Ever since Qatar world cup controversy hit the headlines, trust in FIFA’s top management decisions has touched a new low and to win this lost confidence back, many executive members have long been asking to release all the materialistic facts about the controversial bidding in public, but for some reasons, neither FIFA nor Qatar has yet put anything in public domain. Recently, when ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert cleared both Qatar as well Russia for any irregularity it only got a silent support from its own members and like expected most of the members kept discussing about the wrongdoings in private. To make thing public, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has now written every executive committee member for their support for an urgent action over both upcoming world cups in 2018 and 2022, especially about how they could win the hosting rights. Despite severe pressure from every corner, Eckert refused to public the full report about the findings of a secrete investigation conducted by the governing body.
Refusing to accept what ethics committee judge has to say about the report, Dyke says he has rather compelling evidence for wrong doings in the bidding process that allowed both Qatar and Russia win the world cup rights despite having completely opposite infrastructure as well climate conditions. What Dyke said in his letter is, “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. 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.”