CONTROVERSIAL former football leader Jack Warner has effectively been banned from the game for life, a member of Fifa's ethics committee has said.
A leaked committee report said there was overwhelming evidence that Warner, who quit all football activities on Monday, was "an accessory to corruption".There was anger after Fifa then dropped the bribery investigation against its former vice president and said the 68-year-old was "presumed innocent".
Sondre Kaafjord, however, said the outcome was the same as a ban.
Mr Kaafjord, one of the five-man panel who provisionally suspended Warner and fellow Fifa member Mohamed Bin Hammam on bribery charges last month, said: "The result is the same as if he had been banned by us - he's out of football. If we had sentenced him or banned him the result would have been just the same.
"If Warner were to take part in football again, the case will be re-opened immediately."
He added: "We concluded on 29 May that there was enough reason to suspend him for 30 days. It means that there was a probability that he was guilty
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