This false evidence . . . stung me to the quick, and raised an indignation scarce conceivable.

By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.

I was a complete computer geek in high school, but I get out a lot more now.

What fuelish fancies! The crooks have wrung such abundant profits from the coupons that no prison sentence could be long enough, as one courtroom bystander put it.