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Monday 06 December 2010 8:53 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 7:12 am

Ferguson no fan of Fifa

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FOOTBALL: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson doubts Fifa will ever become a fully democratic organisation after England’s 2018 World Cup bid was spectacularly shunned by the world governing body last week. Media allegations of corruption in the Zurich-based organisation have led to widespread calls for a reform in its structure. Ferguson said: “I don’t know how you can change Fifa. It is a new word for Fifa, democracy.”

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