A Paris court yesterday threw out an attempt by European members of Parliament to force a change in the distribution of World Cup tickets because they were not acting on their own behalf.
The Euro MPs have charged that the World Cup organising committee (CFO), world football body FIFA and the French Football Federation distributed the 2.5 million tickets in discriminatory fashion, benefiting French supporters to the detriment of non-French based fans.
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