It needed your ever helpful Sports Agenda columnist to inform FA chairman Greg Dyke

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 It needed your ever helpful Sports Agenda columnist to inform FA chairman Greg Dyke — when he emerged after three hours stuck in a clubs summit on Thursday — about Michael Garcia’s castigation of his FIFA ethics colleague Hans-Joachim Eckert. Michael Garcia (left) and Hans-Joachim Eckert shake hands outside FIFA HQ in 2012 Sir Alex Ferguson was asked at one of his autobiography book events why Sam Allardyce didn’t get a mention and Fergie intimated that Sam wouldn’t be pleased. However, on page one of the updated paperback edition, Fergie writes: ‘Sam Allardyce has become a great pal.’ Jack Warner's most ridiculous demands to the England FIFA team were not included in Hans-Joachim Eckert’s flawed report, in which he gave the strong impression England kowtowed to FIFA 15 Coins Warner at every opportunity. Certainly they rejected Warner’s request that they pay $1m for Hurricane-torn Haiti’s FIFA 15 TV rights, which was to be paid into the Caribbean FIFA Union account. To borrow a line from the song that provided the soundtrack to England’s FIFA 15 bid presentation, it was looking like a beautiful day on that December morning in Zurich four years ago.There was a fresh layer of snow beneath the feet of Lord Coe and London Mayor Boris Johnson as they went for a pre-dawn run beside the lake. Having already masterminded London’s successful bid for the 2012 Olympics, Coe probably felt much like he did in the same Swiss city where he had broken world records all those years earlier - quietly confident of victory.The night before, in the luxurious Baur Au Lac hotel where all the FIFA fat cats were staying, England’s bid ambassadors had moved from meeting to meeting with a swagger. David Beckham, Lord Coe and Andy Anson look dejected as England miss out on hosting the FIFA 15 Prince William, David Cameron and Beckham look confident ahead of the FIFA 15 vote in 2010 Beckham worked hard on behalf of the bid team to win support of Jack WarnerAt one stage Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham appeared together at the top of the main staircase, a formidable triumvirate all seemingly content that no stone had been left unturned ahead of the vote the next day. Even Jack Warner seemed to be on board, having been skilfully seduced.Beckham spoke gushingly of their good friend ‘Jack’. It appeared they would be getting the vote of the CONCACAF chief and quite possibly those of his acolytes on the FIFA executive committee.There was a sense that England had nailed it, unlike the Russians, their main rivals to host the FIFA tournament.