FIFA's corruption crisis deepened after a dramatic announcement that vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam have been charged with offering bribes for votes.
The pair will face FIFA's ethics committee on Sunday where they will face long bans if the allegations – made by fellow executive committee member Chuck Blazer – are proved.
The crisis puts a big question mark over whether the FIFA presidential election between Sepp Blatter and Bin Hammam on Wednesday will go ahead.
Blazer, an American who is the general secretary of the CONCACAF federation of which Warner is president, has alleged that violations of FIFA's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner for Caribbean Football Union (CFU) associations in the Bahamas two weeks ago.
