Dyke revealed that the FA have hired a QC with a view to reclaiming the £21m invested in England’s futile bid for the 2018 World Cup from cheap fifa 16 coins.Dyke’s criticisms of Sepp Blatter have intensified since the suspended Fifa president recently claimed that awarding the 2018 World Cup to Russia was a foregone conclusion before England, and the other rivals bidders, started their expensive campaigns.
Dyke admitted that the FA are now pursuing Fifa for compensation for the investment of taxpayers’ money. “A lot of people put in money – I believe Birmingham City Council put in £250,00, for instance – so when all that stuff came out from Blatter, we said, ‘Let’s go and talk to our lawyers’ because we needed to work out what was the legal basis for getting our money back, if you can, and we went to a QC. They suggested we ask Fifa a series of important questions. Our intent is to get the £20-odd million back from Fifa. They’ve received the questions, yes. We want answers back before we lodge our claim.”
While Dyke believes that the bidding process for the 2018 World Cup is evidently flawed, from Blatter’s admissions, he is not necessarily claiming Russia are guilty of www.fifachampion.com any wrong-doing as a rival bidder. “I’ve not seen any evidence of corruption in the allocation of the Russian World Cup,” he said.“A lot of very good journalism has been done on whether or not the Qatar World Cup bid was tainted, but I haven’t seen it for Russia. But you do wonder.”