Michael Garcia has revealed that he is to appeal the findings of his FIFA ethics report, claiming that it contains "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations".
The FIFA investigator compiled the original report which looked into allegations of corruption during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
The 42-page report cleared Russia and Qatar, who will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively, of any wrongdoing, while also criticising the English Football Association.
However, Garcia released a statement just four hours after the report was published, stating that "it contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions".
FIFA's independent ethics adjudicator Hans Joachim Eckert wrote the report, which football's world governing body had hoped would put an end to the damaging episode surrounding corruption claims.
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Daniel Lewis
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