Sepp Blatter tells court he is too ill to testify on first day of trial with Platini

Judges allow former Fifa head to make testimony on ThursdayBlatter and Platini deny unlawfully arranging payment in 2011

The trial of the former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the French football legend Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments ground to a halt on Wednesday when Blatter said he was too ill to testify.

Swiss prosecutors accuse the pair, once among football’s most powerful figures, of unlawfully arranging a payment of two million Swiss francs (£1.6m) in 2011. Blatter and Platini deny the charges. But Blatter, looking frail during the hearing at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, said he was unable to address the court due to chest pains.

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