08 September,2011 08:04 AM IST | | AFP
Disgraced Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam has claimed race was a factor in his lifetime ban from football over bribery charges.
"Were I a European, or were the Caribbean part of Europe, neither Sepp Blatter (FIFA president) nor Jerome Valcke (secretary general) will dare lay a finger on us," he stated in a letter to Petrus Damaseb, the deputy head of FIFA's ethics panel.
