World Cup bid decision is final, insists Blatter

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has insisted the investigation into 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding will not be reopened despite the world governing body lodging a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over "suspected unlawful activity" of unnamed individuals connected with the bidding contests.

The report to the Swiss prosecutors follows a recommendation by Fifa’s ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert as part of his findings into the Garcia investigation on World Cup bidding.

Blatter said however that the lodging of the criminal complaint does not affect Eckert’s statement last week that the investigation into the bidding process for the two World Cups is concluded.