FIFA: English FA still supports Michel Platini, despite "issues which do need to be fully examined"

"In July, The FA Board decided unanimously to support Michel Platini if he intended to stand for the Presidency of FIFA. We did so because we thought he was an excellent President of UEFA and could bring those same leadership qualities to FIFA. We are still of that view," stated the English Football Association on 30/09/2015.

Swiss justice opened a criminal case against Joseph Blatter, the FIFA president, suspected of "criminal mismanagement and, alternatively, misappropriation", on 25/09/2015. "Additionally, Mr. Joseph Blatter is suspected of a disloyal payment of 2m Swiss Francs (€1.54m at the time of the payment) to Michel Platini, UEFA president, at the expense of FIFA, which was allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002 ; this payment was executed in February 2011," said a statement from the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland on 25/09/2015.

Michel Platini reiterated, on 29/09/2015, his desire to be a candidate to succeed Joseph Blatter at the extraordinary FIFA Congress to be held in Zurich (SUI) on 26/02/2016. "However, events of recent…