Casting a shadow: Blatter claims English football holds a vendetta against him

And in a third tussle with English football, Prince William, the president of the Football Association, helped to force Blatter into a climbdown over a ban on England players wearing Remembrance poppies.

Now, in an interview with Swiss newspaper Matin Dimanche, Blatter mocks the Football’s Coming Home theme which underpinned England’s staging of their last major international tournament, Euro ‘96, and which was an unspoken element in the 2018 bid.

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