Emails reveal Hargitay at one stage offered to put the bill through his own FFA-funded consultancy expenses budget as "marketing costs" to keep them off the official ledger.

In the end though the FFA footed a $90,000 bill for the nine days of hotel accommodation and flights for the team and officials which was condemned by the FIFA report.

The extent of the money involved in trying to rig a World Cup bid is revealed in the FFA talks with Oceania Football Confederation. Lowy is said to have offered a package worth $8m in Government aid to the Pacific nations.

That figure was dismissed as "peanuts" by OFC official Reynald Temarii compared to what was allegedly on offer from other rival bids, although he said the OFC would still have backed the Australian bid if Temarii, their representative on the ExCo, had not been suspended before the vote.

Elsewhere former SBS World Game host Les Murray - a friend of fellow Hungarian Hargitay - is accused of giving the consultant information from his role on the FIFA Ethics Committee.

The report says: "On January 7, 2009, FIFA Ethics Committee member Les Murray forwarded Mr. Hargitay an email he had sent to the Chair of the Ethics Committee, Sebastian Coe, asking to discuss potentially investigating certain conduct by England’s bid team.

"Mr. Hargitay then forwarded the email to Australia 2022 Chairman Frank Lowy along with the message: “Boom. Here we go:):)”

The report also says Hargitay used his connection with Blatter to smear Qatar's bid in a direct email to the FIFA capo, which is strictly against the rules of the bidding, but the move is said to have delighted Frank Lowy.

Former FFA Head of Corporate Affairs Bonita Mersiades's attempts to lift the lid on the bid are dismissed by the report over alleged inconsistencies between her version and official documents.

In the report she was dubbed AW – for Australian Whistleblower – but her previous job title was spelled out, robbing her of any anonymity.

In its defence, the FFA told FIFA they were simply following the rules of the bid process in trying to develop the sport to leave a legacy for the game from their bid.
 

Today the FFA admitted they had made mistakes in their bid but added: "As the report says, FFA provided “full and valuable co-operation” to the inquiry and former FFA officials involved with the bid co-operated with this and other inquiries into the bid process over the past several years.
 
"The report does not raise substantive new matters that have not already been the subject of other inquiries and/or media coverage since 2009/2010.  It does, however, contain further detail such as email correspondence provided to the inquiry by FFA. The report also states that “the Investigatory Chamber does not intend to pursue formal investigatory proceedings against any individual bid team member.”
 
"FFA reiterates that the financial management of the bid was routinely reported to Government and reviewed by independent external auditors. Its payment to CONCACAF was also investigated by the Australian Federal Police which found that no Commonwealth offence was identified.
 
"FFA has said repeatedly that the bid process for 2018 and 2022 was deeply flawed and that mistakes were made by the Australian bid team.
 
"However, FFA notes that FIFA continues to reform its governance, including relating to future tournament bids, and is confident mistakes of the past will not be repeated."