Lord Triesman accuses Fifa executives of 'unethical behaviour'
• Former FA chair lifts lid on 2018 World Cup bid
• Jack Warner said to have wanted £2.5m to build school
Lord Triesman, the former Football Association and England 2018 chairman, has accused several Fifa executive committee members of "improper and unethical" behaviour.
He told the select committee looking into football that the Fifa vice-president Jack Warner asked for money – suggested to be £2.5m – to build an education centre in Trinidad with the cash to be channelled through him, and later £500,000 to buy Haiti's World Cup TV rights for the earthquake-hit nation, also to go through Warner.
Paraguay's Fifa member Nicols Léoz asked for a knighthood, he alleged, while Brazil's Fifa member Ricardo Terra Teixeira asked Triesman to "come and tell me what you have got for me", although Triesman said the comment could be open to interpretation.
Thailand's Fifa member Worawi Makudi wanted to be given the TV rights to a friendly between England and the Thai national team, said Triesman.
He added: "These were some of the things that were put to me personally, sometimes in the presence of others, which in my view did not represent proper and ethical behaviour on the part of members of the executive committee."
Asked why he did not report the incidents to Fifa, Triesman said he feared that would damage the England bid but admitted he should have done so and pushed for action.
"The point was not pressed," he said. "And I think, in retrospect, we would have burned off our chances.
"In retrospect that was not the right view to take and I accept that."
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