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		</div><p>Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter&#8217;s fate hangs in the balance as the Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing into his six-year ban gets under way on Thursday.</p>
<p>Blatter&#8217;s 18-year run at the head of world football&#8217;s governing body ended acrimoniously last December when he was banned from the sport for eight years, later reduced to six, by the FIFA ethics committee.</p>
<p>The 80-year-old Swiss and the then-UEFA president Michel Platini were originally handed eight-year bans for a £1.35million payment that Blatter made to his close ally in 2011.</p>
<p>Those bans were reduced to six years by a FIFA appeal panel in February, and Platini got a further two years knocked off his ban when he went to CAS in May.</p>
<p>But the CAS panel that heard Platini&#8217;s appeal backed the original FIFA decision that the payment, which was supposedly the balance Platini was owed for consultancy work he did between 1999 and 2002, was not legitimate.</p>
<p>Both men have strongly denied any wrongdoing, with Blatter, who has kept a low profile since leaving office, again defending himself on German television earlier in August.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am not corrupt. And if someone says it, let him prove it,&#8221; he told ZDF.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have made many mistakes. But I have done nothing wrong, at least what applies in criminal law.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blatter had long courted controversy before being removed from the position of president and has since been replaced by former UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino.</p>
<p>He will arrive for his CAS hearing in person after his spokesman confirmed Blatter would attend with his lawyer Lorenz Erni.</p>
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