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Jack Warner issues FIFA tsunami warning
FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has predicted a “football tsunami” is about to strike the sport’s governing body.
The CONCACAF president, 68, faces an ethics hearing in soccer’s widening bribery scandal today.
Warner, who insists there was “not a single iota” of wrongdoing on his part, will answer questions at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters along with president Sepp Blatter and the man challenging the Swiss chief in next week’s election – Mohammed bin Hammam.
Warner said: “I tell you something, in the next couple days you will see a football tsunami that will hit FIFA and the world that will shock you.
“The time has come when I must stop playing dead so you’ll see it, it’s coming. Trust me you’ll see it by Monday.”
Warner features in a report handed to FIFA by Chuck Blazer, a fellow member of FIFA’s executive committee.
Blazer alleged possible ethics code violations at a meeting of Caribbean delegates which Bin Hammam and Warner attended in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on May 10 and 11.
In the next couple days you will see a football tsunami that will hit FIFA
Bin Hammam denies the claims and said they were part of a growing conspiracy to stop him becoming president.
Blatter simply said the facts would speak for themselves.