Simon Jordan gives his verdict on whether England should boycott World Cup in Qatar

Jordan insists it is not the job of England's footballers to tell another country what their approach to society should be relating to potential boycott in the Gulf state.

The talkSPORT host also believes such actions would only achieve something if England were not alone in doing it.

Qatar has been mired in controversy ever since it was awarded the finals in 2010, but alleged human rights violations and ill-treatment of migrant workers have been drawn into sharp focus.

England's players and staff previously held initial discussions as to how they could use their platform at November's tournament to drive change.

Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate admitted last week that he was unsure what a boycott of the tournament would actually achieve.

"First of all, it is unfair of putting footballers that position", Jordan said.

"They should be aware of the back drop of the situation surrounding the building of stadiums in that country.

"Whilst we know the western standards we want are not being replicated in Qatar, it is not necessarily our job, and certainly not the job of our footballers to go into another country and tell them what their standards, protocols and approaches to society should be.

"We know in the west that that being homophobic and misogynistic are not traits that we want to see around the world, but it is not our gift to go to Qatar and lecture them about how their society is held together, and it certainly isn't the gift of our footballers.

"Now, you extrapolate that up, and if you want to say to those footballers, you want to have an opinion, you're entitled to have one.

"If you then want to lever neutral space of the football pitch to vast out opinion, then why don't you go the full hog? If you want to do that and make a sacrifice. That is the full length and breadth of the argument."

Jordan claims if England were not alone in boycotting the tournament in eight months time it would achieve something.

"It would achieve something if they [England] were not alone in doing so", he added.

"If the entire fabric of football rallied against what Qatar represents, then it would achieve something.

"I am not advocating for that, I am simply saying it is very easy to put a t-shirt on and say this is what I think and then move on with whatever you're doing.

"The arguments that Gareth [Southgate] makes about not shopping at Sainsbury's or going to the Shard are silly arguments, because nobody suggesting shopping at Sainsbury's can leaver their platforms to influence other people.

"If you want to influence people, and be the responsibility of being an influencer, which is what footballers want for their benefit of time commercially, and you want to leaver the fact you're in the public domain, leaver it, or don't. Or leave it alone, have your own view on it, but leave the rest alone."