Platini claims he will be vindicated despite 'clowns' at CAS and FIFA

Ex-UEFA president Michel Platini has attacked the "clowns" and "worthless judges" who have banned him from football and told a French magazine that he will eventually be cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

Platini and former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter were banned for eight years by FIFA's ethics committee in December 2015, although a FIFA appeal body reduced that to six years, for a "disloyal payment" of £1.5million paid by Blatter to Platini.