The Fiver | Tying himself up in knots with mindboggling stupidity

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Considering how much of his working life is spent apologising for his own shortcomings and those of the Football Association he seems to constantly undermine, you could be forgiven for thinking Martin Glenn might be better at it. The FA chief executive’s week got off to a – cough – sorry start when he was forced to issue a mea culpa to Jewish people everywhere, after weirdly likening the Star of David to famous symbols of oppression that once had a place on certain football shirts but for obvious reasons no longer do, such as the hammer and sickle, swastikas and – only in Glenn’s fevered imagination, one presumes – pictures of Robert Mugabe.

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