Michel Platini tells Sir Dave Richards apology never arrived Richards ranted last week that Uefa and Fifa had "stolen football" from England. The following day Richards was embarrassingly forced into a series of contrite interviews in which he said he had written to both the Fifa and Uefa presidents. But Platini said on Thursday: "I read in an English media outlet he was going to send an email - maybe the email got lost in the corridors of Uefa but I never saw it. He said football was stolen from England and that a gang has done this. We are not a gang at Uefa and the English are so generous they have given football to the entire planet. One outcome of that legacy has been Britain's permanent seat on Fifa's executive committee, under which one of the home unions always sits on the committee by rotation. But Football Association general secretary Alex Horne yesterday hinted it would be surrendered. If you look at it objectively the vice-presidency is quite anachronistic and I wouldn't fight tooth and nail to keep it. If we give it up in the right way there will be a little bit of goodwill, and it could mean an extra Uefa seat [on Fifa's executive committee].