A 15-foot (five metre) effigy of suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter was burned as the centerpiece of Bonfire Night celebrations in the Southern England town of Edenbridge on Saturday.

Blatter, holding a football, the World Cup trophy and wads of cash, was burned alongside a Guy Fawkes effigy after being filled with newspaper, gunpowder, fireworks and covered in kerosene.

The British tradition of Bonfire Night commemorates the 1605 failure of Fawkes and his conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London.

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Each year on November 5th across Britain people set off fireworks and light bonfires in honour of "Guy Fawkes night".

Edenbridge, located 60 kilometres south of London, marks the occasion by selecting an infamous figure in the news to be burnt.

Previous effigies have included disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Blatter was given a 90-day ban from FIFA in October following a Swiss criminal case investigating financial misconduct at FIFA.

The criminal case focuses on whether Blatter misused FIFA money by making a US$2 million payment to UEFA President Michel Platini.

The 79-year-old was in hospital on Friday according, and according to his lawyer, has been diagnosed with stress.