THE LAST WORD

FOOTBALL’S SHAME

‘Football’s darkest secret’ was harrowing yet required viewing exposing how the sick tentacles of child abuse affected our national sport.

WOMEN’S TV RIGHTS

The deal to sell the rights of the Women’s Super League to Sky while keeping a foothold in the BBC. This will get the league moving forward again.

JESSE LINGARD

He could have stayed put at Manchester United. Instead, he put himself back out there and has been rewarded with an England call-up and potential new contract at Old Trafford.

RIO FERDINAND

The TV pundit and former England star told Newcastle supporters upset with Mike Ashley to club together to buy the Magpies from him. A practical impossibility.

FIFA’S FFP

Binning the financial fair play regulations that FIFA insisted upon. The pandemic is being used as the excuse for axing a plan that was fatally flawed.

GARETH SOUTHGATE

Claims he knows his team for the Euros. A dangerous game, that. What happens if Harry Kane (left) picks up a knock?

GARETH BALE seems incredibly keen to go and play again for Zinedine Zidane, his manager at Real Madrid who ignored him for the past two years.

Or is it the prospect of sunnier weather and the golf course that’s really missing?

Tweet of the week? @EFL “All five @England goals were scored by players who either came through an EFL academy or played for an EFL club, including a debut goal for Ollie Watkins.” The Football League, for all its faults, still matters.