Platini, not looking good.

Day -984. WorldCup2018‬.

This has more to do with Qatar 2022 but still a lot to do with the never ending mess at Fifa and the man everybody is unsure about, Michel Platini. The alleged facts are out there:

• Platini met with Mohammed Bin Hamman, a Qatari football official who stood against Blatter for the Fifa presidency in 2011, just before the vote on the awarding of the 2022 World Cup
• Bin Hamman was banned from football for life before the election
• Platini told the Uefa member associations that he would stand against Blatter in 2011. Soon after he changed his mind and endorsed Blatter.
• It emerged recently that Platini received a 2m Swiss Francs disloyal payment from Blatter in 2011, at around the time of the elections
• Platini was at an event hosted by President Sarkozy at his official residence where Platini met the son of the Emir of Qatar
• A year after the Qatar vote, Qatar Sports Investment bough Paris Saint Germain
• Platini's son became the chief executive of a Qatar owned sports company
• Platini voted for Qatar to be awarded the World Cup
• The Qatar bid was based on a summer world cup with "outdoor air-conditioned stadiums". This all changed when Fifa became concerned about the heat and it became a winter world cup
• This change had the most opposition from the European associations, as it affected their big money leagues
• But who is the head of the European associations, and actually said that he supports a switch to a winter world cup? Michel Platini.

And just to link this all back to Russia 2018, the Chairman of the Fifa 2018 organising committee is Platini. For a bit of now typically unintentional Fifa humour and irony he now has an asterisk by his name on the Fifa website: provisionally banned.

http://m.fifa.com/a…/committees/committee=1928613/index.html