Quote of the day

"We direct that the Club should pay Mr Keegan’s costs on an indemnity basis given the manner in which it conducted this litigation: its defence on the primary liability issue was, in our view, wholly without merit and it chose to make entirely unfounded allegations against Mr Keegan."

The damning verdict detailed in the supplementary award of the club v Keegan tribunal (available in full here, which has ordered the former to pay all of the latter's costs, estimated by some to be as much as £1.5m. So, Mike, if you set out to blacken Keegan's name, it certainly backfired, didn't it?