Reuters 3137 LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (MAY 27, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARSENAL MANAGER , TALKING ABOUT FIFA ARRESTS FOLLOWING U. S. INVESTIGATion, saying: “Look, I prefer that the whole inquiry is finished and done well and that the rumours disappear. There is nothing worse than rumours you know. Or they kill it and they come out and say that there was nothing wrong in it so we can move on or people who have done wrongly are punished and then you want them of course to have a new start. // Reuters 3177 LONDON, UK (MAY 27, 2015) (ITN - SEE RESTRICTIONS ABOVE) (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP) AND FOUNDER MEMBER OF CAMPAIGN GROUP ‘NEW FIFA NOW’ DAMIAN COLLINS SAYING: “The whole thing throws into question the right of Russia and Qatar to host the world cups. If they won those competitions on a corrupt process, how could that be allowed to continue? That process should be re-run and it calls into question the authority of Sepp Blatter and whether he should be allowed to be a candidate for the FIFA presidency” // Reuters 3179 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 27, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS COMMITTEE, IGOR ANANSKIKH: “Of course, there are a lot of questions. But I can say with utmost certainty that all questions to those (FIFA) officials are not related to the bidding campaign of the Russian Federation for the 2018 World Cup.” // “There have been no questions to the bidding campaign of the Russian Federation for the 2018 World Cup. And currently not a single official is questioning the right of the Russian Federation to hold the 2018 World Cup.” // “Our plans will not change. Those plans that are being put in place now will certainly be put in place. I don’t have any doubts that we will brilliantly hold the 2018 World Cup and we will do everything to make it the best one. And we will of course be expecting all Russian and foreign tourists at our stadiums.” Reuters 3166 ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (MAY 27, 2015) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (SOUNDBITE) (French) CHADIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION DELEGATE, KADRE SALEH, SAYING: “For the moment, we don’t have any information. We don’t have any information, we heard this morning that there were problems with disagreements and corruption. But we don’t know. We don’t have any information at the moment. The Congress is tomorrow, so we’ve just held the CAF congress. But we didn’t discuss it.” // (SOUNDBITE) (French) SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE TOGOLESE FOOTBALL FEDERATION, FERDINAND AMAZOHOUN, SAYING: “I, for one, can’t really understand why it was only today that they decided to arrest them. We’re a few days from another vote. This strikes me as if there is an ulterior motive, quite simply. I am a little surprised that they decided to arrest them just today.”