Spanish officials are set to renege on a promise to the English Football Association not to use tomorrow's friendly with England in the Bernabeu Stadium to promote Madrid's 2012 Olympic bid, a rival to London's. Duncan Mackay reports.

The FA believed it had an agreement with its Spanish counterparts that neither would use the match as an opportunity to showcase the bids. But Madrid organisers have bought advertising space on boards around the stadium.

Spanish FA officials claim there is nothing they can do because a private third-party company is in charge of advertising space at the match.

"Ultimately it's a matter for the Spanish FA and the Madrid bid," said Mike Lee, the spokesman for London 2012. "But in our view it may be within the letter of the rules but not in the spirit."

The five cities that want to host the 2012 Games handed over their final proposals to the International Olympic Committee yesterday. The other bidding cities are New York, Moscow and Paris, the 4 to 7 favourites. A decision is due to be announced in Singapore next July.

Anti-corruption officials at the IOC are scrutinising the selection process more closely than ever, in what is expected to be the most keenly fought bidding race in Olympic history.

Craig Reedie, president of the British Olympic Association and a member of the London 2012 board, is the subject of a complaint to the IOC from Les McDonald, president of the International Triathlon Union. McDonald is upset at Reedie's support for Britain's Sarah Springman, who is standing against him in elections next month.

London Olympic chiefs, meanwhile, expressed mounting confidence yesterday as they submitted their bid. But bid chairman Sebastian Coe admitted this week that the French capital had enjoyed a head-start based on work carried out during previous unsuccessful attempts to host the Games.