Breaking News!!!! Issa Hayatou Becomes Fifa President

Following the suspension of Sepp Blatter from FIFA, CAF President Issa Hayatou is to become acting president of Fifa.

Blatter’s controversial 17-year reign was all but ended on Thursday when Fifa’s ethics committee suspended him pending a criminal investigation into allegations the Swiss mis-sold a World Cup TV rights contract to the disgraced former Fifa official Jack Warner in 2006 and made a “disloyal payment” of £1.3m to Michel Platini in 2011.  Along with Blatter, the Uefa president, Platini, who was the favourite to succeed his mentor until he too become embroiled in corruption allegations which he denies, has been handed an identical sanction, dealing a huge blow to his presidential ambitions.

Fifa has now released a statement confirming that Hayatou would be the one to lead Fifa over the next 90 days: “Issa Hayatou, as the longest-serving vice-president on Fifa’s executive committee, will serve as acting president of Fifa”.

Hayatou, 69, who in 2002 ran against Blatter for the Fifa presidency also put out a statement saying: “I will serve only on an interim basis. A new president will be chosen by the extraordinary congress on 26 February 2016. I myself will not be a candidate for that position”.