In addition to corruption allegations, Sepp Blatter has put the blame on Nicolas Sarkozy for forcing ex-Fifa vice-president Michel Platini to give the 2022 World Cup to Doha, Gulf news reported.

Blatter tweeted: “Bad news: Qatar accused of denigration of other bidders! Fact is Qatar won after a political intervention by the former French President Sarkozy to Fifa Vice President Platini. More information in my book, Ma Verite (My Truth) Chapter 10.”

The shady Qatar World Cup team has violated Fifa’s rules by deploying black operations to ruin opponents running to host the tournament, The Sunday Times reported.

Emails from a whistleblower show how the bid paid a public relations firm and former CIA agents to pump out fake propaganda about its main rivals, the United States and Australia, during its successful campaign to host the next World Cup.

The campaign involved recruiting influential people to attack the bids in their own countries, seeking to create the impression that there was “zero support” for the World Cup domestically.