Dire Damian is at it again

LATER this month, senior football association executives will appear before the Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport to explain their inept handling of the Mark Sampson affair. Without doubt, it was a mess. Beware, however, damian Collins and his fellow MPs looking to wheedle their way into more authoritative roles by the back door. ‘We cannot have any confidence in the fa, which raises the question of whether we need to look again at having an independent regulator for football and whether the fa are even fit for purpose,’ said Collins. does the name of this independent regulator spring to mind? Perhaps it would be someone who, once an obscure backbench MP, has managed to dramatically raise his profile by calling sport to order at pointless committee hearings that revisit old ground, pore over evidence that is already in the public domain, and ultimately has no power. and even if you feel the Select Committee does good work, you might care to look at the state of Collins’s own party at its conference in Manchester this week, and ask whether you would place any of them in charge of a five-a-side, let alone the national game.