• Blatter claimed agreement was made for the event to go to Russia[br]• Greg Dyke suggested final week FA would like to recover cost of bidThe Football organization has written to Fifa demanding answers to “important questions”,following Sepp Blatter’s revelation that a deal had been fixed to hand Russia the 2018 World Cup before the vote.
The FA spent £21m on England’s tender for the tournament but the outgoing president claimed final month that an agreement had been made by senior figures in the organisation for the event to go to Russia. In the vote in December 2010, England secured only one vote apart from its own and Russia won easily.
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Source: theguardian.com