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Disgraced ex-FIFA vice-president Jack Warner: 'I don't need any advice from any comedian fool'

ByPA Sport

Updated 12/06/2015 at 09:41 GMT

Jack Warner has hit back at British comedian John Oliver who hired airtime on Trinidad television.

Jack Warner has responded to comments made by comedian John Oliver

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Warner said Oliver, the presenter of US show Last Week Tonight, had embarrassed the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago in the four-minute comedy address. Warner also criticised CNN TV6, the Caribbean nation's largest private broadcaster, for giving him the platform.
"It is really incomprehensible how a local TV station, a national TV station, could allow a foreigner, most of all an American foreigner, to come into this country, to embarrass its citizens, to embarrass our people," Warner said on YouTube.
Warner is on bail in his homeland of Trinidad facing extradition to the United States after being one of the people indicted by American authorities over allegations of corruption.
The 72-year-old, who has denied any wrongdoing, promised in a broadcast titled 'The Gloves Are Off' earlier this month to release an ''avalanche'' of evidence relating to FIFA's financial transactions , including those of its departing president Sepp Blatter.
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Jack Warner

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"I don't need any advice from any comedian fool, who doesn't know anything about this country, to tell me what files to release and what not to release. That is none of his business, I take no instructions from him. And, worse yet, take instruction from an American at this point in time.
Warner, who resigned from all football activity in 2011 amid bribery allegations, also said that his country need to stand united against outsiders and that he intended to speak more at an ILP meeting on Friday.
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