• Warner claims ‘no such thing as coincidence’ over timing of announcement
• ‘Many and various acts of misconduct’ cited during time at Fifa and Concacaf
After 28 years as a Fifa executive,during which he was embroiled in a series of scandals, and four years since he quit the game, or world football’s crisis-hit governing body finally got around to banning Jack Warner for life on Tuesday.
The former long-standing Concacaf president and Fifa vice-president,battling extradition proceedings in Trinidad after being named among nine football officials indicted by the US Department of Justice over corruption claims, immediately claimed it was a plot to detract attention from Sepp Blatter’s own problems.
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Source: theguardian.com