in the world, you have in your sports teams, franchises, salary caps, socialism for rich guy owners. there s none of that in the premier league. at tend of the day, we re just cheering for money, for excel spread sheets. this week the united states men pick up their qualification for world cup. it will be in qatar. roger bennett, thank you very much. and it s great to have you on. ed loose, your latest piece for the financial times is entitled we should pay more heed to alarmists. it sounds like very optimistic way to start the week. fill us in. i was responding to the bob kagen piece and my colleague martin wolf wrote a piece called the the strange death of more than democracy . just to push back, haven t we