United we stand in our travails

IT’S been a week dominated by news of a tidal wave of toxic red sludge sweeping through benighted streets.

But enough of the protesting Scousers – how are those poor Hungarians doing? We shouldn’t laugh. As I write, various ageing Suits are in the London High Court battling over the future of Liverpool FC. I haven’t been this gripped by a footballing court case since Fergie and his ex-mates from Coolmore were going head to head.

Yet as we United fans tantalise ourselves with the possibilities of nine-point deductions, six-month legal actions and generalised civil warfare, the question poses itself: who’s really worse off, Liverpool or United? After all, there’s every chance that, with one legal bound, the Scousers could soon be free, heading once more for sunlit uplands.