By the end of 2017 — when the full Garcia Report was released, when the Sunday Times had been publishing for three years, when seven FIFA officials had been led out of a Zurich hotel under bedsheets — the case for institutional action was as clear as it was ever going to be. Nothing happened. Russia 2018 went ahead. Qatar 2022 went ahead. No World Cup was moved, no host was stripped, no senior FIFA official was sanctioned for the conduct of the bidding.

In this episode:

- The three procedural mechanisms that could have re-opened the votes — and why each one wasn't invoked

- Sepp Blatter's repeated public admission that the 2010 vote was "a mistake" — what an admission means without action

- Domenico Scala, FIFA's senior compliance figure, and his May 2016 resignation in protest

- The 2017 reform that came instead — a ...