Sepp Blatter hangs on amid Fifa fall-out

The corruption charges engulfing soccer’s governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, Fifa president Sepp Blatter said yesterday, although he flatly rejected calls to resign over the scandal.

With Fifa facing the worst crisis in its 111-year history, Uefa boss Michel Platini said he had told Blatter to go “with tears in my eyes”, but the 79-year-old had refused.

“I said, ‘I’m asking you to leave, Fifa’s image is terrible.’ He said that he couldn’t leave all of a sudden,” said Platini, a French former international.