CONCACAF president Jack Warner said that the Liverpool striker's header should not have been allowed and that the referee's decision distorted the result for Trinidad & Tobago's Soca Warriors, but also used the opportunity to divert media attention from corruption allegations made against him.

"I do not know what will happen to him, if anything will happen to him, but what I do know is that he had decided what the result would be," Jack Warner said in a telephone interview with Trinidad and Tobago's 'Newsday'.

“The referee, in my view, was more concerned with the cash value of the England team which included Beckham, Wayne Rooney and so on... Which was well over £50 million, rather than doing a proper match,” Warner added.

Jack Warner is also an appointed advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, and the landlord of CONCACAF's building in the country. He was allegedly involved into wide-spread corruption within the FIFA organisation, and accused of accepting bribes for ensuring that the 35 Football Federations he controls vote for FIFA's president, Sepp Blatter, re-election.

His move to harshly criticise the referee was not only intended to support the Soca Warriors, but also to divert media attention from the corruption allegations made against him by the BBC's 'Panorama' programme by this publicity "stunt".

Jack Warner lives a lavish life in Trinidad & Tobago, with the country's youth struggling to learn football in primitive conditions, lacking even the basic infrastructure, despite several "football development" programs financed by FIFA.

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