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British sports chief discusses breaking away from FIFA

Updated: 2011-05-12 12:45

(Agencies)

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LONDON - Britain's sports minister says he discussed breaking away from FIFA with officials from other nations in the fallout from England's failed 2018 World Cup bid.

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Two members of FIFA's executive committee were suspended for corruption before the World Cup poll in December in which England captured only two votes.

Sports Minister Hugh Robertson told the BBC he had "taken the temperature from other football associations around the world (about breaking away), particularly we did that in the wake of the 2018 bid."

Robertson says the plan now is "to try to work to change FIFA from the inside."

New corruption allegations were made Tuesday against four more FIFA members by David Triesman, the former chairman England's Football Association.

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