10 days ago, there was a blaze of publicity for the story about Gibraltar-based Victor Chandler International accepting sizeable bets from a number of Premiership managers and players. Then, Mr Clean, Max Clifford, scuttles off to the High Court and all media immediately drop the item.
Why? Why can't we know who these individuals are? Why is the High Court protecting them? Why has the sinister Mr Clifford been working for Chandler for the last few years?
There seems to be an increasing number of people who are above the law in Britain - we welcome Berezovsky yet chase out political refugees. We hassle individual players for minor social indiscretions and yet bury stories about alleged corruption in the upper echelons of the game.
It was a great game football...
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