FIFA have tried to mount a damage-limitation exercise after shocking new allegations of World Cup bid corruption.

PRESSURE is growing on FIFA to launch a full investigation into fresh allegations that six executive committee members asked for bribes or favours, including a knighthood, in return for World Cup votes.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has promised to address the latest allegations of bribery within the organisation.

Amos Adamu is to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after FIFA’s appeals committee upheld a three-year ban following the Sunday Times investigation into World Cup bidding.

FIFA’s appeals committee has upheld bans on two executive committee members who had suspensions imposed following the Sunday Times investigation into World Cup bidding.

FIFA have confirmed that two executive members, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, have formally appealed against bans imposed as a result of a Sunday Times undercover investigation.

UEFA president Michel Platini has insisted the BBC Panorama programme screened last night should not affect England’s 2018 World Cup bid.

THREE senior FIFA officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids allegedly took bribes in the 1990s, according to the BBC’s Panorama.

FIFA has taken stern action against six officials involved in a corruption scandal. Nigeria’s Amos Adamu became the first FIFA member ever to be banned for bribery when he was suspended for three years and fined 10,000 Swiss francs (€7,300) by FIFA’s ethics committee.

FIFA executive committee members Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii have been suspended from all football-related activity for three years and one year respectively in relation to allegations of corruption regarding World Cup votes.

FIFA’s ethics committee will today announce their decision on two executive members accused of asking for money in exchange for World Cup votes.

England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup will be boosted today when it is officially judged as “low risk” in FIFA’s evaluation reports of the bidding countries.

The contents of a notorious note passed between two FIFA members has indicated that Spain/Portugal and Qatar’s World Cup bids will escape any action over allegations of collusion.

England 2018 leaders have admitted that an undercover investigation into FIFA by a British newspaper has “significantly damaged” their bid to host the World Cup.

A senior FIFA figure has condemned an undercover investigation into World Cup bidding as “unethical”.

Amos Adamu, the Nigerian official provisionally suspended by FIFA over bribery allegations, today denied any wrongdoing.

The two FIFA executive committee members allegedly caught up in a World Cup cash-for-votes scandal have been provisionally suspended pending a full hearing next month.

Russia’s 2018 World Cup bid leader has highlighted London’s “high crime rate” and youth alcohol problems in an interview which appears to contravene FIFA’s bidding rules prohibiting comments about rival bidders.

FIFA tonight announced they have opened disciplinary proceedings against two senior members alleged to have asked for cash in return for World Cup votes.

At least two bidding nations for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups are set to be investigated by FIFA as part of their inquiry into a bribery scandal.

Fears that England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup may suffer a backlash by a FIFA bribery scandal have been downplayed by a senior member of world football’s governing body.

FIFA are considering postponing the decision on the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as they investigate allegations that two senior members offered to sell their votes.

FIFA are investigating allegations that two officials offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup.

FIFA have demanded that the Nigerian government withdraw their ban on the Super Eagles playing international football for the next two years and given them until Monday to comply.