• Bans from all football-related activity reduced from eight years
• Fifa appeal committee throws out Blatter’s and Platini’s appealsFifa’s call for its members to embrace reform as Friday’s presidential election looms has been undermined by its own appeal committee, which has reduced bans for Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini because of their “services to football”.
The Fifa appeal committee ruled that the bans handed down to the pair by the ethics committee in December over a £1.3m “disloyal payment” from the disgraced Fifa president to the Frenchman were too onerous and should be reduced from eight years to six years.
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Source: theguardian.com