Greg Dyke deems Sepp Blatter's exit' brilliant' for football

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has called Sepp Blatter's resignation as president of Fifa "brilliant for world football."

Dyke said that it should have happened years ago, adding that there was a need for root-and-branch investigation of Fifa and it should be all transparent in the future, reported the BBC.

He said that they could now get someone to run Fifa, and find out where all the money had vanished over the years, streamlining things for future.

Even though seven top Fifa officials were arrested two days before the vote as part of a US prosecution, Blatter was re-elected for the position, which the FA had opposed.

But after admitted that his mandate "does not appear to be supported by everybody" he called for an extraordinary Fifa congress to pick a new president at the soonest.