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20 July 2015

Watch: Outgoing Fifa boss Sepp Blatter has money thrown at him in protest

Sepp Blatter gets ambushed with a cloud of cash during a press conference prank.

By Media Mole

(Photo By )

Comedian Lee Nelson threw a pile of banknotes at Sepp Blatter, interrupting the soon to be ex-Fifa president’s press conference.

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