Tuesday 18 November 2014 00:06, UK
Greg Dyke has written to every FIFA Executive Committee (ExCo) member calling for "urgent action" to ensure Michael Garcia's report into World Cup bidding is published in full.
The FA chairman’s decision comes after Garcia – a FIFA investigator – appealed against the decision by Judge Hans-Joachim Eckert to clear Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, having found no serious breaches of bidding rules by either nation.
Judge Eckert's findings also criticised England 2018 for its relationship with disgraced former FIFA executive member Jack Warner.
However, Eckert has refused to publish the full report – a move blasted by Garcia who labelled the abridged version as containing “numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts”.
In his letter, Dyke states public confidence in FIFA has hit a new low, while there is "compelling evidence" of wrongdoing.
"As you probably know the reputation of FIFA was already low in England and much of Europe before the events of last week," he wrote.
"The failure to publish Mr Garcia's report… 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."
The failure to publish Mr Garcia's report… has resulted in a further decline in public confidence of FIFA. We cannot go on like this.
Dyke adds that critical media reports about FIFA and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar cannot be dismissed in the same way that FIFA president Sepp Blatter did in June.
"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."
