Selective myopia is rampant at every club

THEY’VE got previous in that there London. Great train robbers, artful dodgers and now Mad Frankie Arnesen (allegedly).

That incessant claptrap about Scousers only camouflages their own light-fingered liberties. We’re not like that oop north, oh no. Flat caps, whippets, honesty and fair play are the order of the day.

Okay, that isn’t strictly true. Still it’s nice when you can hide behind other people’s foibles occasionally. The Eduardo and Kakuta ‘scandals’ have no doubt provoked a similar reaction from our former Lancastrian allies in Trafford: uh-oh, are we next? Diving has always been here. Even the sainted Dalglish fashioned his own little rep back in the day. It was John Barnes who perfected today’s unwritten law that if you reach the ball first then fall over, it’s a penalty.