It has been, all in all, rather a sobering few days for English football. Look at what the past week has revealed of the landscape of our national sport and all you see is betrayal and deception and men who are sorry excuses for leaders and dark valleys where only greed grows and a vast plain where self-interest hunts down anything that moves.
Rick Parry, chairman of the English Football League, and Greg Clarke, chairman of the Football Association, fighting, biting and squealing like ferrets in a sack, squabbling over who betrayed who and when. Manchester United and Liverpool, the main protagonists in the doomed Project Big Picture, staring at their feet and wondering, if they keep quiet for long enough, whether we’ll forget any of this ever happened.