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Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has blamed the UK media for England's failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
A Sunday Times investigation into corruption at Fifa was followed by the BBC's Panorama programme, broadcast three days before the 2 December vote.
Panorama made allegations about three Fifa executive committee members accepting "corrupt" payments.
Warner said: "Fifa could not have voted for England having been insulted by their media in the worst possible way."
England 2018 leaders have stressed that the media coverage was not the reason for their bid securing only two of the 22 Fifa members' votes.
However, a number of members of world football's governing body - including Cyprus' Marios Lefkaritis, Japan's Junji Ogura and now Warner - have insisted that was not the case.
Warner's support was key to England's hopes - in his role as president of the Concacaf confederation of Caribbean, North and Central American countries he controlled three votes.
England bid insiders said as many as six of the 22 members, including Warner, had promised them their votes. But it was England who were eliminated in the first vote in Zurich with Russia triumphing with an absolute majority of 13 votes in the second ballot.
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Chief executive of England's failed bid, Andy Anson, has called for the world's major football associations to force Fifa into reform, while Football Association acting chief executive Roger Burden has withdrawn his application for the permanent post saying he could no longer trust members of Fifa.
The World Cup bid cost England £15m. But public relations expert Mike Lee, who was behind Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 finals, has criticised the quality of the England campaign.
"This England bid campaign was not Premier League, it was relegation and League One," Lee, who has previously worked on the successful bids of London and Rio to stage the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. told BBC Sport.
"I'm not sure it is healthy to blame everyone else, and not reflect on the campaign itself."
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A Sunday Times investigation into corruption at Fifa was followed by the BBC's Panorama programme, broadcast three days before the 2 December vote.
Panorama made allegations about three Fifa executive committee members accepting "corrupt" payments.
Warner said: "Fifa could not have voted for England having been insulted by their media in the worst possible way."
England 2018 leaders have stressed that the media coverage was not the reason for their bid securing only two of the 22 Fifa members' votes.
However, a number of members of world football's governing body - including Cyprus' Marios Lefkaritis, Japan's Junji Ogura and now Warner - have insisted that was not the case.
Warner's support was key to England's hopes - in his role as president of the Concacaf confederation of Caribbean, North and Central American countries he controlled three votes.
England bid insiders said as many as six of the 22 members, including Warner, had promised them their votes. But it was England who were eliminated in the first vote in Zurich with Russia triumphing with an absolute majority of 13 votes in the second ballot.
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Arshavin understands 2018 backlash
Chief executive of England's failed bid, Andy Anson, has called for the world's major football associations to force Fifa into reform, while Football Association acting chief executive Roger Burden has withdrawn his application for the permanent post saying he could no longer trust members of Fifa.
The World Cup bid cost England £15m. But public relations expert Mike Lee, who was behind Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 finals, has criticised the quality of the England campaign.
"This England bid campaign was not Premier League, it was relegation and League One," Lee, who has previously worked on the successful bids of London and Rio to stage the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. told BBC Sport.
"I'm not sure it is healthy to blame everyone else, and not reflect on the campaign itself."
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