I suppose it is a mild surprise that Fifa didn’t choose Yemen to host the 2034 World Cup, as the bosses of that awful organisation seem determined to make football do a tour of the world’s most primitive and dangerous hellholes. Instead, it’s Saudi Arabia. Of course it is.

Over the last ten years the Saudis have been getting increasingly excited by football, first buying up Newcastle United and next buying every famous player aged 30 or over to compete in a league nobody cares about for fabulous wages.