Intro:

The UEFA Euro 2020 hosts announcement ceremony took place on Friday (19 September) in Geneva, and was followed by a press conference where UEFA president Michel Platini and English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke commented on the venue choices, and the hot topic of accepting World Cup luxury watches.

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (French) Michel Platini, UEFA president, on receiving an expensive watch during the last World Cup in Brazil:

"I was surprised on one hand by the value of the watch. Secondly, I was surprised the communications of FIFA. I think the best would have been to pass us a call and tell us: "Look, the ethics committee is not very happy"… but if the ethics committee wasn't happy, she had to tell about it four months ago, in Brazil, at the time we received the watches. FIFA knew we had received watches, as everyone received some. So, how come, because there is a report in a British newspaper, the FIFA says suddenly you have to give the watches back? Here is something that surprises me in the way this is made. This really doesn't please me at all.

SOUNDBITE: (French) Michel Platini, UEFA president, on receiving an expensive watch during the last World Cup in Brazil:

"I'm going to ask for the value of the watch and give the corresponding price to a charity. But I'm not going to give it back, I'm sorry,"

SOUNDBITE: (English) Greg Dyke, English FA chairman, on the same topic:

"Well my Swiss watch was in a bag in my study along with a lot of other things where normally I give them away to various charities or my kids. I said to my kids 'anyone want some of the stuff in here' and they all said 'no.' I think if they had thought it was worth £16,000 (($26,600) it might have been different. Look, seriously, none of us knew. As you say you get given watches. This watch, the watch I wear cost me £17 ($28 US dollars) at the airport a few years ago. I am not interested in watches so I have no idea at all this thing was immensely valuable. As I say it is sitting in a bag in my study. Well, now, I will send it back because I don't think people should go around giving presents of that sort of value."