Football: Warner accuses FIFA of Zionism and racism

Former president of world governing body warns of further revelations.

PORT OF SPAIN: Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has accused football’s world governing body of racism, Zionism and discrimination against non-Europeans.

Warner claimed that he will reveal more after the resolution of Mohamed bin Hammam’s case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

“I’ll talk about the racism within Fifa,” Warner wrote in a letter to the Trinidad Guardian. “I’ll talk about the Zionism, which is the most important reason why this acrid attack on bin Hammam and me was mounted.

Warner also vowed to uncover a ‘conspiracy to protect Fifa’s throne for Michel Platini, who is Uefa president.

“Is it that people of colour can’t administer football? Or is it that only Europeans possess the skill to do so?”

Warner threatened a “tsunami” of revelations that would target Fifa President Sepp Blatter. “I’ll discuss the litany of broken promises made to me by Blatter. All the ‘gifts’ that Blatter gave to secure his two elections will turn stomachs inside out.” 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2011.