Quinn admits football must work on its image

Niall Quinn is emphatic: “Football has a job to do”.

And not just because this has been among the least enthusiastic build-up to a Premier League season in two decades. As part of Sky Sports’ punditry team for the new campaign, his job is to try and drum up that enthusiasm — but that does not mean he is willing to let the sport off the hook.

He is concerned for the image of football after the general goodwill of the Olympics seemed to cast the supposedly elitist game in the worst possible light.