SIR Rod Stewart

has revealed he was offered £850,000 to perform at the World Cup in Qatar. ‘I turned it down. It’s not right to go,’ he said. David Beckham and Gary Neville, take note. Meanwhile, according to some sources, the regime in Iran has imprisoned almost 16,000 protesters, many of them young women. But England are preparing to take on the Iranian football team as though none of it was happening.

Not exactly the beautiful game, is it?