ALL SHEIKH-EN UP
The Premier League has been mothballed for more than a week, allowing the much-maligned international break a chance to shine. We’ve seen Scotland qualify for the Euro 2024 group stages, Wales revive their campaign and Gareth Southgate lean in to his new irritable, eye-rolling late-era England manager phase. We’ve seen it all, quite frankly – but in a league where 50% of the entertainment happens off the pitch, the Barclays was never going to stay in the shadows. And so it proved on Saturday night, just as Lithuania were taking the lead in Bulgaria, as Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani dramatically pulled the plug on his multibillion-pound bid to buy Manchester United.
