SUFFER THE LITTLE GINGERS

The millionaire Swiss chief of World Cup organisers Fifa, Gianni Infantino, moved many by comparing the suffering he endured having red hair as a child to the migrant workers who died slaving in the desert heat to build the stadiums in Qatar.

Despite such stiff competition, our Cultural Sensitivity of the Week prize goes to the England fans who arrived to watch their team play in Doha dressed as crusaders.

While some fans have been dressing as knights for years in a nod to the nation’s patron saint, St George, the penny hadn’t dropped that centuries of rape and pillage may have been seen rather differently in the Middle East.