In the end, Sepp Blatter tried to save himself: Michel Platini

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini

Zurich: Michel Platini has accused Sepp Blatter of making him "his last scalp" as FIFA president in the affair, which saw both banned from football.

Platini was UEFA president until December 2015 when he was banned from football for an initial eight years by FIFA's ethics committee due to a £1.3million payment made to him on the instruction of Blatter, who suffered the same fate. Both men had their bans reduced to six years and Platini's was later cut to four by the Court of Arbitration for Sport but it was enough to prevent him attending Euro 2016 in his native France. And regarding his former friend Blatter, Platini claimed in French newspaper Le Monde: "In the end, he tried to save his own skin. Blatter does not defend anyone else. He never defended me. He's the most selfish person I have seen in my life.

"He always said I would be his last scalp," Platini claimed. "I know he was fixated on me, to the end, ever since the ‘enough is enough' comment on May 28, 2015, even without considering the jealousy he had for the footballer I was," Platini added.