Blatter and Platini bans are undeserved - Mutko

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko believes Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini do not deserve the eight-year bans imposed upon them by FIFA's Independent Ethics Committee.

Criminal proceedings were opened against the FIFA president in September, with an alleged "disloyal" payment to the UEFA chief for consultancy work, which Blatter authorised in 2011, forming the basis of the investigation.

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