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In full: Greg Dyke's letter to FIFA Executive Committee

Read the full text of Greg Dyke's letter to FIFA's Executive Committee demanding that they release the full report into World Cup corruption.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke today sent a letter to FIFA's top executives urging them to fully publish a report into alleged World Cup corruption.

Dyke and American lawyer Michael Garcia, who spent two years investigating the issue, have demanded that the report be disclosed in full after a 42-page summary was released last week.

In the summary, Russia and Qatar, who won the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups respectively, were cleared of any wrongdoing by FIFA, but it was stated that England broke rules in their pursuit of the 2018 tournament.

Dyke has now written a formal letter to FIFA as below, via BBC Sport's Dan Roan.

"I am writing to each member of the FIFA Executive Committee on behalf of The FA to urge you to insist on the publication of Mr Garcia's full report as a matter of some urgency.

"As you probably know the reputation of FIFA was already low in England and much of Europe before the events of last week. The failure to publish Mr Garcia's report and his statement that the summary report which was published contained 'numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations' has resulted in a further decline in public confidence of FIFA. We cannot go on like this. Complete transparency is required if the actions of all those who bid, including England 2018, are to be judged fairly.

"I know some of you believe that FIFA's reputation in England is the result of an obsession amongst the English media with FIFA and I know Mr Blatter sees their reports as an unfair attack on the organisation he leads.

"However, in England we see it differently. If you read a whole range of English newspaper reports about FIFA, particularly those in the Sunday Times, they do provide compelling evidence of wrong doing. They cannot be simply dismissed as "racist" or "an attack on FIFA" as Mr Blatter described them at the FIFA Congress in Brazil.

"Urgent action is needed if confidence in FIFA is to be rebuilt in England. The FA is of the view that this action should start with the full publication of Mr Garcia's report."

Garcia is due to meet the report's author, Hans-Joachim Eckert, a FIFA ethics judge, on Thursday to discuss his criticisms.

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