Greg Dyke: Fifa can’t afford repeat of cult of Sepp

Fifa cannot be allowed to regenerate into another Sepp Blatter-style cult, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke warned ahead of today’s presidential vote.

Five candidates are running to succeed Blatter, who was voted in on five occasions, including last May, and made their final pitches to delegates at confederation meetings in Zurich yesterday.

Blatter stepped aside days later amid allegations which led to a six-year ban which he is contesting, prompting the world governing body’s extraordinary congress in the most pivotal period of Fifa’s near-112 year history.