Fifa president Blatter faces 90-day suspension

Sepp Blatter has been told he is facing a 90-day provisional suspension from FIFA’s ethics committee – a move which wound finally spell the end of his time as Fifa president.

Fifa’s ethics committee has been meeting this week to discuss whether Blatter and Michel Platini should be provisionally suspended. It is understood the investigatory arm has recommended a 90-day suspension for Blatter but that the German adjudicatory judge Joachim Eckert has yet to make a final decision.