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As soon as this business with someone called Robinho became known, News 24 (or whatever it now calls itself) stopped reporting anything else on the strip across the bottom of the screen. So much for credit crunches, or wars, or other such trivia.

But I don’t know what is remotely newsworthy about this. Robinho appears to be a Premiership footballer. He is therefore doing exactly what the Premership’s super-rich owners and sponsors, and necessarily rather well-heeled season ticket holders, pay him to do, namely acting as a working-class Uncle Tom:

“Oh, look at the chav boys. They can barely read, and would never dream of actually doing so. They are chronic alcoholics and cocaine addicts. They have eye-wateringly poor taste, and are brash in displaying their decidedly new-found wealth. They beat their wives (if “wives” be the word), consort with prostitutes, and commit sexual assaults in nightclubs. But they are so very, very good at entertaining us by means of an ultimately pointless, purely physical activity.”

Both sides are equally despicable, like a prostitute and her client.