Blatter remains defiant ahead of FIFA Ethics Committee hearing
Sepp Blatter has written to FIFA's member associations to tell them nothing can stop him from clearing his name.
The organisation's suspended president goes before its Ethics Committee on Thursday as he and UEFA boss Michel Platini answer charges over a £1.3m payment made to Platini in 2011.
The adjudicatory chamber of the Ethics Committee has the power to ban both men from football for life, and a decision is expected next week.
But Blatter maintains his innocence, a position outlined in letters to all 209 member associations ahead of his hearing.
In the letters the 79-year-old says he plans to look ethics judge Hans Joachim Eckert in the eye and ask him, "Why are you trying to destroy me?"
And Blatter has promised to carry on the fight to clear his name whatever the outcome, saying: "Nothing and nobody can stop me."
