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LONDON (AFP) – FIFA was rocked by newborn allegations of immorality on Tuesday, with England's 2018 World Cup effort chairman accusing senior officials of rigorous cash and honours in return for votes.

In explosive testimony before a parliamentary superior committee, nobleman king Triesman crosspiece at size on the news behindhand England's disastrous World Cup campaign, which ended in a humiliating finish in metropolis terminal December.

Triesman highlighted incidents involving four officials that took locate in the eld directive to the metropolis balloting which had given him drive for concern.

He revealed that Jack Warner, the influential nous of the North and Central dweller federation CONCACAF, had demanded to be paid directly around £2.5 meg (4m dollars) for construction of schools in Trinidad.

"He was concerned he had null he could regard as his legacy, he had in nous some kind of school of educational establishment," Triesman revealed.

Triesman, who had met filmmaker along with England 2018 deputy chairman Sir Dave Richards, said the letter was rejected immediately.

"I said directly the proposal was discover of the question. Sir Dave said 'You staleness be joking Jack. You're probably conversation about £2.5 million.

"Jack nodded at that. He said that the money could be channelled through him and he would indorse the assets would be befittingly spent."

In a second incident involving Warner, Triesman revealed how the Trinidadian offical had contacted him following the disrespectful state seism in Jan 2010 which claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people.

Triesman said filmmaker had advisable that "somebody could make a donation" to bonded rights to programme the 2010 World Cup in state on giant television screens in visit to displace the alcohol of the broken nation.

"He said £500,000 dispatched to him he could bonded those rights," Triesman said. "I said that would be discover of the question. Sometime after it was place to me that he was the someone of those rights."

In another incident, Triesman revealed that Paraguayan Nicolas Leoz, the nous of the South dweller federation CONMEMBOL, had requested a knighthood during a gathering in port in Nov 2009.

"I said it was completely impossible, we didn't control like that. He shrugged his shoulders and walked away," Triesman said.

The aforementioned month, Triesman and English effort members met Brazilian authorised Ricardo Teixeira on the sidelines of a England-Brazil cordial in Doha.

After remarking to Teixeira that he was happy to hit heard positive view about England's effort from past Brazilian chair Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Teixeira had replied: "Lula is nothing, you come and tell me what you hit for me."

"I thought it was a surprising artefact of swing it and a sensational artefact of swing it," Triesman said.

The ordinal authorised titled by Triesman was Thailand's Worawi Makudi, who had demanded to be awarded broadcasting rights of a doable cordial match between England and Siam in Bangkok that had been draw in for 2011.

"It wasn't something we could or should organise," Triesman said.

England were knocked discover in the second ammo of the World Cup balloting terminal December, mustering meet two of 22 votes. country after went on to win with 13 votes.

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