Football: ‘FIFA gifted TV rights for $1’

LONDON: Former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner said he was sold the World Cup television rights for Trinidad and Tobago for $1 in return for supporting Sepp Blatter in elections. Warner, who resigned from all his positions in June after he was suspended by Fifa following allegations in a cash-for-votes scandal, issued a statement revealing the details of the television deals. A Fifa spokesperson said that the governing body was ‘looking into’ the claims.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 31^st, 2011.