Senior FA official turns down FIFA role while Blatter remains

Football Association vice-chairman David Gill says the “terribly damaging events” of the past week convinced him to reject a place on FIFA’s executive committee while Sepp Blatter is still president.

Gill, a Manchester United director, confirmed he did not attend Saturday’s first executive committee meeting following Blatter’s re-election to a fifth term in office, where he was due to sit as Britain’s FIFA vice-president.