Andy Anson, the chief executive of the failed England World Cup 2018 bid, has said there is no point in the country bidding for the tournament again until Fifa changes. He also said that Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, had spoken to members of the executive committee about the "evils of the media", just before they voted on the hosting of the 2018 and 2022 events. Russia will host the first tournament and Qatar the second.

England were knocked out in the first round of voting in Zurich yesterday, having gained two votes. Some Fifa members are blaming the BBC's Panorama programme and a Sunday Times investigation into corruption for a backlash against England. Anson said such media activity was referred to by Blatter in his final speech to the 22-man executive committee, just before the vote.

In a separate development this morning, the minister for sport and the Olympics, Hugh Robertson, told Talksport radio that a rumour in Zurich suggested only three members of the Fifa executive committee had asked to see the technical report on the English bid.

Robertson said: "One of the rumours sweeping Zurich last night was that there are 22 Fifa exco delegates as you know, and the rumour was that only three of them bothered to call for the technical reports and two of those bothered to call for those technical reports so they could release them to their own bid teams. If you have 22 exco members and they're not bothering to read the technical reports, I think that probably tells you it's not a football-based decision."

At a news conference in Zurich Anson, asked if England should bid to host the tournament again, said: "I would say right now, 'Don't bother until you know that the process is going to change to allow bids like ours [a chance] to win. When you have the best technical bid, fantastic inspection visits, the best economic report, and, from what people told us, the best presentation, it's quite hard to stomach that all that seemed to count for absolutely nothing.

"Having only 22 guys only voting gives them too much influence. Running two bids together was clearly a huge mistake. Everyone who had a vote and a bid clearly wanted to trade that vote for something that helped them get over the line in that campaign. Australia had a very good bid and they got one vote, we had a very good bid and we got two, the USA had an unbelievably strong technical bid and got three. Six votes in the first round between those three, there's something not quite right.

"You have to open it up to all member associations and have transparency and open voting so everyone knows who voted for whom. With 22 guys having so much power it becomes very, very difficult."

Anson said he had been told that Blatter, the Fifa president, had spoken to executive committee members of the "evil of the media" just before the vote.

He added: "I think that was unhelpful – the last thing those guys hear before they go and tick the box is the evil of the media. That is not helpful and actually inaccurate. I was told by someone who was in the room that that's the last thing they were told by Sepp Blatter. There was a final sum-up before they voted and I think it was at the beginning of that. That's not helpful to our cause."

Anson said that the defeat was hard to stomach and that he felt let down.

He said: "I still find it hard to understand what happened. I'm not going to beat around the bush – individual members promised to vote for us and didn't, clearly. That's difficult to stomach when they have given you assurances. They are saying to us that our media killed us but I don't believe that for one minute, but that's what we are being told.

"Russia did a lot of last-minute lobbying and votes appeared to switch at the last minute – we know some switched in the early hours of the morning. We were not naive, though. We knew that could happen and David Dein and Simon Greenberg stayed up [lobbying] until 5am."