Clarke’s Qatar summit

OH, to have been a fly on the wall in the VIP Wembley suite last night with FA chairman Greg Clarke hosting both Qatar World Cup chief Hassan al Thawadi and German football president Reinhard Grindel, who has been very critical of Qatar staging the 2022 tournament.

In contrast, Clarke, unlike his predecessor Greg Dyke, is keen to build bridges with Qatar but hasn’t been advertising the fact, having personally been under so much pressure for his inept handling of the Aluko-Sampson scandal.