English Football Association chief, Greg Dyke, believes “the end” has come for embattled FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and his UEFA counterpart, Michel Platini.
The English football supremo doubts there is any way back for the suspended duo who faces a lengthy spell away from the game.
FIFA’s ethics committee on Monday handed an eight-year suspension to the pair over Blatter’s payment of £1.34 million to the Frenchman in 2011.
The duo said the amount was for work done by Platini between 1999 and 2002 for FIFA, but the ethics committee found otherwise.
While Blatter and Platini plan to appeal the sanction, Dyke feels their efforts will be in vain.
“For Blatter (to recover from the scandal)? Personally? No,” Dyke told BBC Radio 5 Live. “It’s interesting what he said. He just doesn’t separate himself from FIFA.
“He thinks he is the same thing, and that’s rather sad.
“I don’t think he will recover from this. He saw the attack on FIFA as an attack on him.”
Dyke added: “We took an early decision to support Mr Platini. We thought he had done a very good job with UEFA and we were clearly all very disappointed when all this came out.
“We didn’t know. I presume that he will now go to appeal as well, but I would think it is the end for both him and Blatter.”
