Germany's football chief tells FIFA boss Sepp Blatter to resign

Most football chiefs around the world have commented on the Fifa scandal surrounding corruption, but one executive has decided to speak to Fifa boss Sepp Blatter personally - and told him to quit.Reinhard Rauball is the head of the German football league, and he spoke on the telephone to Sepp Blatter, urging him to resign as the president of football's governing body with immediate effect. He also suggested that Wolfgang Niersbach be put forward as an ideal replacement.

But Rauball recognizes that the controversial decision to award the Gulf state of Qatar the World Cup 2022 was not made by Blatter alone. In fact, there were some 22 people involved in the voting process. Across Europe there have been calls from football chiefs, executives, former players and even politicians for the Michael Garcia ethics report to be published in full and without adaptations from Fifa.

Garcia spent more than two years investigating whether there was any corruption involved in the bidding process that saw Russia awarded the World Cup 2018 and astonishingly Qatar awarded the 2022 tournament. It would not be possible to play the tournament in Qatar during the summer months of June or July - when the event usually takes place - because of temperatures often reaching 48c (118f) during the afternoons. And even shifting it to the winter months would seriously disrupt the domestic seasons of all the European countries.

Germany warned earlier this month that Uefa (the governing body of European football) would quit the World Cup if the Garcia report was not published in full. Just four hours after Fifa had released the details it wanted to on the report, Garcia had said there were several erroneous entries and criticised the watered-down version of his findings.

A top British politician also urged Fifa to release the true findings of the report. Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport wrote personally to Sepp Blatter and warned that Fifa will damage the reputation of football should he fail to comply with his request to release the report's true findings.

German judge Hans Joachim Eckert, who published Fifa's summary of Garcia's report which, he said, provided no justification for challenging the right of Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments respectively and even went further to criticise England and Australia for their part in the process.