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Barney Ronay has done us a favour by reading a book on Gianni Infantino so we don’t have to. Funnily enough, I was killing time watching some World Cup preview programmes on a recent plane journey in which the Fifa president popped up dressed like someone from East 17 in their pomp. A big white coat kindathing. Here’s a more recent one of him trying to appeal to Canadians.

Let’s come up for air from our Champions League buildup and switch focus briefly to the World Cup! Yes, it’s now less than two weeks until we drop everything and tune in excitedly to, erm, Mexico v South Africa.