accuse the disciplinary judges of not understanding their own rules. you know, they were personally quite almost intemperate statements in response. so they obviously feel very hard done by. i want to ask you, keir, if the suspensions hold, meantime, whose running fifa and how does fifa begin to repair or operate as the world body in the midst of all of this? would this give them some sort of breather to try to restore some integrity? well, at the moment, fifa is sort of flat lining. under the rules, the senior vice president is the head of the african confederation from cameroon has taken over as interim president. he insists he doesn t want the job full-time. fifa itself in terms of the day-to-day operations is just carrying on. i mean football all around the world is continuing. people are going out to play
slapped with the same suspensions. let s talk with keir rodnidge. were these suspensions expected? well, they were expected from the previous day when we learned that the invest congratulations going on. no one can quite believe in essence the three top men in world football administration would all be put on gardening leave for three months at the same time. and do you think any of them will try and fight it, or is it a done deal? well, i think blatter and platini will fight it, certainly. voelk may, i don t know. platini is the most defiant of the statements in response. blatter s lawyers also also