England should be considered as a host for the 2022 World Cup if Qatar loses the right to host the tournament, former FA chairman Lord Triesman told The Sun.

After the Qatar World Cup team was reported to violate Fifa’s rules by deploying black operations to ruin opponents running to host the tournament, the Labour peer has put England forward to host a first World Cup since 1966.

Qatar is accused of paying a PR firm and ex-CIA agents to spread fake propaganda about rival bids not being backed in their own territories, according to The Sunday Times.

The alleged use of the tactics, which would breach Fifa bidding rules, is the latest in a string of accusations about the Qatar bid, which won the hosting rights in December 2010.

Mohamed bin Hammam, the Qatari former president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), was found to have paid members of other football associations to back his country's bid in 2014, a revelation that came two years after he was banned for life by Fifa.