It’s a lonely life for Wags

As ocean-going metaphors go, the news that a £1 billion cruise liner (usually charging £2,434.80 – love that 80! – for a nine-night jaunt, complete with a shopping mall, 14 jacuzzis, six swimming pools and the longest ‘dry-slide’ at sea) will host England’s Wags during the World Cup in Qatar could not have been more splashy. 

This is a particularly bad time for football. The England players are off to Qatar, along with LGBT-friendly football personalities – led by ‘gay icon’ David Beckham – to shill for a country where migrant workers are treated like chattels, women are treated like children and homosexuals are treated like criminals. 

Like many greedy charlatans, Premier League footballers appear to have used the Black Lives Matter movement as a cover for their own venality, kneeling to indicate that they were part of the solution to social injustice rather than part of the problem. But when taken from the men who died building the World Cup wonderland, it seems black lives didn’t matter one bit.