SEVEN FIFA fatcats who are accused of destroying England's World Cup bid are named and shamed by The Sun.
The executive committee members are said to have indicated to our bid team they could be relied on to pick England to host the 2018 championship just hours before the crucial vote.
The fatcats are:
- Vice president Jack Warner
- America's Chuck Blazer
- Guatemala's Rafael Salguero
- Korea's Chung Mong-Joon
- Cyprus's Marios Lefkaritis
- Turkey's Senes Erzik and
- Ivory Coast's Jacques Anouma
Each of the seven is said to have indicated their vote was in the bag. It is claimed Warner even put his arm around Wills and told him: "You can rely on me." But in the early hours of Thursday a team of FIFA delegates met with Russia's campaign team at a Zurich hotel.
And in a secret ballot at FIFA's Zurich HQ hours later, England got just two of the 22 votes - neither of which came from the seven. After a second round of voting, FIFA chief Sepp Blatter announced the 2018 World Cup would go to Russia.
The person I admire most in this whole fiasco is the acting head of English football Roger Burden who announced he is QUITTING because he refuses to deal with the stitch-up merchants of FIFA.
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