Changing room chat: Sepp Blatter to oversee corruption watchdog

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is to set up a new committee to ensure his organisation is free of corruption after scandals surrounding the votes for World Cup hosting.

"I will take care of it personally, to ensure there is no corruption at Fifa," Blatter said.

He aims to present the project to Fifa's congress of 208 football nations in June, where he will stand for presidential re-election seeking a fourth four-year term in office. "This committee will strengthen our credibility and give us a new image," said Blatter, who acknowledged last month that Fifa "can't go on like this" after the World Cup voting process damaged the governing body's reputation.

Fifa officials were accused of bribe-taking and vote-trading before the 2018 and 2022 World Cup elections last month. Russia and Qatar, respectively, were awarded the tournaments.

Fifa's ethics court investigated and barred two of the 24-member executive committee, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, from voting based on evidence provided from an undercover sting by a British newspaper. Adamu, from Nigeria, became the first Fifa official suspended for bribery.