The Day of Reckoning is nearly here, say the 'Smoking Gun'

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They think it's all over ? It is now for Sepp who was President of the world ....'For a Day' !! ..

Well his day of reckoning is close at hand as Warner vows to release documents .. (June 4 2015)

Indicted former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has promised to release documents relating to the financial transactions of Sepp Blatter.

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has suggested he knows why Sepp Blatter resigned

Warner, who is the subject of an Interpol 'international wanted person' alert, claims he fears for his life after being named among 14 people included on the US Department of Justice's corruption charge sheet last week.

But he has pledged to release an "avalanche" of evidence relating to FIFA's financial transactions, including those of president Blatter, with him and the United National Congress, one of the parties in the current ruling coalition in Trinidad and Tobago.

"At the age of 73 I have no intention of allowing them to deprive me of my freedom," Warner, who denies any wrongdoing, said in a television address.

"I reasonably fear for my life. I have decided I will no longer keep secrets for them (the government).

"I have compiled a comprehensive series of documents, including cheques and corroborated statements, and have placed them in different and respected hands.

"These documents detail my knowledge in the following matters: the link between FIFA, its funding and me; the links between FIFA, its funding and the United National Congress.

"These documents also deal with my knowledge of certain transactions at FIFA including, but not limited to, its president Sepp Blatter.

"My lawyers, at my instruction, are making contact with law enforcement authorities both inside and outside Trinidad and Tobago in regards to the statements I have made."

Warner, who resigned from all football activity in 2011 amid bribery allegations, has a history of making grand statements after claiming "a football tsunami (of corruption allegations) that will shock" in the lead-up to the 2011 FIFA presidential elections.

He never delivered on that statement but with the net tightening on alleged FIFA corruption in the light of the evidence of Chuck Blazer, formerly a senior official with the CONCACAF confederation which represents North American, Central American and Caribbean nations, who has struck a plea bargain with the FBI, Warner insists this time there is no going back.

"Even if these approaches do not bear fruit my careful dissemination of the material there can be no reversal of the course of action I have now embarked upon," he added.

"I have effectively placed matters beyond my own reach and retracting them is now an impossibility, there can be no turning back.

"I have suffered derision, indignity and ridicule and have kept my mouth shut.

"Even in the face of taunts I have kept quiet fearing this day might come. I will do so no more."

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Fifa paid FAI after Thierry Henry handball, claims John Delaney

The Football Association of Ireland chief executive, John Delaney, has confirmed that he accepted a payment from Fifa after Thierry Henry’s handball in the 2010 World Cup qualifying play-offs ended their hopes of qualifying for the tournament in South Africa. Delaney said the payment, reported to be €5m, was made so the FAI would not pursue legal action.

Speaking to RTE, Delaney claimed the payment was “a very good and legitimate deal” for the FAI but due to a confidentiality agreement would not confirm the amount received.

“We felt we had a legal case against Fifa because of how the World Cup play-off hadn’t worked out for us with the Henry handball,” Delaney said. “Also the way [Sepp] Blatter behaved, if you remember on stage, having a snigger and having a laugh at us. That day when I went in, and I told him how I felt about him, there were some expletives used and we came to an agreement.

“That was a Thursday and on Monday the agreement was all signed and all done. It’s a very good agreement for the FAI and a very legitimate agreement for the FAI, but I’m bound by confidentiality for naming the figure.”

There was no indication given as to how the Fifa payment was distributed within the organisation.

The presenter, Ray D’Arcy, then asked Delaney to confirm whether the amount was €5m but the chief executive, who earns an annual salary of €360,000, refused to confirm nor deny.

“You’ve put a figure out there and fair play to you,” he added. “It was a payment to the association to not proceed with a legal case. In there they signed a confidentiality agreement where I can’t talk about the amount involved. You used a figure there, well done to you, but it was a very good and legitimate deal for the FAI.”

Henry handled the ball in the build-up to William Gallas’s extra-time equaliser for France in the play-off at the Stade de France, leading to the FAI requesting to be added to the World Cup as a 33rd team. That was swiftly rebuffed by Blatter but the manner in which the outgoing Fifa president rejected the proposal irked Delaney. “They have asked, very humbly ‘Can’t we be team No33 at the World Cup?’ They have asked for that, really,” Blatter said at the time, sniggering.

“In 2009 I called him an embarrassment to Fifa and to himself,” Delaney added. “He called me over about that, across the table like I am talking to you, with one or two expletives. He said: ‘No-one speaks to me like that’, and I said, ‘well I do’ and that was it.”

Delaney then categorically denied he has ever accepted a bribe, adding while laughing: “Not on my salary.” The chief executive’s pay has long been questioned in Ireland, especially considering the domestic champions earn a mere €100,000. “Look, I am paid to do a job and I know I’m paid very well,” he added. “I’m very happy in the job, if anybody come up to me and offered me a bribe, I’d say, because you offered me a bribe, you’re not getting anything.”

Delaney also referred to a bizarre recent encounter between Blatter and his partner which ended with the FAI chief executive asking the Swiss to “move on” and stop staring. “He met Emma, my partner, in Vienna recently. He stared at her for seven or eight seconds and he said: ‘I approve of your new girlfriend’. I asked him to move on, move on please.

“It was an extraordinary moment. He stared at her and I said ‘move on’ and he did.”