Miguel Delaney: Uefa should not betray its own principles by approving games abroad

Miguel Delaney: Uefa should not betray its own principles by approving games abroad

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin. Photo: Getty

When Uefa’s Executive Committee meet in Tirana on Thursday, there is likely to be an agenda item under “Miscellaneous” that will have far greater consequences than such innocuous placing suggests.

Then again, that’s exactly how football has been transformed over four decades: new rules agreed in quiet rooms, only for everyone else to realise the true significance when it’s too late. The effects of this item are likely to be irrevocable.