Michel Platini admits Fifa World Cup draw was rigged to favour France in 1998
Disgraced former head of UEFA Michel Platini has sensationally admitted to a "little skulduggery" in rigging the draw to ensure Brazil and France could not meet until the final of the 1998 World Cup, where he was organising committee president. "We organised the schedule so if we finished first in our group and Brazil first in theirs, the teams could not meet before the final," France great Platini told Radio Bleu Sport in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, highlights of which the station tweeted on Friday. The revelation comes at a time when Platini is banned from football for receiving a "disloyal payment" of Sf2m when he was head of UEFA, from disgraced former Fifa president Sepp Blatter. The draw took place in Marseille on December 4 1997 and was presided over by Fifa’s then general secretary,: Blatter. "Look, we were at home, you have to make the most of things, we weren’t going to go through the bother of six years organising the World Cup if we could not pull off a few l...
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