The Temple of Dagon

Qatar FIFA and the joint Spain-Portugal FIFA bid teams have always strenuously denied collusion over the sharing of votes, and no evidence of this was presented in Eckert's report.Robertson, who was appointed as Minister for Sport in the months leading up to the decision to award the FIFA 15 to Russia and Qatar in December 2010, said it very quickly became clear to him that the process was flawed. World FIFA governing body FIFA have cleared both Qatar and Russia of any rule breaches FIFA president Sepp Blatter hands over the FIFA 15 trophy to Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-ThaniHe told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek programme: 'The problem here is that the FIFA rules were not at all clear. I asked the question when I became sports minister about what we were and were not allowed to do, and one of (the England FIFA bid team) said, and I quote exactly: 'There are no rules, it is a Wild West of a bidding process.''Robertson claimed the violations by England FIFA detailed by Eckert - which included helping to secure employment for an associate of Warner and covering the costs of ut coins a £35,000 gala dinner for Caribbean FIFA Union officials - were 'minor infractions' compared to other things he believes were going on.'Being British we've been quite honest about what we did and I suspect quite a lot of other bidding nations haven't been honest,' he added.'You come back to the central point in all this - the FIFA bid team did not think they had done anything wrong. Andy Anson who was leading the bid is a man of enormous integrity and honesty.' Former sports minister Sir Hugh Robertson says he was told there were 'no rules' to the bidding processRobertson backed calls for Garcia's report to be published in full, adding: '(Publishing the report) is the only possible way that FIFA can start to regain its reputation. It has no reputation at all - the words 'FIFA' and 'corruption' are inextricably linked.'The only way they could start to repair their reputation would be to publish that report in full, to shine a light into dark places.'But I think the chances of that happening are fairly limited, unless Michael Garcia decides the damage to his professional reputation is so great that he redacts those bits where he's made commitments to people and then releases it unilaterally, I think that's probably our best hope.'The FA may try to introduce a pre-qualifying process within FIFA when they next bid for the FIFA 15 to minimise the chances of FIFA-style corruption.