Former Football Association vice-chairman David Dein called for Fifa to be “dissolved” yesterday and a new world governing body established in its place.

Dein was international president of England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup and said he felt “abhorrence” when he heard suspended Fifa president Sepp Blatter admit this week a deal had been struck before the 2010 vote to give the tournament to Russia.

The depth of the Fifa scandal has been so great that Dein believes the only option is to shut down the organisation and start from scratch. As well as a series of arrests of Fifa officials in May, there have been numerous allegations of bribery and malpractice.

Asked about his response to Blatter’s 2018 World Cup revelations, Dein said: “I felt astonishment and abhorrence. We wanted a clean joust and it has transpired it was anything but — it appears that the game was being played with a loaded dice.”

Dein, also previously vice-chairman of Arsenal, said a “radical” fix was needed for Fifa.

He said: “It’s a big question. I would be very radical. I think Fifa’s image has been damaged beyond repair. I think it needs to be dissolved and to start again.

“It needs a clean start, to be dissolved and started afresh. The sponsors need it, the fans need it. Stop a fan in the street and ask for an adjective to describe Fifa, and the one word they will use is ‘corrupt.’”

Dein said he had been shocked by the revelations about Michel Platini’s 2 million Swiss franc (£1.3m) payment from Fifa in 2011 for work carried out at least nine years before and £4.6m paid to Fifa “by mistake” by the 2006 Germany World Cup organisers.

He added: “We are hearing stories within the last month of a figure of 2m Swiss francs for work purportedly done nine years previously. We have heard about a payment of £4.6m which was ‘a mistake.’ Are these fairy tales? It tests our intelligence.

“What about $20m going to a Fifa movie which never saw the light of day? You tell that to the poor kids in the favelas of Brazil or the homeless in Haiti who could have had that money.”

Meanwhile, Blatter claims that the bribery and corruption scandal surrounding him is politically motived by the US.

“It is the US companies,” Blatter said. “The other companies haven’t said anything. So you are intelligent enough to make the connection with American companies and the American investigation. I do not need to underline that.”

Blatter is currently serving a 90-day suspension from Fifa following a US Department of Justice investigation into bribery, money-laundering and wire fraud.