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Sepp Blatter hospitalised
Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been hospitalised, after being placed under medical observation for stress, but he is expecting to leave the facility early next week, his spokesman said yesterday.
“He is now, at this moment, in hospital,” Blatter’s spokesman Klaus Stoehlker told AFP by phone. “He is preparing to leave on Monday and will be back on the job on Tuesday.”
Stoehlker added that 79-year-old Blatter had “regained his good humour” and has vowed to persist with “his fight against the (FIFA) ethics committee”, which suspended him for 90 days over corruption allegations.
Lancaster quits as England rugby coach
Stuart Lancaster has stood down as England coach after failing to make it out of the group stage of the World Cup.
England became the first host nation to be eliminated at the group stage when they lost matches to Wales and Australia in Pool A.
It was the first time an England side had failed to reach the knockout stages in their eight World Cup campaigns.
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