World Cup bidding 'the Wild West'

FIFA ran a “Wild West” bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups which encouraged would-be hosts to enter into inappropriate behaviour, Britain's former sports minister Hugh Robertson has said.

The world governing body is firmly under the spotlight again following the release of a report on Thursday by the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA’s ethics committee which cleared Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments having found no serious breaches of bidding rules by either nation.