Greg Dyke told MPs yesterday that the Football Association will look into suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter’s staggering revelation that there was an agreement in place for Russia to host the 2018 World Cup before a single vote was cast.

Blatter told Russian news agency Tass that in 2010 a decision was made to award Russia the 2018 tournament and the US the 2022 World Cup — before dodgy Uefa boss Michel Platini backed Qatar.

The announcement caused outrage in the FA who splashed £21 million on England’s failed bid — including £2.5m of public money from local authorities.

Dyke said it would be “very nice” if the FA got their money back — which is unlikely — but they would investigate whether Blatter’s claims are true.

Giving evidence to the culture, media and sport committee, Dyke said: “We will look into detail at what Mr Blatter says. Yes, I suspect the response will be: ‘I was misquoted.’

“If he says that then I think there is something to investigate.

“There’s nothing Blatter says that surprises me much. If he is saying: ‘We wanted Russia’ and it looks like he wanted that fixed before the vote, it’s suggesting that it was all fixed anyway.”

When questioned whether England’s governing body would look to recuperate the bid cash, he replied: “We will obviously go back and look at it. I think it would be a good idea. But get the bid costs back from whom? From Fifa?

“I agree it would be very nice to get taxpayers’ money back.”

Blatter’s comments are sure to further the crisis at Fifa, with the Swiss placing the blame on Platini for Qatar being awarded the 2022 World Cup and not the US.

“In 2010 we had a discussion of the World Cup and then we went to a double decision. For the World Cups it was agreed that we go to Russia because it’s never been in Russia, eastern Europe, and for 2022 we go back to America. And so we will have the World Cup in the two biggest political powers.

“And everything was good until the moment when (then French president Nicolas) Sarkozy came in a meeting with the crown prince of Qatar, who is now the ruler of Qatar. And at a lunch afterwards with Platini he said it would be good to go to Qatar. And this has changed all pattern [sic].

“There was an election by secret ballot. Four votes from Europe went away from the US and so the result was 14 to eight.

If you put the four votes, it would have been 12 to 10. If the US was given the World Cup, we would only speak about the wonderful World Cup 2018 in Russia and we would not speak about any problems at Fifa.”