THE Football Association refused to pull their support of Uefa president Michel Platini to take over Fifa yesterday, despite the 90-day suspension handed to him by Fifa’s ethics committee in the wake of the Swiss criminal investigation.

Outgoing president Sepp Blatter has also been suspended for the same duration, all but signalling the end of his 17-year tenure at the head of football’s world governing body.

And the suspension is also likely to end any chance Platini had had of taking over the reins at Fifa next year.