Sepp Blatter Appeals To CAS Over Six-Year Suspension

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport against his six-year ban from football.

Blatter was initially banned for eight years by FIFA's ethics department over a 2011 payment to UEFA president Michel Platini. That was reduced to six years on appeal, but Blatter is still hoping to have the ban scrapped altogether and has now gone to sport's most powerful judicial body.

Platini has already appealed to CAS over his six-year ban, and the court's verdict could be delivered in May.