Fifa corruption scandal live: England 'could host 2022 World Cup if asked' as Jack Warner issues Sepp Blatter 'avalanche of secrets' warning
UK Culture Secretary says England has facilities in place to supplant Qatar
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• England 'could host 2022 World Cup', government says
• Former Fifa official Warner 'fears for his life'
• Marta: Next Fifa president 'could be a woman'
• David Beckham hits out a 'despicable' Fifa corruption
• Chuck Blazer exposes bribery in explosive testimony
• FBI probing how Russia and Qatar were awarded World Cups
• South Africa gives press conference denying bribe
• Interpol issues wanted person alerts for former Fifa officials
• FBI confirms that it is investigating Blatter
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Last night the FBI’s key informant Chuck Blazer laid bare the decades-long schemes of bribery and back-handers that stretch all the way from France 1998 to South Africa 2010 and, probably, beyond.
In forty pages of explosive testimony, the corrupt American football official Chuck Blazer admitted “accepting bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as host of the 2010 World Cup” and also to “facilitating the acceptance of a bribe in conjunction with the selection of the host nation for the 1998 World Cup.”
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