Dyke slams Qatar call

FORMER Football Association chairman Greg Dyke says FIFA must be ‘hoping for the Qatar World Cup to end to get back to normal’ following the decision to hold it in the Middle Eastern country.

The 75-year-old, who was also a director of Manchester United, said: “It was always a ridiculous decision and it was corrupt. We have to accept that most of the people who voted for Qatar, the executive who voted for it, most of them were driven out of football for corruption.

“It was a bad decision, FIFA’s own safety committee recommended strongly against it, which is why, in the end, it had to be moved from the summer to the winter.

“If you wanted to put a World Cup in the Middle East you would have done it over four or five countries. “I think it was a poor decision by FIFA and I do think that it has tarnished the World Cup this time and I think FIFA, which is under a different management now, must be just hoping for it to be over so they can get back to normal and the normal will be America and Canada.”