FA chairman Greg Dyke has urged FIFA to suspend its executive committee member implicated in Russia’s doping scandal.
The country’s sports minister, Vitaly Mutko, was criticised in a damning report produced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in which it was claimed 1,417 samples taken from athletes were deliberately destroyed. That decision was allegedly taken on the orders of the director of Russia’s drug-testing laboratory — who took cash to cover up positive tests — and has led to claims Russia should be banned from next summer’s Olympics.
Mutko is also the head of Russia’s organising committee for the 2018 World Cup in addition to his place on FIFA’s ex-co group and Dyke said: “Whether someone who is involved in all that can stay on the board of FIFA is something FIFA needs to address very quickly.”
