Football’s billionaires will win in the end

Not for the first time, our Prime Minister has executed a very sharp U-turn. Last month, heralding the achievements of AstraZeneca, Boris Johnson professed that the vaccine had been made possible because of greed, echoing the phrase used by Gordon Gekko in Wall Street that ‘greed is good’. Now, though, he seems to be of the mind that greed is very bad indeed. He pronounced himself ‘horrified’ that six Premier League clubs intended to form a European Super League, from which, following the American model, they could never be relegated, in order to trouser even more outrageous sums of money for themselves.

He was not alone: the entire country reacted with disgust and fury. Even Prince William expressed his ‘concern’ (if only we knew what Meghan thought). Apparently shocked at the reaction which greeted their announcement, all the English clubs involved have now resiled. But believe me, this will be back, and they will, in the end, have their way.