Bullish Bin Hammam vows to clear his name

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.

The Asian Football Confederation president began the fight to clear his name in Zurich at the start of a two-day hearing convened to look into claims that he attempted to bribe members of the Caribbean Football Union at a meeting on the FIFA presidency campaign trail in Trinidad in May.