Hans-Joachim Eckert, the German judge deciding what action to take following FIFA’s investigation into alleged corruption surrounding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes, said he doubted “if football and ethics can still fit together”.

The Munich-based head of the Adjudicatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Commission also had a warning for delegates attending FIFA’s Ethics convention in Zurich on Friday at which he will make a speech on the subject.

“Many won’t like what I am going to tell them,” he told Reuters yesterday.

FIFA’s investigation into alleged corruption surrounding the votes won by Russia and Qatar in December 2010 was delivered by New York attorney Michael Garcia at the beginning of this month.

“I am expecting a decision in a few months. I see the beginning of November when I am going to get ready,” Eckert said.

“I am currently reading the 360 pages,” he said, adding that he has also received some 200,000 other pages of documents relating to the case.

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