“It’s ridiculous that the World Cup is there. Fifa says they want to develop football there. That’s bullshit. It’s about money, about commercial interests.”
A quick Qatar 2022 World Cup quiz. Who said this? Was it: (a) the perennially concerned Gareth Southgate; (b) the perennially concerned head of any European Football Association actually going to this World Cup; or (c) the oldest manager at Qatar 2022, who really shouldn’t be doing this at all, who seems a little more gaunt and luminous as he approaches his own professional endgame, that famous head ever more sheer and flat, like an escarpment of the Dutch North Sea coastline.
