FIFA President Sepp Blatter Warns FA Chair Greg Dyke Over World Cup Report

FIFA President Sepp Blatter rejected FA Chair Greg Dyke's call to publish ethics investigator Michael Garcia's report "into allegations of corruption in World Cup bidding," according to the PA. Blatter replied to a letter from Dyke, saying that "publishing the report would break FIFA's rules and Swiss law." Blatter's reply to Dyke states, "FIFA would violate not only its rules and regulations but also Swiss law by making public the report in question." Blatter said that "every person in the report would have to give consent to publication -- something that would be practically impossible." He added, "We have been advised that publication of the report might be permissible if the persons and entities included in the report consent to such publication and waive any legal action they might be entitled to bring" (PA, 11/19).