Fifa in crisis live blog – Blatter to face media amid Warner allegations | Jamie Jackson

• Warner makes claims against Sepp Blatter in Fifa scandal • Blatter in clear, Bin Hamman and Warner both suspended 11.04am: PA’s Martyn Ziegler reports on Twitter: FIFA secretary general, Jerome Valcke, confirms email he sent Warner suggesting the 2022 World Cup was “bought” was genuine. “It was a private email.” 11.04am: An independent Australian senator, Nick Xenophon, has stated his country should not spend on anymore World Cup bids until the Fifa sort their house out. He says: “You wonder whether we should continue to invest millions of dollars in bids for events we’ll never even be in the running to win. “Until the investigation into FIFA has has been completed, Australia must hold off spending any more taxpayers’ money on any future World Cup bids.” Oz’s bill for their doomed 2022 bid was around £30m. 10.50am: Warner has also said that 13 federations had written to the ethics committee, backing him up. Al Jazeera, the Qatari owned TV station, is reporting the news regarding Qatar’s Bin Hammam straight here . The order of play, as it were: • Yesterday , Sepp Blatter was cleared by Fifa’s ethics committee, while Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner was suspended. • Warner has begun to reveal his so-called “tsunami” of claims, starting with these : “I indicated that at the Miami Concacaf Congress on 3 May Mr Blatter made a gift of $1m to Concacaf to spend as it deems fit. This annoyed [Uefa] president Michel Platini who was present and he approached secretary general Jerome Valcke complaining that Mr Blatter had no permission from the finance committee to make this gift to which Jerome replied that he will find the money for Mr Blatter. “I also indicated … Fifa through Mr Blatter organised gifts of laptops and projectors to all members of the Caribbean and no objections have been made … to date.” • Starting this afternoon: Fifa’s executive committee meets in Zurich. • At 5pm there will be a Blatter media conference. Fifa Sepp Blatter Jack Warner Football politics Jamie Jackson guardian.co.uk

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