@Kolyo,
I don't use the s word. Thanks, and to Roger for putting this thread back up. There's been a further4 development, FIFA are now on the backfoot and have been forced to publish the report in full. More at link.
Quote:A plan for England to play a friendly in Thailand to win backing for their 2018 World Cup bid was "a form of bribery", investigators were told.
Ex-Football Association chairman Geoff Thompson made the admission when interviewed during an inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting bids.
On Tuesday, football's world governing body Fifa released the full 2014 report of the investigation.
That followed leaked extracts being published by German newspaper Bild.
The 422-page report was written by former Fifa independent ethics investigator Michael Garcia.
He quit in protest when the organisation only released a 42-page summary of his document.
That version cleared Russia and Qatar, winners of the 2018 and 2022 hosting rights respectively, of corruption allegations.
However, it was critical of the actions of some Fifa executive committee members and some of the bidding teams, including England's.
The full report goes into more detail about this conduct, and also cites an interview given by the 2018 England World Cup bid chief Thompson around the national team's plans to travel to Thailand to secure a vote for their bid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40422817
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