I am simply going to say that I would rather football, once a social sport, dealt with matters like poverty, which impact directly on the communities in which football clubs are based, than a subject that many connected with the game appear to know very little about.

Imagine what a sport worth billions with stars worth millions, could achieve in helping working people survive the Cost of Greed Crisis? Indeed, it seems crass, even a little hypocritical, for the Football Association to state that:

“If fans adopted three climate-friendly habits across the course of the 20-day tournament – reducing their shower time to four minutes, having two meat-free days per week and turning the thermostat down by one degree – fans could save more than 700m kg CO2e, the equivalent of planting 11.78m trees.”

And,

“By adopting these small changes for one year, they could reduce their household bill by up to £728.”

Personally, I would rather that the Football Association paid for the 11.78 million trees and, as to the £728 reduction in household bills, well why not just pay that to those who do live in poverty and yet still follow their football clubs?

It is easier to appear to be doing the right thing by getting others to change their ways to suit someone else’s agenda than to actually do anything at all.