Strasbourg, 24/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - The decision to assign the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was so “radically flawed” by illegal payments that FIFA should hold a new vote under cleaned-up procedures, said the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Thursday 23 April.
In rejecting, by 25 votes to 16, with 7 abstentions, the referral back to committee of the report by British Socialist Michael Connarty on the reform of football governance, PACE, at the same time, called...