Next time avoid playing loyalty card, Tony Bhoy

OSCAR WILDE had a good line about principles: “I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

Wilde’s feelings on football are unclear, although I somehow doubt his first port of call after release from Reading gaol would have been the Royals’ old Elm Park stadium.

Still, he might have appreciated the behaviour of Tony Mowbray in ditching West Brom for Celtic – a decision which represented not so much a scrapping of his principles as Mowbray paying a known criminal to break in to his own office and empty the contents of his conscience straight into an over-sized paper-shredder.