Friday 14 November 2014 19:31, UK
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore believes the criticism of England is “grossly unfair” in the FIFA ethics investigation into World Cup bidding.
FIFA have faced repeated calls for them to publish the full report by investigator Michael Garcia, who is appealing the decision by German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert to clear Qatar and Russia to host the 2022 and 2018 World Cups.
Eckert decided there was no need for the bidding process to be re-run and instead criticised England 2018 for its relationship with disgraced former FIFA executive member Jack Warner.
Scudamore has echoed calls for the full investigation to be revealed and told Sky Sports News HQ: "It tells you a little bit about international football politics that the people who were singled out for most criticism in the report were the English. I think that's probably grossly unfair.
"It is really unfair to pick on the English, but clearly the whole process has not been great and we need to somehow get the way these things are done changed for the future."
FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne earlier admitted there would be no ‘closure’ on the issue until the full facts are known and Scudamore agreed with this stance.
He said "The Garcia report should be out there in full, it's the only way that we are in any way going to be able to move on really. If there is a report that has been done by an eminent investigator, really that report should be published in full so that we can all see it."
Scudamore was attending an Ypres Christmas Truce Qualifying competition, with under-12 teams from all 20 Premier League clubs taking part in a weekend of football and education.
