Once more through the looking glass. In a flurry of press releases, Fifa again attempted to bolt the stable door on its botched investigation into World Cup bidding long after a herd of horses had galloped over the horizon. Ahead of a pivotal two-day meeting of the Fifa executive committee in Marrakech, its tactic of trying to drown out criticism in bureaucratic gobbledygook appeared unlikely to succeed. With Fifa’s executives touching down ahead of a meeting that will again be dominated by discussion of Michael Garcia’s report, after the German Fifa executive, Theo Zwanziger, forced a vote over whether to publish it in full, a familiar process cranked into gear. First, its appeals committee rejected a claim from Garcia, the head of the investigative arm of its ethics committee, that Hans-Joachim Eckert, the head of the adjudicatory arm, had fundamentally misrepresented his 430-page report. Eckert’s 42-page summary was published last month and effectively cleared 2018 host Russia and 2022 host Qatar of serious wrongdoing despite admitting the former had refused to co-operate, having insisted all their emails had been lost, and a long list of question marks over the latter. In a move that was a surprise even by Fifa’s…