Football

Sepp Blatter admits Fifa's dual World Cup process caused bid collusion

Two weeks before the vote that will decide the hosts of the 2018 and the 2022 World Cups, the Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted that collusion between rival bidders for the two tournaments is inevitable. The Fifa ethics committee said yesterday that it could not find "sufficient grounds" of collusion between Spain-Portugal's 2018 bid and Qatar's 2022 bid, said to have secured a bloc of seven votes by trading influence.

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Sepp Blatter admits Fifa's dual World Cup process caused bid collusion