Keith Wiseman: I have no problem with the issue

In an exclusive interview, the man facing a vote of no confidence at the FA, remained defiant over the cash-for-votes scandal.

Keith Wiseman talks openly to the BBC

The controversy has already forced Graham Kelly to quit as FA chief executive, but Mr Wiseman says as an elected official it is important for his fate to be decided by a full meeting of the association's council in January.

The chairman has faced calls for his resignation over a £3.2m loan to the Welsh FA in exchange for their support of England's bid to have him placed on Fifa's executive committee.

Mr Wiseman has remained at his home since Mr Kelly's departure

Mr Kelly resigned on Tuesday but denied any wrong-doing after the FA's executive committee failed to agree to the loan.

The committee also carried a unanimous vote of no-confidence in Mr Wiseman, but the chairman says it is not up to them to dismiss him.

He said the FA Council has to decide the matter at its meeting on 4 January since this was the body which elected him.

"I'm simply exercising what I think is a perfectly proper and sensible right to have the matter taken back to the council," he said.

"I think the process adopted so far is effectively unconstitutional and I simply want the right to speak to my own council and what follows from that we shall see."

Keith Wiseman: 'Bribery is something where someone is in the Bahamas'

Mr Wiseman said he understood why Mr Kelly had resigned immediately, but insisted his case was different.

"The pressures that would have been acting on Graham earlier in the week are very different from those acting on myself. Graham was a senior paid employee of the Football Association.

"He would have been offered terms in relation to the position that existed on Tuesday," he said, adding that Mr Kelly would have acted differently had he also been an elected official.

"In a free situation I don't think for one moment he would have wanted to resign."

'No bribe'

Mr Wiseman also refuted claims that the financial loan to the FAW could be considered a bribe.

"Bribery is basically something where someone is in the Bahamas with the money and we're talking about a development programme for Welsh school children," he said.

"The basic position in relation to what the FA of Wales issued is that the FA were requested to consider the possibility of offering some help for their development programme.

"They (FAW) were also wishing to stand at that time for the Fifa position that England were hoping to obtain."

But he said officials in Wales had told him that their development programme was more important to them than the Fifa vice-presidency and that they would stand down in return for the loan.