Bin Hammam launches appeal

Former FIFA executive Mohamed Bin Hammam has called the decision to ban him for life “deeply flawed” but believes trying to clear his name may prove difficult in the face of “tactical games” from the governing body as he launched his formal appeal.

The Asian Football Confederation president was last month found guilty of charges that he attempted to bribe members of the Caribbean Football Union at a meeting on the FIFA presidential campaign trail in Trinidad in May.