 Richards also warned fans may boycott the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar unless alcohol is made freely available.The Football Association and the Premier League distanced themselves from Richards remarks, stressing that he was attending the conference in a personal capacity.It emerged from the Hillsborough Independent Panel enquiry in September 2012 that Richards, who was the Chairman of Sheffield Wednesday from March 1990 to February 2000, had refused to put up a memorial at Hillsborough, on legal advice, for the 96 Liverpool supporters that died on 15 April 1989, in the disaster in Hillsborough.