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Greg Dyke calls for 'urgent action' on Michael Garcia's FIFA report

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Dyke slams FIFA report (1:36)

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has dismissed the report on corruption during the FIFA World Cup bidding process as 'a joke'. (1:36)

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has written to every FIFA executive committee member calling for "urgent action" to ensure that ethics investigator Michael Garcia's report into World Cup bidding is published in full.

Dyke's action follows Garcia's move to appeal against the decision by FIFA ethics committee judge Hans-Joachim Eckert to clear Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, having found no serious breaches of bidding rules by either nation.

Eckert's findings said there was no reason to rerun the bidding, and criticised the England 2018 bid for its relationship with disgraced former FIFA executive member Jack Warner.

But the German judge has refused to published the full report, and Dyke believes public confidence in FIFA has hit a new low, claiming there is "compelling evidence'' of wrongdoing.

His letter comes after his predecessor as FA chairman, David Bernstein, urged European nations to boycott the 2018 World Cup unless FIFA undergoes more reforms.

It states: "As you probably know, the reputation of FIFA was already low in England and much of Europe before the events of last week.

"The failure to publish Mr Garcia's report, and his statement that the summary report which was published contained 'numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations,' has resulted in a further decline in public confidence of FIFA. We cannot go on like this.

"Complete transparency is required if the actions of all those who bid, including England 2018, are to be judged fairly."

Dyke's letter said critical media reports about FIFA and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar could not be dismissed in the way they were by the president of world football's governing body, Sepp Blatter, in June.

It adds: "I know some of you believe that FIFA's reputation in England is the result of an obsession amongst the English media with FIFA, and I know Mr Blatter sees their reports as an unfair attack on the organisation he leads.

"However, in England we see it differently. The reports... do provide compelling evidence of wrongdoing. They cannot be simply dismissed as 'racist' or 'an attack on FIFA,' as Mr Blatter described them at the FIFA Congress in Brazil.

"Urgent action is needed if confidence in FIFA is to be rebuilt in England. The FA is of the view that this action should start with the full publication of Mr Garcia's report."