Blatter was said to have spent the weekend since his election victory, following which he blamed attempts to oust him on bitterness from the Americans and English for losing their World Cup bids, listening to pleas to stand down from those closest to him.
Waterboarding sessions 'resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms' and 'hysterical pleas'.
· Addiction services failed to plan or implement appropriate care package and repeatedly ignored Stone's pleas for in-patient detoxification treatment.
The 63-year-old Methodist minister entered his guilty pleas at Leeds magistrates court on Wednesday.
The pleas for him to stand down, including by Fifa's head of reform, Domenico Scala, and Blatter's daughter Corinne, are said to have been framed to appeal to the 79-year-old's health and to some extent his vanity: that it was the only way he could still have some legacy recognised.
The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, alleged "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption", making it clear their investigation is in its early stages, despite six guilty pleas including Blazer's and the extraordinary bribery, fraud and money laundering charges in the indictment of 14 others.
Already there have been well-meaning pleas not to engage in the kind of behaviour England's volatile travelling minority shouldn't have been given the chance to engage in in the first place.
The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, and foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, said in a statement that "as a close friend and neighbour of Indonesia, Australia is deeply hurt that our pleas for mercy were ignored".
On Tuesday Abbott and Bishop began to show their dismay at the "ghastly episode" and what Australian officials see as Indonesia's dismissive attitude to their pleas, and the insensitive and heavy-handed treatment of the condemned men and their families.
The Django Unchained actor Daniele Watts and her boyfriend have entered not-guilty pleas over lewd conduct charges in relation to a highly publicised incident in which they accused a police officer of racial bias.
Previous pleas from politicians and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for the Network Rail remuneration committee to take into account poor performance have largely been ignored.
