10:07
Enter Blatter
I should warn you about flashing images above.
Blatter is introduced as the 'elected Fifa president'. Ha!
Sepp Blatter spent nearly eight hours before the governing body?s ethics committee
"To say this is a good day for me would be entirely wrong," he says rather unnecessarily. He talks about when he was last in this room (the old Fifa offices) and says Nelson Mandela was there, to welcome the award of the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.
He references Mandela and says he was a great humanist.
So 'elected Fifa president' and now 'Mandela'. He's using all his weapons. His daughter is sitting next to him.
09:58
Reaction to the bans
From a member of the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport, Damian Collins.
Mr Collins, who is also the MP for Folkstone and Hythe, said on Sky Sports News: "We know how rotten the head of Fifa was. We now have to find out just how much of the organisation has been affected.
"They've outlined changes they want to put to Fifa congress in February. A lot of the changes are a step in the right direction. But there has to be proper independent scrutiny.
"(They have to) stop the president of Fifa holding the sort of power that Sepp Blatter held in the past, where you have a small elite group of people, with very little scrutiny in what they do, involved in all decisions.
"That's been the problem with Fifa and it needs widespread reform; it needs an independent audit commission to lead that."
On the possibility of an appeal from Blatter he said: "There's no point. It's quite clear the payment to Michel Platini - without a contract; it was delayed for eight years and paid just before FIFA elections - that was clearly a conflict of interest.
"I don't really think he's got a leg to stand on."
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