FIFA vice-president Issa Hayatou has labelled claims he received bribes to vote for Qatar s 2022 World Cup bid as ridiculous allegations .
Hayatou was named in an article by The Sunday Times on June 1 as one of the football officials that received gifts from former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohammed bin Hamman to vote for Qatar in 2010.
But the Cameroonian president of the Confederation Africaine de Football (CAF) denied categorically those claims in a statement on Sunday and revealed he had been given less than 24 hours to respond to The Sunday Times via email.
The email expressed fanciful allegations that Mr Hayatou would have received valuable gifts from Mr Bin Hammam and would have also been greatly pampered during a tour in Doha in December 2009…