JEFF POWELL MBE: It's time England led the football world again by standing up to mafia godfather Gianni Infantino - his plan to sell the World Cup is a bribe by any other name and there's only one way we can save our sport from extinction

Just as it is no fault of the immigrant parents who named him that he has grown into the problem child of world football. That is down to the greatest game on earth for standing by as he plunges his sticky hands into the goodie jar. Time now, surely, for THE Football Association – still the first FA in the esteem of much of world football – to take the lead. To rescue the greatest sporting show of all, which the World Cup is still despite all the trials and tribulations of 2026. For FA's sake explain that this is an offer from the Infantino 'football family' which has to be refused.