Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has called on FIFA to postpone the race to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups following fresh media allegations of corruption. The call from the campaign group came just before the executive committee of world football’s governing body is due on Thursday to designate the two host nations, in front of a high-powered gathering of world leaders and stars. The selection of the 2018 and 2022 hosts “must be postponed until full light is shed on the allegations published in the press”, Transparency International Switzerland said in a statement Monday. “These have brought such discredit to the decision-making processes at FIFA that a decision in the current circumstances would only fuel the controversy,” it added. The Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported that Ricardo Teixeira of Brazil, African football chief Issa Hayatou and his South American counterpart Nicolas Leoz were tied to a secret list of payments from bankrupt FIFA marketing partner ISMM/ISL over a decade ago. An investigation by BBC current-affairs programme Panoroma, broadcast late Monday, accused the same three executives. Panorama also accused a fourth FIFA executive committee member, Trinidad’s Jack Warner, of attempting to sell World Cup tickets on the black market. The programme…