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Blatter and Platini acquitted in Switzerland

THE INSIDER

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are innocent – but do not expect to see them strutting their stuff again on the world football stage. Their days in the sun as all-powerful presidents of FIFA and UEFA respectively are long gone.

Even the innocent verdicts from a Swiss criminal court in Bellinzona over the infamous matter of a 2m Swiss francs payment back in 2011 has not relieved the two old friends turned enemies of all the judicial clouds hanging over their heads. Nor will it make any difference whatsoever to

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