Greg Dyke finds few surprises after chance to digest full Garcia Report

Former FA chairman Greg Dyke says there were few surprises in the Garcia Report, which was published in full earlier this week.

FIFA decided to release the full 430-page report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Tuesday, with German newspaper Bild having already received a leaked copy before starting to release some of the main points.

The 2014 report, written by former New York attorney Michael Garcia, had only ever been published in summary form, a decision that led Garcia to resign from his role in December 2014.

But Dyke told Sky Sports News HQ that there was little in it which shocked him, saying: "We always wanted it released but I don't think we ever had great expectations of what was in it and I think that was proved to be the case.

"I don't think it was a revelatory document but it always seemed strange that they wouldn't publish it.

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"I did know they [the FA] had tried to do a deal with South Korea, to swap votes - ie we vote for them for 2022 and they vote for us for 2018. Interestingly we voted for them, and they didn't vote for us.

"I don't think there was anything surprising in it. What happened was we played like the Brits always do and gave them all the information, whereas others like the Russians lost every laptop or computer they had ever had and therefore had nothing."

FIFA has confirmed there will be no re-vote on Russia hosting the 2018 tournament or Qatar the 2022 event, and Dyke admits he still finds the decision on the latter award strange.

"Russia has got to go ahead as it is next year," Dyke added. "But Qatar, the question that is never answered is why did they all vote for them?

"They didn't meet most of the qualifications; it's not a big country, there is no history of football, there aren't many cities to put bases in and you could never play in the summer because of the heat.

"Their own technical committee recommended against it, so how come it ended up there? But that's where the question ends as we don't have any more evidence than that. Personally I think it's a terrible mistake, and I think most involved with FIFA think that, but we have to ask the question why did they take that decision."