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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was the first to endorse Portuguese compatriot Luis Figo’s highly unlikely bid for the FIFA presidency. However, that support was not enough to stop Chelsea from cancelling a press conference at Stamford Bridge where Figo was due to launch his election manifesto. Instead the event took place at Wembley on Thursday. The Paris Metro racism row involving Chelsea fans would have put paid to Figo’s appearance there in any case, because racism questions would have overshadowed the event. But it emerged on Thursday that Chelsea called off Figo’s launch ahead of the Metro incident because the club wanted to stay apolitical and felt it ‘inappropriate’ to host a challenger to Sepp Blatter.

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FIFA’s in-house PR team will breach election rules if they promote Blatter’s bid for a fifth term — which they are in danger of doing until Blatter forms an independent campaign team.