FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has made a scathing attack on the BBC Panorama programme examining the bidding to stage the 2018 World Cup. The furore follows an undercover investigation by The Sunday Times in October in which it was alleged that FIFA members Amos Adamu and Raynald Temarii asked for money in return for voting on World Cup hosting rights.
Warner, a government minister in Trinidad, is President of the Concacaf federation covering North, Central America and Carribean Association football, and could deliver three of the 22 FIFA executive member's votes to England. Stating that he still had to decide which way he would vote, spoke of his dissatisfaction with the Panorama investigation in a vehement e-mail to Press Association Sport.
"I am sure it's a personal vendetta. but it is sooooooooooo stupid... for it will have not effect on me personally or on anyone else in FIFA for that matter."
He has been invited to lunch in Zurich by Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the vote, and David Beckhammet him while opening a coaching clinic in Trinidad in September.
Sentences provided by The Daily Mail although rearranged by me to protect the innocent (what it does to the guilty, you decide.)
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