Bet your bottom dollar there’s only 100 Uniteds

GREETINGS from a most agreeable sunny spot off the west African coast, to which I have retreated during this current international break, courtesy of my now-emptied BetFair account. (“Put your money where you mouth is,” sneered email critics: Well, glad that I did — see previous columns!).

No proper football to report, just the witless Farrago of Ingerlund, which doesn’t qualify. And let’s hope they don’t either. But nature abhors a vacuum, and so it was that politicians rushed to fill it over the weekend.

Ten million “News of the World” readers on Sunday were treated to a canny full-page assault on the Glazers, courtesy of the Supporters Trust, who cunningly have roped British government minister Gerry Sutcliffe into the everlasting battle with football’s exploitative, monopolising owners.