Why ’Pool have no right to cry betrayal

IT’S good to be despised again. Enemies of football once more. Ruining the game, the axis of evil etc. Funny how we didn’t hear these phrases when City were buying anything that moved.

If any other club had signed Torres, it would have been perceived as a major coup, a signing of utmost significance, a statement of intent. But instead we are reading pieces littered with phrases such as a “desperate measure”, “betrayal”, “Torres’s true colours” and “classless”.

The hatred coming out of Merseyside, too, is just so utterly predictable, wholly pathetic and so totally Liverpool.