Terriers should bite now

IN his three years in charge, it seems Gianni Infantino’s two major contributions to the game have been to introduce plans to expand the World Cup from 32 teams to a preposterous 48 and to be frequently photographed with a lot of famous ex-footballers.

Yet when FIFA’s presidential elections come around in June, Infantino will stand unopposed.

Sepp Blatter? Infantino? It does not matter. FIFA should not be a fiefdom.

THIRTY per cent of the players who started the opening round of matches were born outside the countries they were representing. Maybe it is about time the Six Nations got a new title. INCLUDE the Community Shield in your calculations and Manchester City have scored 114 goals across all competitions this season.

Huddersfield Town have 13 to their name – and one of those was an own goal.

Forget the odd freak result, never has the disparity between the elite and the flotsam and jetsam at the foot of the Premier League been more pronounced.

Which is why relegation is not the doomsday scenario many seem to paint it as.

Huddersfield are going down and, you know what? They might win a few games, score a few goals, have a few more shots.

It is what football is all about, last time I looked.

HE might be long lost to the red ball game but, occasionally, as they flounder in the Caribbean, the fact that arguably the best captain in world cricket plays for England can be a bit of a headscratcher.

He just might have made a decent Test captain, Eoin Morgan.

EVEN for those of u desperate to uphold the traditions of the Cup, the use of replays at any stage of the competit is becoming indefensible. West Brom’s average crowd for a home Championship match is around 24,000. There we 8,645 people there for th fourth-round replay defea to Brighton.

That, sadly, says it all.