FA Chairman Greg Dyke calls for 'urgent action' from FIFA members to get ethics report published
Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has called for "urgent action" by FIFA members to ensure ethics investigator Michael Garcia's report into World Cup bidding is published in full.
Dyke has written to every FIFA executive committee member calling for them to back its publication. It follows Garcia's move to appeal against the decision by FIFA ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert to clear Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
Eckert has refused to publish the full report and Dyke states that public confidence in FIFA has hit a new low, while there is "compelling evidence" of wrongdoing.
Dyke's letter states: "As you probably know the reputation of FIFA was already low in England and much of Europe before the events of last week. The failure to publish Mr Garcia's report, and his statement that the summary report which was published contained 'numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations', has resulted in a further decline in public confidence of FIFA. We cannot go on like this.
"Complete transparency is required if the actions of all those who bid, including England 2018, are to be judged fairly."
It adds: "I know some of you believe that FIFA's reputation in England is the result of an obsession amongst the English media with FIFA and I know Mr Blatter sees their reports as an unfair attack on the organisation he leads.
"However, in England we see it differently. The reports...do provide compelling evidence of wrongdoing. They cannot be simply dismissed as 'racist' or 'an attack on FIFA' as Mr Blatter described them at the FIFA Congress in Brazil.
"Urgent action is needed if confidence in FIFA is to be rebuilt in England. The FA is of the view that this action should start with the full publication of Mr Garcia's report."