Monday 20 July 2015 14:54, UK
The most powerful officials in world football are gathering in Switzerland for an extraordinary meeting to decide the date of the election to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA president.
FIFA's Executive Committee will meet at FIFA headquarters on Monday morning to discuss a date, and wider reform, after Blatter announced his intention to leave his position.
His decision came four days after his re-election in May, and nearly a week after seven FIFA officials were charged by the United States authorities over alleged corruption.
Blatter has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
Top executives will hold informal talks on the eve of the meeting inside the five-star Baur au Lac hotel, where the cheapest room is nearly £600-a-night.
FA vice-chairman David Gill will attend the meeting, his first official role as a FIFA vice-president, after he previously refused to sit on the same committee as Blatter.
Gill, who replaced Jim Boyce in May, remains hostile towards Blatter’s presidency, and the FA demands structural reform.
"The reform programme cannot be left in the hands of Blatter," FA chairman Greg Dyke told Sky Sports News HQ ahead of the meeting. "We don't like him. This is a man who is probably in a state of shock. He was triumphant. He was going to run FIFA for the next four years, and actually gave it up after four days. FIFA is an organisation that has been corrupted over 40 years."
Domenico Scala, the FIFA executive overseeing the election process, has declined to confirm or deny whether he intends to run for presidency, and is understood to have privately played down 'speculation' over his future plans.
Scala issued a statement last month and said: "The times of flirting with the power are definitely gone. I call on all concerned - including Mr Blatter - to endorse in the interest of the reforms unequivocally the announced changing of the guard at the top of FIFA."
The Premier League has also called for urgent reform at world football's governing body.
"You sit there with some despair, really," Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore told Sky Sports News HQ during this month's Asia Trophy in Singapore. "It is the game you love, and the world governing body is going through such turmoil. Who is holding the organisation to account? Things have got to change; we know things have got to change. Let us hope the change is going to be made to bring some sort of impact to the game."
Blatter intends to travel to Russia for the World Cup preliminary draw, which takes place in St Petersburg on Saturday, in his first trip outside Switzerland since he announced his intention to stand down as FIFA president.
