Former FA chairman David Bernstein has suggested that there should be a "rebidding process" for the 2022 World Cup rather than it being played in Qatar.

Qatar won the bid to host the 2022 World Cup three years ago, but the decision has since come under increasing criticism, as the players would have to play in temperatures of up to 50°C were it to be played in the summer.

One of the alternatives proposed is to move the World Cup to winter, although the proposal has seen a backlash from a number of figures in European football as the whole football calender would be disrupted for a number of years.

"It was a strange award in the first place, we all know that," Bernstein told BBC Radio 5 Live. "The bid that Qatar submitted was a summer bid.

"It was accepted by FIFA as a summer bid, so I don't believe that it is impossible to hold the competition in the summer. But I think the idea of just arbitrarily changing from summer to winter smacks of what I would call a false prospectus.

"It is a massive thing. It will not affect just one season but, I believe, three seasons - those either side of 2022. It's a very big thing to do. My end view is either that it should be left where it is or there should be a rebidding process."

Bernstein was FA chairman for two years following his appointment in 2011.