there has been an attempt to distract from the investigations into Fifa president Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini, who are themselves under scrutiny from the ethics committee.