Get Money Stay True part 2

A piece i've just seen but too late to put in the main post is this, from Goal.com (Thanks to 101greatgoals.com whose round-up i quite often use to aid my sifting of stories and which round-up turned up later than usual today making this extra post necessary). It's a good piece looking at the business of "tapping up" players and our history of it. It's all worth reading but the killer quote for me though is this:

The club refusing to be sellers - for example, Manchester United - may therefore find themselves at a disadvantage. On the other hand, they do have unrestricted access to the moral high ground, and usually rush to occupy it with evangelical zeal.

I like this - everyone does it, everyone plays one side or the other (it's like diving - when an opposition player does it it's cheating, when "our" player does it it's being professional), and, after Ramos's comments yesterday about not being one of the big four, it would seem Spurs are a little upset that no one thinks of them as a big club, leading to this frustrated outburst.

I think we can all agree that Liverpool and Benitez have acted abominably in the whole affair though...