Interesting development. You can understand the club’s sensitivities & also fans’ rivalry/generating atmosphere. Where do you draw the line? Some chants are obviously offensive & need stamping out. Will every chant be scrutinised, sanitised, even liquidated? Swearing about VAR?

Increasing focus on JP Morgan role in Gianni Infantino’s hastily-abandoned plan to sell off parts of the World Cup. Bankers now getting scrutiny, the latest inspection in the Telegraph today. It’s obviously all about the money for them but surely somebody involved in the process might have mentioned what the inevitable reaction and outcome would be. Humiliation. Surely somebody had even the faintest knowledge of football, and the emotion it stirs, and that they were not simply toying with a struggling soybean operation somewhere in the Midwest. They were toying with the world’s game, the World Cup. And billions care. A financial institution staffed with some very intelligent people must have remembered its involvement in the European Super League fiasco. Humiliation. “We clearly misjudged how this deal would be viewed by the wider football community and how it might affect them in the future,” a JP Morgan spokesperson said back in 2021. “We will learn from this.” Clearly not. Next to their boardroom they need a readtheroom.