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England’s Football Association Chairman quits over 2018 World Cup bid row | The acting Football Association (FA) Chairman Roger Burden has said that he will quit as he no longer trusts FIFA members after the failure of England’s 2018 World
Cup bid. Burden said that he was not prepared to deal with people who were “not
men of their word”. “When we finished up with just one vote on top of our own
- I find that very difficult to understand. Prince William was promised a number
of votes and only one of those materialized, that is a disgrace,” Sky Sports quoted
Burden, as saying. “I feel there are members of the FIFA Executive Committee,
which is our governing body, who cannot be trusted - they are not men of their
word and that’s why I’m not prepared to deal with them,” he added. Burden, who
was appointed in May, had applied for the position of permanent FA Chairman, but
has now withdrawn from the race. He will continue as acting chairman for the time
being until a successor is appointed. England’s bid, which was called “excellent
and remarkable” by FIFA President Sepp Blatter, was dumped out of the running
in the first round of the vote, which was held in the international governing
body’s headquarters in Zurich. Russia was eventually named as hosts, beating Spain-Portugal
and the Netherlands-Belgium. According to reports, one of England ’s votes came
from their own executive committee member Geoff Thompson. Thompson and the England
2018 bid team believe that African football president Issa Hayatou was their only
foreign backer.
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