England’s Eric Dier has made a passionate plea for the future of football to be placed into the hands of people who love the game.
As FIFA and the Football Association became embroiled in a stand-off about the decision to allow Harry Kane to lead the Three Lions into the World Cup wearing a ‘OneLove’ armband as a powerful statement against discrimination, the Tottenham defender admitted that politics have cast a dark shadow over the tournament.
Dier, 28, whose grandfather Ted Croker was a highly-respected administrator who worked as secretary of the FA for 16 years, admitted that he worries about the direction the game is lurching. The central defender has educated himself on how migrant lives were sacrificed building the seven new stadiums that will stage the games in Qatar.
