U.K. press Fifa Coins reported that Gill walked out of a meeting of European soccer and FIFA officials, which had a clear impact on Blatter.
"I have had to deal with a number of blows, the indignities like what happened in the European meeting is something that I have never had to deal with," Blatter said.
Meanwhile, the former chairman of the FA, Lord Triesman, on Wednesday used parliamentary privilege in the U.K. to lambast FIFA and Blatter in particular.
"FIFA, I'm afraid, behaves like a mafia family. It has a decades-long tradition of bribes, bungs and corruption," he said during a debate in the House of Lords, according to Sky News. "Systematic corruption underpinned by non-existent investigations where most of the accused are exempt from the investigation make it impossible to proceed."
Blatter has lashed out at critics in recent weeks, even suggesting that "racism" is behind an attack on his tenure by U.K. newspapers that have been writing about the corruption allegations.
On Wednesday, Blatter appeared to suggest that politics may lie behind some of the criticism against Zurich-based FIFA. He said that FIFA is taking on a significant importance on the geopolitical map, which sometimes "creates controversial situations and then some difficulties." The sport tries to steer clear of politics, he said, www.proutcoins.com but "in this changing world very little is beyond the reach of politics and economics."
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