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Now that the Suarez affair has dragged football into ultimate ignominy – the worry of a bank that its image is being tarnished by association with Liverpool Football Club (it's a bit like Al Capone complaining about the exorbitant cost of a glass of rye) – you have to wonder if the reputation of the English game has much further to fall.

Unfortunately, with the return of Carlos Tevez to the club and the city on which he has heaped so much distaste and mockery, it is showing the potential. There are compromises and compromises, of course, but this surely is a case of stooping very low indeed to conquer.

The idea of Tevez wearing again the colours of the Manchester City he chose to abandon on that pivotal night in Munich last September, and whose manager, Roberto Mancini, he now declares "treated him like a...

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