Bournbrook decided to send our special reporter to Qatar to investigate what effect the alcohol ban is having on the England supporters.

It seems an inconsistent pay packet for an already rich man to accept when otherwise presenting himself as holier-than-thou back home.

The entire sport is irredeemably corrupted and incorrigibly venal. We might as well enjoy the decline- turn on, Toon in and cop out.

We should be acknowledging a common pride, a common community, and a common history, as permanencies.

It is a divisive political cause with an extreme agenda: abolish the police, dismantle capitalism, obliterate the nuclear family, to name but a few

We need root and branch reform to reset football and to make sure this never ever happens again.

This is no longer the old world of left and right but groups of people with entirely different value systems, languages, objectives, and lifestyles that foster a dogmatic distrust and fear of the other.

As usual when one opposes any social justice dogma of the epoch, one is met with a string of dehumanising insults in order to silence any wrong think.