LONDON: FIFA vice president David Gill boycotted an executive committee meeting on Saturday in protest at the election of Sepp Blatter, the Swiss football supremo branding the Englishman's snub as 'irresponsible' behaviour.

Gill said he could not serve under Blatter because of the mounting corruption scandals that have hit FIFA and the threat to his "professional reputaton."

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