FA chief says mood for change makes it ‘difficult’ to back Michel Platini

The Football Association would find it “difficult” to support Michel Platini even if he is cleared by Fifa’s ethics committee this week over the €1.8m payment he received from the world governing body.

Platini is to boycott the ethics hearing after claiming his fate has already been decided to prevent him running for the Fifa presidency.

FA chief executive Martin Glenn said outstanding questions over the Platini payment — which the suspended Uefa president says was made in 2011 for work carried out more than nine years earlier on the basis of a verbal agreement with Sepp Blatter — would make it difficult to support the Frenchman even if he is cleared of all charges.