Platini defends Euro 2020 plan

UEFA President Michel Platini, responding to criticism from FIFA boss Sepp Blatter, claims that staging Euro 2020 in venues across the continent lends true meaning to the concept of a European championship.

Platini, in an interview to appear in Thursday's edition of L'Equipe, said: "A European championship of nations will never have been better named as for the first time it will be played across the entire European continent."

The all-embracing nature of Euro 2020 has come in for criticism, notably from world soccer head Blatter.