DISHEVELLED BLATTER AND HIS PLASTER FACE THE MUSIC
Blatter
looked disheveled as he got out of his chauffeur-driven car on Monday
morning, accompanied by his daughter, Corinne, and media spokesman
Thomas Renggli.
He was wearing a plaster beneath his right eye, thought to be because of the removal of a mole.
The 79-year-old was hospitalised in November after suffering what was described as a 'small emotional breakdown.'
'My brain and my heart are always fine, my body is letting me down,' he reportedly said.
He
said on Monday: 'I will not speak about my health (but) at a certain
time, on November 1, without the big help of the medical department, we
wouldn't be here.'
Sepp
Blatter, his face partially covered by a huge plaster, today claimed he
was being treated like a punchbag after he and Michel Platini were
banned from all football activities for eight years and fined by the FIFA adjudicatory ethics chamber.
The
decision, revealed in Zurich on Monday, brings a definitive end to
Blatter and Platini's control of the sport, while the Frenchman will be
unable to run for FIFA presidency on February 26.
The
bans have been imposed by FIFA's ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim
Eckert for a 'disloyal payment' of £1.35million (2million Swiss francs)
to Platini, signed off by Blatter in 2011.
A
dishevelled Blatter, sporting a large plaster after apparently having a
mole removed from his face, spoke at a packed news conference shortly
after the decision was made.
He
confirmed he will appeal to the Court of Arbitration in Sport,
insisting only the FIFA congress could remove him as president. He
blamed everyone but himself and insisted: 'I'll be back'.
'I
am really sorry. I am sorry that I am still somewhere a punching ball,'
he said. 'I am sorry that as president of FIFA, I am this punching
ball. I am sorry for football.'
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