FIFA's shameless squad: Hours after being freed from prison for 'exhaustion', suspect Jack Warner parties night away... as Blatter bleats scandal is revenge for UK and US losing World Cup bids

• Former FIFA vice president danced and wore a garland of flowers at party
• Offered bizarre defence against allegations in speech to whooping crowd
• He said: 'Why only people from Third World countries have been charged?'
• Rambling Blatter hints £100m corruption scandal is a Western conspiracy
• Bomb threat forces evacuation of delegates from FIFA congress meeting

By Simon Tomlinson and Charles Sale In Zurich and Adam Shergold for MailOnline

Dancing without a care in the world, shameless Jack Warner parties the night away – hours after being freed from prison in an ambulance suffering from apparent exhaustion.

The disgraced former FIFA vice president claimed he was too ill to face reporters outside the jail in Trinidad where he was being held on eight charges in the FBI corruption case.

But just hours later, he donned a celebratory garland of flowers and whipped a partisan crowd of political allies into a frenzy with an energetic and defiant speech professing his innocence.

'If I have been thiefing FIFA money for 30 years, who give me the money? How come he is not charged?' the 72-year-old declared.

'Why only persons from Third World countries have been charged?,' he added, drawing hoots and applause from supporters in the district he represents as an opposition member of Parliament.

Pictures of the rally emerged as FIFA president Sepp Blatter suggested the £100m corruption scandal was a Western conspiracy because the U.S. and England were not awarded the next two World Cups.

Warner later insisted that if he has been accused by U.S. prosecutors, then Blatter must also face charges.

He told BBC World Service: 'If I am supposed to be this corrupt person... he was my president for 24 years.

'I didn't push my hand in the till of FIFA. I'm not a FIFA treasurer. I didn't write cheques for FIFA. If I am corrupt, it must be someone else who had given me the money.

'If I am this corrupt person, he (Blatter) shouldn't be allowed to go free.'

In a rambling speech in Zurich, Blatter today claimed FIFA would not be at the centre of the FBI investigation if two other countries had been chosen for the next two World Cups.

He meant England for 2018 and USA for 2022 – a dig at the British media who have led the anti-Blatter agenda and the FBI, whose investigations led to seven arrests and 14 officials indicted on bribery and kick-back charges by the US Attorney.

Blatter said: 'They call into question the world Cups of 2018 and 2022. In December 2010, here in Zurich, when we decided on the two World Cups in one session.

'If two other countries had emerged from the envelopes, we would not have these problems today.

'But we can't go back in time, we are not prophets. We can't say what would have happened.'

Blatter also made another plea for team unity adding: 'Given the special circumstances and the storm that followed and the major discussions that came with them. My president's address will be different.

'I will address what has happened and look how we can go forward. We are going through troubled times.

'The events have thrown a shadow over FIFA but let us try to lift our spirits. We can't accept FIFA being dragged through the mud. But those found guilty are individuals not the organisation.

'These individuals have lost sight that this is a team sport which everybody must aim at the same goal.

'I am willing to accept FIFA is responsible but share the responsibility with the Exco committee which is our government.

'We are at a turning point. We need to pull together and move forward. We cannot constantly supervise everybody.

'We have more than 300million active participants and we have 1.6 billion people touched by our game.'

Blatter, who goes up against Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein in today's presidential election added: 'It is not good that all this emerged two days before the Congress.

'I'm not going to say coincidence but I do have a small question mark.

'There is no sporting event that has more fame than the World Cup especially with TV where billions watch. So let us be careful. The idea of us being a simple game. This is not a monster.

'Football and FIFA have become very important. And you the national associations are the shareholders and owners of this. But for this to work, there needs to be discipline.

'It's a matter of trust. Let us repair what has blown down. Let the boat go placidly into port'.