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English FA boss Dyke slams Blatter

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LONDON

English FA chairman Greg Dyke slammed embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Saturday for being anti-British and said the next boss of football's governing body had to be very different from the controversial Swiss.

Last month Blatter announced, just days after his re-election, that he would step down amid a widespread corruption scandal at the organisation.

He told a Swiss magazine on Thursday the English had wanted him out and had "hatred" of FIFA because "they no longer control football".

Dyke, whose association was set up in 1863 and was the earliest in the world as football first developed in England, did not mince his words in reply.

"He's always disliked me, he hates the British media and doesn't like the English at all which is fine because we don't really like him," Dyke told Sky Sports.

"I do think he's coming up with some rather strange things. He's probably in a state of shock. This is a man that was triumphant, he thought he was going to run FIFA for four years when actually he only ran it for four days.

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