Now there’s a total surprise

Fifa president Sepp Blatter rejects calls for the report into alleged World Cup bidding corruption to be made public.

It’s not exactly rocket science

Let the Scots vote on Scottish matters, the English on English matters, the Welsh on Welsh matters, the Northern Irish on Northern Irish matters and everyone votes on UK or Union matters. It doesn’t need Constitutional Committees, meaningless ‘commitments’, Waffle Commissions, Study Groups or the like.

Has he suffered a bang on the head?

The president of the Partido Popular andaluz, Juanma Moreno, wants the ‘Party’ to be ‘More humble, more open, more transparent and exemplary, more dynamic and motivated’ at the next municipal elections.

Probably not many

Uefa president Michel Platini insists he will not return a £16,000 watch given to him by the Brazilian Football Confederation. The most fascinating question from this whole affair is how many of the 65 watches dished out will be returned, as requested, to Fifa. Surely they should return them to the sponsor who handed them out, not to Fifa. Meanwhile: …