Blatter lawyer: No evidence of "improper motivation" in Platini agreement

Sepp Blatter's lawyer Richard Cullen claims there is "no evidence of any improper motivation" in an agreement between FIFA and Michel Platini which resulted in the pair being banned from all football-related activities.

FIFA president Blatter and vice-president Platini were handed 90-day suspensions by the Ethics Commission in early October over a "disloyal payment" made to the Frenchman in 2011.

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