David Conn seems to be the only journalist in the country who gives a damn about the fact that English club football is being bought out by chancers, spivs, crooks and shady foreign characters. The latest in his weekly string of scoops is that Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, The Man behind the man at West Ham, was once convicted of embezzlement.

Does this news not in any way concern the blazers at the FA?

How many more such buy-outs will have to happen before they introduce a “fit and proper persons” test for the owners of much-loved institutions that (usually) give so much to their local communities?

And why the fuck did the BBC allow Garry Richardson to masturbate Eggert Magnusson (Gudmundsson’s front man) on Radio Five Live’s Sportsweek last Sunday morning instead of asking some genuinely taxing questions about his organization’s intentions?

Who knows if there is much worth saving in This Septic Isle these days but surely some of the things that count the most cannot themselves be counted – however big the pile of £50 notes involved?