Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is understood to have been chiefly responsible for turning down an approach from Amazon for another All or Nothing football documentary following their Manchester City series.

Amazon Prime were keen to go behind the scenes at Anfield this season, especially as unbeaten Liverpool are showing they are the most likely team to mount a sustained challenge to City for the Premier League title.

It’s said that many of the Liverpool top brass, including American owner John Henry, were prepared to let the cameras in. But Klopp had the final say and was fully against the intrusion.

Jurgen Klopp was against Amazon coming in to the club to film All Or Nothing this year

Klopp believes there is nothing to be gained from fly-on-the-wall exposure and that people’s behaviour changes when they are on camera.

The Anfield boss would also have been aware that Being Liverpool, the six-part documentary on the club filmed in 2012, did not show former manager Brendan Rodgers in a good light.

After the Liverpool rejection, Amazon hope to strike a deal with Bayern Munich.

All Or Nothing showed footage from Pep Guardiola's dressing room team talks

Among the main concerns of the Japanese organisers of the 2019 Rugby World Cup is how to deal with the dreaded English Press.

Japanese culture accentuates politeness, with a strict etiquette governing social interactions.

Safe to say these are not necessarily the major priorities of our highly competitive press pack when chasing a story.

The RFU have decided after a difficult financial year that none of their staff, including the management team, will receive their habitual annual bonus.

This suggests English rugby’s ruling body, who declared a £6m operating loss for the financial year ending June 2017, will not hit targets when the 2018 figures are published — especially after a recent redundancy process in which 52 jobs were lost.

The RFU’s financial management has been the subject of much scrutiny following a report by former chief executive Francis Baron, who is due to have a second meeting soon with RFU chairman Andy Cosslett.

The bonus ban doesn’t affect England head coach Eddie Jones, who has a separate performance-related deal. But after finishing fifth in the Six Nations, Eddie will not be getting any extra money either.

Eddie Jones has a performance-related deal but will not get any bonus for Six Nations display

The doubts and suspicions surrounding the Wembley sale were laid bare at a meeting of around 70 National Game councillors.

The summit took place a week before the FA board are due to vote on September 27 whether to recommended the proposed £600m deal with Fulham owner Shahid Khan.

It didn’t help that FA staff were not invited to the councillors’ meeting to explain the fine print of the Wembley sale, so many confused blazers left still unclear of the full picture, including how and to whom the money will be distributed.

It only added to the uncertainty when they were asked to vote in a secret ballot on whether they will automatically accept the decision of the three National Game representatives at next week’s board meeting.

Most would probably have said no. The pathetic reason given by former FA vice-chairman Roger Burden for keeping the vote a secret was so that the result didn’t end up in next day’s Daily Mail.

There is plenty of suspicion and uncertainty around Shahid Khan's attempt to buy Wembley

World athletics ruling body the IAAF, who have led the way in fighting Russian state-sponsored doping, are expected to wait until they are actually allowed into the Moscow laboratory before allowing Russia back into competition.

The anticipated vote by anti-doping body WADA to declare Russia compliant on Thursday agreed a date of late December for lab data.

But the Moscow site is still a crime scene following the uncovering of the industrial scale of Russian cheating.

President of the IAAF, Sebastian Coe, will wait until the organisation can access the laboratory

Bookmakers William Hill’s knowledge of football politics is slim to non-existent judging by their betting market for the next executive chairman of the Premier League.

First, executive chairman is not a post being filled. There will be a chief executive plus a part-time chairman.

The market includes 10-1 shot Paul Cook, whoever he might be, when they meant Gary Cook, former Manchester City chief executive. And Stewart Regan, former Scottish FA chief, is named as Stuart Reagan.