If you still had doubts about how legal World Cup or UEFA Champions League draws were, Michel Platini came out and spilled the beans.
In an excerpt from an interview with French radio station "France Bleu", Platini admitted that the 1998 World Cup Committee tampered with the result of the draw, in order to guarantee a final between France and Brazil.
In order for this to work, both National Teams needed to win their respective groups, which eventually happened.
"A final between France and Brazil was everyone's dream. We made sure they followed a path to the final without crossing with each other until that date, by placing Brazil in Group A and drawing France in Group C," the former UEFA exec revelaed.
"We didn't spend six years of our lives working in the World Cup Committee to have things not going our way. You think everyone else didn't do the same thing?" Platini added.
Platini was banned from any football-related activity a couple of years ago, due to an "unloyal" payment" made by Blatter to one of his accounts. He is yet to serve five years out of his original eight-year sentence.
