Some Qatari sheikh geezer has bought himself a house in London. Just what we need, another home that is empty for 51 weeks a year. Only to be occupied when Son-of-Sheikh comes over in August with his gold Bugatti Veyron and Diamond-studded La Ferrari to race them round Harrods every night, upsetting the neighbours and the police.

This house only cost £40 million, so its not like they need to use it much. Just a little ‘pied-a-terre’ for shopping trips and football matches. Because Qataris love football, as we’re learning. And this purchase, in fact by the Qatari Royal family, is intended to start ‘a Qatari Quarter’ in London. Ahhh, nice.

Its the oil-rich nations’ version of a caravan site. They can adopt a little corner of Mayfair and fill it with their own. It’ll be really nice. Women will only be allowed in the Quarter appropriately dressed. Which means full burqas. Except the hookers, for whom appropriate dress is a little less Riyadh, a bit more Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman.

You’ll be allowed to hire slaves in the Qatari Quarter, force them into 7-day a week labour, pay them virtually nothing, house them in squalid barracks and feed them leftovers from the KFC wheelie-bin down the road. There’ll be no human rights in that Quarter of London. And it’ll run according to Sharia law. Meaning no alcohol. Except for the Sheiks when they entertain their hookers, of course. And any other total fucking hypocrites who fancy a quick pint.

And if they want to watch a football match, say Manchester United playing Liverpool, rather than shlep all the way up to Old Trafford, they’ll just bribe everyone to have the match brought down here into one of their gardens. It would appear to be the Qatari way.

Though all is not so wonderful for the nation hosting the 2022 World Cup. A BBC film crew was arrested there last week for ‘spying’. They’d gone to see how the workers (real ones, not like our Miliband-type ‘workers’) who are building the stadia really live. Not the lucky few who are fortunate enough to live in the ‘media friendly accommodation’ proudly touted to the world’s press, but the vast majority of virtual slaves from Sri Lanka and Bangla Desh who live in disgusting squalor. The crew were held and interrogated for 2 days, threatened with prison without trial, then suddenly released.

FIFA are now investigating this because if the World Cup actually goes ahead there, against all common sense and morality, there will be a lot of press arriving to cover it. And they can’t be randomly arrested or have limbs cut off just for swinging a camera around. Its just not football.

What was Cesc Fabregas thinking last night when he took a shot at that player’s head? Did he think no-one would realise it was him because of his cunning disguise? Tosser. Though nice to see Morinho doing a facial impression of Arsene Wenger. Abject misery.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx