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It’s that time of the day when I draw the curtain on this live blog and direct you over in this direction to the new one.

Before you go, a summary:

Fifa and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) are under pressure to explain why a payment of €5m (£3.67m) was made by the governing body in return for Ireland dropping legal action over the Thierry Henry handball that prevented the country reaching the World Cup finals in 2010.

handball that prevented the country reaching the World Cup finals in 2010. A press conference with Roy Keane , Ireland’s assistant manager, is scheduled for 11am BST (8pm AEST, 6am ET) today.

, Ireland’s assistant manager, is scheduled for 11am BST (8pm AEST, 6am ET) today. Northern Ireland’s Jim Boyce, who retired as a Fifa vice-president last week, called for an investigation, saying:

I’m absolutely astounded. I have never heard anything as ridiculous in my life. If a payment of $5m has been paid because of a handball and threatened legal action, then I hope a full investigation will be carried out into this and any other such arbitrary payments.

Jim Boyce bids farewell to Fifa and Sep Blatter at Fifa congress in Zurich last week. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/FIFA via Getty Images

The FBI’s investigation into Fifa corruption has further broadenedto include the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

Canada, host of the women’s World Cup, which starts tomorrow,has said no bribes were paid or received in its bid to host the tournament. (A reminder: just two countries – Canada and Zimbabwe – applied to host the tournament, and Zimbabwe later withdrew its bid.)

Canada’s FA chairman, Victor Montagliani, also said that Jeffrey Webb, the arrested head of Concacaf, had done a lot of good for the game, and lambasted the media:

With all due respect, you and your colleagues were saying the exact same thing. So you need to maybe look in the mirror a bit and maybe not put people on the pedestal so that you can whack the hell out of them after.



South Korea’s Chung Mong-joon says he will meet Uefa’s Michel Platini and other leading football figures in Berlin at the Champions League final, as he weighs up a bid to replace Sepp Blatter as president of Fifa.

says he will meet Uefa’s and other leading football figures in Berlin at the Champions League final, as he weighs up a bid to replace as president of Fifa. Keeping good on his vow to be quiet no more, Warner haspublished an edition of his very own newspaper, Sunshine, which lambasts the US investigation, mocks media who were “outfoxed” after he was released from prison with “exhaustion” and runs a lengthy column entitled: In Defence of Jack Warner. (See more choice screengrabs here and the whole thing here. Warning: contains a lot of Jack Warner.)

Jack Warner’s Sunshine newspaper on Fifa allegations. Photograph: Sunshine/screengrab

And a final check on Sepp Blatter’s progress in sorting out this whole jolly awful mess – yep, all in hand:

Joseph S Blatter (@SeppBlatter) Working hard on reforms after meeting Audit & Compliance Committee Independent Chairman Scala http://t.co/PQzpewvQz6 pic.twitter.com/FDPQeyFFNT

Thanks for reading – do come over to the new live blog, where you’ll see this summary again PLUS plenty of new stuff.