No going back on World Cup votes, insists Blatter

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has ruled out revisiting the vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups after the world governing body's executive committee agreed unanimously that an "appropriate" form of the Garcia report should be published.

Blatter said "external legal experts" supported the view that "there are no legal grounds" to revoke the controversial vote in 2010 to award the World Cups to Russia and Qatar, said Blatter in a statement.

FIFA's executive committee agreed unanimously that an "appropriate" form of the report into World Cup bidding by Michael Garcia, the ethics investigator who resigned earlier this week, should be published but with names and other details removed.

Officials at a meeting in Morocco agreed to the proposal without a vote being taken - but nothing will be published until the ethics committee charges against three FIFA ExCo members - Angel Villar Llona of Spain, Belgium's Michel D'Hooghe and Thailand's Worawi Makudi - have been dealt with.

American lawyer Michael Garcia produced a 430-page report into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar respectively.

He quit on Wednesday as FIFA's ethics investigator after losing his appeal challenging the findings to clear Russia and Qatar to host the World Cups.

The FIFA ExCo was given a presentation by Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's audit and compliance committee, who suggested the report should be published in an "appropriate form" - with all names and other details redacted.

This was agreed to by the members without a vote - and avoided a vote on German member Theo Zwanziger's proposal to change the ethics code rules which would allow full and immediate publication.

Britain's FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce, from Northern Ireland, welcomed the move.

He told Press Association Sport: "I am pleased the FIFA executive commitee decided without a vote to publish this report.

"It shows that people at FIFA at the moment do desire transparency and the sooner we can get on with talking about the game of football that we all love, the better."

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