Sepp Blatter: Fifa charges like ‘The Inquisition’

Sepp Blatter has written to Fifa’s 209 member associations protesting his innocence and criticising Fifa’s ethics committee for being “tendentious and dangerous” ahead of disciplinary hearings later this week.

The 79-year-old outgoing Fifa president also claims the proceedings against him have been “like The Inquisition”.

Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini will have hearings before Fifa ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert tomorrow and Friday in Zurich over a €1.8m payment made to Platini by Fifa in 2011.