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The FA chairman Greg Dyke says that he would bet on Sepp Blatter being arrested amid investigations into Fifa corruption

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    Greg Dyke says he is pleased that the FA ‘stood up to be counted’ in the current controversy. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian
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    The Football Association chairman, Greg Dyke, has said he would bet on Sepp Blatter being arrested and predicted the outgoing Fifa president would be forced out within “a couple of months”.
    After Blatter announced this week that he would resign days after winning a fifth term as president, Dyke also claimed the Swiss deliberately targeted countries in the developing world where governance was lax because it offered more opportunities for corruption.
    “The great danger now is you get Blatter Mark II. That’s the danger. It needs a root and branch change of the structure of the organisation. Blatter won’t lead that reform, he can’t do it,” said Dyke in a Guardian interview. “And he’ll be gone. He won’t last. The one thing you discover if you run an organisation is that the moment you say you’re going, you’ve gone.”
    Dyke, who said the week that brought down Blatter was his best since he left the BBC in 2004, claimed it had been good for the FA’s reputation to lead the calls for him to resign.
    “We stood up. The FA hasn’t always stood up. The history is not that good. We stood up. We stood up to be counted. We stood up to him,” said Dyke, who spoke out against the Fifa president a year ago in São Paulo after Blatter accused the British media of racism over corruption allegations.
    Asked whether he would bet on Blatter being arrested if he had to choose, Dyke replied: “Yes.” Blatter has strenuously denied all wrongdoing.
    The FA chairman also definitively drew a line under suggestions that England could benefit by hosting the 2018 or 2022 World Cup if there was a revote.
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    Such speculation has been seen as unhelpful by those who fear it plays into suggestions from Vladimir Putin and others that the FBI investigation that has already led to 18 Fifa officials and marketing executives being charged is motivated by bitterness.
    Dyke agreed it was “unhelpful” for the London mayor, Boris Johnson, to have suggested England should step in.
    “Yes. Because it looks like we’re doing it all for our own personal gain. We won’t have the World Cup in 2018, and we certainly won’t have it in 2022.”
    Dyke, who said the Qataris would “sleep even less well” after the FBI expanded its investigation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, said he was “too old to care” about those who believed the FA should have played a less active role in deposing Blatter.
    “Already I’m sure there’s people in the FA saying: ‘Ooh he shouldn’t have said that, he shouldn’t have said this,’” he said. “I’m certain there’s already people saying I shouldn’t have said anything about Qatar.”
    Earlier this week, the Qatar 2022 organisers insisted they had done nothing wrong and pointedly told Dyke he should concentrate on building an England team that could win the tournament.
    But Dyke restated his view that the 2018 and 2022 votes would have to be revisited if clear evidence of corruption was found by the FBI or Swiss prosecutors.
    “I mean, look, there is no doubt that nobody can or will do anything against Qatar or Russia until the legal process is complete and unless there is evidence, laid bare, by some sort of investigative authority,” said Dyke, who will be FA chairman for two more years until he has to step down under its rules.
    “But if it is there, if the evidence that these were awarded after a degree of corruption, clearly they’ve got to be revisited.”

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