England manager Roy Hodgson has described the corruption allegations against FIFA as "very disturbing" and "saddening" as former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton and Culture Secretary John Whittingdale called for Sepp Blatter to resign as president.
Football's world governing body was plunged into crisis after a wave of arrests of football officials including two FIFA vice presidents in Zurich on Wednesday on bribery, fraud and money laundering charges following an FBI investigation.
The news has caused outrage across the world of football and Hodgson has been taken aback by the scale of the allegations.
"It is very disturbing," the England manager told a press briefing in London. "Whenever clear signs of corruption have taken place at the very highest level, how can any football lover not be disappointed about that? But what should and will happen [now], I will stay away from that.
"I will leave that to [Football Association chairman] Greg [Dyke] and to the FIFA executive committee and they can get on with it because at my particular level, I work in a football team, it doesn't affect me.
"But as a football lover it affects me and it is very saddening... one hopes desperately that measures will be taken to make certain it doesn't happen again."
As well as the American probe into FIFA, the decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar will be scrutinised by the Swiss government.
England bid to host the 2018 World Cup, and FA officials have indicated they could step in if the tournament is taken away from Russia, but that is highly unlikely. FIFA has insisted throughout the week that the next two World Cups will go ahead as planned in Russia and Qatar.
Dyke said recently the FA would only be interested in bidding for the World Cup in the future if FIFA president Sepp Blatter steps down.
Former UEFA president Lennart Johansson said England should be given the 2018 World Cup instead of Russia.
Johansson, who lost the 1998 FIFA presidential election to Sepp Blatter, says the 2018 and 2022 World Cup awards should be reviewed in the light of the new corruption charges, telling Swedish newspaper Sportbladet: "I expect they will reconsider the [World Cup] decisions. Blatter himself has said that the decision to go east wasn't proper. I am sure the initiative will now be taken to make a new decision.
"England haven't had it since 1966 and it's considered 'the motherland of football,' whatever we might think. They are worthy of the attention."
Shilton told ITV News he will find it "crazy and puzzling" if FIFA delegates do not vote Blatter out on Friday and believes it is time to up the pressure and "get rid of the man."
Asked how saddened he was that Blatter did not seem to be going anywhere, Shilton said: "FIFA are the governing body of football and responsible for the World Cup -- and millions of football fans over the world must be wondering what's going on there.
"Accusation after accusation against them over the last few years and now it's all come to a head. Sepp Blatter seems to still want to carry on. They need a clean sweep and fresh faces at the top and it needs to happen now -- there's no doubt about that."
Whittingdale told MPs the arrests of FIFA officials were "shocking in both their scope and scale" but they were also "far from surprising."
He said the Government fully supported the FA's position that significant and wide-ranging reforms are urgently needed at the top of FIFA, including "a change in its leadership."
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch will write to her European counterparts setting out the UK's concerns and seeking their support for change, Mr Whittingdale said.
Tory Stephen Phillips, who asked the urgent question, called for the Government and FA to take steps to recover the £19 million "wasted" on England's 2018 World Cup bid, which could have gone to grassroots football.
He also called for FIFA to reopen the bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which are due to be held in Russia and Qatar.