Since the Daily Mail reported that Red Bull is stalking England in search of a football club to add to its global soccer family, there have been two simultaneous approaches to forcing the rumor into retreat.
Sky Sports took the most direct route: a straightforward rebuttal. Unfortunately, Sky's rumor-killing story was as thinly-sourced as the Mail's original rumor, so it was not perhaps as effective as it hoped to be.
Hence the need for the second approach: the football clubs of England will painstakingly eliminate themselves, one by one.