BLATTER TAKES FIFA 6 YEARS BAN APPEAL TO COURT OF ARBITEATION FOR SPORT

Ousted FIFA president Sepp Blatter has taken his appeal against his six-year ban from football-related activity to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in an effort to have the sanction revoked.
The suspensions were each reduced from eight to six years, with their services to football a mitigating factor, but Platini took his case to CAS and Blatter has -- as promised -- followed suit.
"Joseph S Blatter has filed an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the decision issued by the FIFA Appeal Committee on February 16, 2016," a CAS statement read.
"In his appeal to the CAS, Mr Blatter seeks the annulment of the decision taken by the FIFA appeal committee in which he was suspended from all football-related activities at national and international level for six years.
"A CAS arbitration procedure is in progress. First, the parties will exchange written submissions and a panel of three arbitrators will be constituted.
"The panel will then issue directions with respect to the holding of a hearing. Following the hearing, the panel will deliberate and at a later date, it will issue a decision in the form of an arbitral award."