Talking nonsense about football is a lucrative and growing business, hence the explosion in podcasts in which former players exchange inanities about the game. A surprising new entrant to this festival of footballing gibberish – a right winger fresh from the subs’ bench, so to speak – is Suella Braverman. The former Conservative home secretary, who joined Reform UK in January, has called on the Football Association to scrap its ‘woke’ diversity and inclusion policies. She wrote to the FA’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, this week claiming its strategy was ‘fundamentally flawed, inherently racist and bad for the game’ because ‘the best coaches should get the job, not because of their skin colour, but because they are the best person for the job.’

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