Football's world governing body Fifa has been thrown into chaos after the lawyer who led their controversial investigation into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup finals denounced the Fifa report into his findings.
Michael J Garcia, the American who spent 18 months on the investigation, said Fifa's abbreviated 44-page report by the German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert "contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions detailed in the investigatory chamber's report".
Garcia will now appeal to Fifa against the report. However, the 14-strong Fifa appeals committee have close links to the governing body and the likelihood of them finding against Eckert's report is slim. It seems Garcia's only option would be to publish his investigation independently.
The development was part of a dramatic day on which Eckert's report, released at 9am, heavily criticised the English Football Association's 2018 bid team while exonerating Qatar's controversial 2022 bid.
In response, FA chairman Greg Dyke attacked the contents of the report and called for publication of Garcia's full investigation.