As the 2026 tournament approaches, Fifa’s World Cup hosting controversies reach new extremes, writes JAMES NALTON
Here we go again, eh? Another week another set of clueless trigger-happy owners giving a manager the bullet. Makes you wonder how these people made their money in the first place.
This time it was Leicester, and Gary Lineker didn’t hold back. “Was always a miracle,” he tweeted from the warmth of the TV studio, or perhaps the comfort of his La-Z-Boy, “but it’s even more remarkable really that Leicester won the league given the ineptitude of those that run the club.” You tell ’em, Gary!
Yet, whatever Lineker — a man who, lest we forget, has never run a club — might spout from his electronic soap box, a dispassionate assessment of the Srivaddhanaprabha family’s ownership of Leicester City shows they’ve hardly put a foot wrong.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE reminisces on how he became an Aston Villa fan, and writes about the evolution of the historic club over the years
RAHMAN OSMAN speaks to fan favourite Aston Villa forward Ollie Watkins about bringing his childhood dream to life on the pitch



