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Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has vowed to release an “avalanche” of secrets providing a link between the football governing body and Trinidad and Tobago’s elections in 2010.

Warner was among 14 officials indicted on bribery charges by American authorities. Interpol had issued a “Red Notice” against his name on Wednesday. He claimed in a television address on Wednesday that he would reveal all the secret information.

“I will no longer keep secrets for them who actively seek to destroy the country,” the 72-year-old said in his address titled “The gloves are off”, on Wednesday.

Warner said he possesses documents of FIFA’s financial dealings and evidence linking the governing body with the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago government elections.

Warner also said he fears for his life but it wouldn’t stop him from revealing the information.

“Not even death will stop the avalanche that is coming,” he said.

“The die is cast. There can be no turning back. Let the chips fall where they fall.”

Speaking about outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter, who resigned on Tuesday, Warner said: “Blatter knows why he fell. And if anyone else knows, I do.”

Blatter has denied any wrongdoing.

Former FIFA executive Chuck Blazer admitted on Wednesday that he and others took bribes when deciding on the host nations for the 2010 and 1998 World Cups.

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They call Afghanistan the graveyard of empires, but history may judge Qatar to have been Sepp Blatter’s fatal act of expansion.

In awarding the 2022 tournament to the tiny desert kingdom, his Fifa might be argued finally to have strategically overreached itself. For those more comfortable with conspiracies than complexities, that picture of Blatter holding the open envelope to reveal the word “QATAR” will be forever read as a come-and-get-me plea to the US authorities, America having been among the disappointed World Cup bidders.

Was that when it went ineluctably tits up, if you’ll forgive the reliance on one of Edward Gibbon’s stock phrases? It’s certainly pretty to think so – which is to say, miles too glib. But one thing on which we might all agree on is how astonishingly quickly empires can fall when they do. By way of a consolation sop to Blatter’s vanity, let’s stick the outgoing Fifa president on a par with the Ming Dynasty, which ruled for 276 years and collapsed in barely a decade.

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