Long history of foot-in-mouth disease

It was the latest in a string of accusations which finally cost Jerome Valcke his role as FIFA No 2 - but the former loyal right-hand man of president Joseph Blatter has a history of making headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The 54-year-old Frenchman was suspended by world soccer's governing body on Thursday following newspaper reports implicating him in a scheme to sell thousands of tickets for the 2014 World Cup on the black market, allegations which he has denied as "fabricated and outrageous."

At the height of the corruption scandal which embroiled FIFA earlier this year, it was accusations against Valcke that led to Blatter's decision to resign just days after his re-election for a fifth term in office.