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Sepp Blatter Says 'cold War' Has Broken Out Between Fifa And FA by topclubv: 12:00pm On May 16, 2013
Blatter, 77, also stated it is "not rational" to play the 2022 competition in the summer heat in Qatar, where temperatures can reach 50C.
England only attracted two votes to host the 2018 World Cup.
Persistent allegations of corruption have since been made about the World Cup bidding processes.
Blatter said: "Before the awarding of a World Cup or Olympic Games, there is a meeting with the politicians. We had it here in Zurich.
"They influence the voters. England didn't get the 2018 World Cup and, ever since, there has been a cold war with Fifa."
Russia beat England and joints bids from Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium to win a ballot of Fifa's 22 executive members for the right to host the 2018 World Cup. At the same ceremony in December 2010, Qatar was backed to host the 2022 tournament.

New stadiums are being built in Qatar and existing ones will have their capacity extended
A number of senior Fifa officials, including two executive committee members, have since been banned for breaching the organisation's ethics code in the run up to the decision.
The world governing body has reacted to the scandal by appointing lawyer Michael J Garcia to head an ethics committee investigation.
Speaking about the 2022 vote, Blatter said voters were influenced by the pressure to take the World Cup to the Middle East for the first time.
He said: "There were interventions at different levels so that it would go to an Arab country. Geopolitics did its work."
In March, Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke argued that the Qatar World Cup could be moved if medical reports highlighted related health risks.
Blatter said plans to use air-conditioned stadiums in the Arab state would not be sufficient.
"The World Cup is more than just stadiums, it is an array of social and cultural activities around the competition,'' Blatter told French newspaper L'Equipe.Play media

Scientists suggest 'cloud' to combat Qatar heat"What do we do? It's not rational and reasonable to play in June-July.
"Our technical report, which was available to all the members of the executive committee before the 2010 vote, exposed these difficulties."The idea to move the competition away from its traditional time has previously been backed by Uefa leader Michel Platini and world footballers' union FIFPro.
Blatter has given varying views on the issue. In January 2011 he said he expected a winter event, but backtracked on that a month later.It has been proposed that any decision to move to a northern hemisphere winter date should be made by 2015 in order to give national leagues and competitions around the world sufficient time to reorganise their calendars.
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