The British comedian John Oliver has paid for airtime on Trinidad television in order to ask the former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner to stand by his word and reveal what he knows about corruption inside world football’s governing body.
In a four-minute segment shown on TV6, Trinidad’s largest private broadcaster, on Tuesday night, Oliver called on Warner to “release everything” after the disgraced 72-year-old and former president Concacaf president used his own paid-for political broadcast on TV6 to claim he had proof of Fifa wrongdoing.
Warner’s broadcast was called The Gloves Are Off, leading to Oliver, who has been a staunch and witty critic of Fifa for some time, largely in his role as presenter of the US show Last Week Tonight, to call his The Mittens of Disapproval Are On.
“I’ve been looking through the indictment,” said Oliver – who is originally from the West Midlands – during his message to Warner, “good luck with that”.
