WASTE OF POLICE TIME

Along, I imagine, with all those other countless victims of car smashing and theft who over the years have parked near Anfield or Goodison Park and then been greeted with a yawn by the desk sergeant, I will be severely exercised if the Merseyside police waste a nanosecond of time on the fatuous complaints raised against Roy Keane and several of his team-mates by the fans of Everton.

Amusingly enough, in a sick little way, a first review of the film of Saturday's game reveals only that a certain section of the Everton crowd made it their business to taunt several United players, and with no great restraint on their language. They pay their money and have the choice of behaving like genuine sports fans or a bunch of maladjusted adolescents. When they take the second course they should not expect the reinforcement of the law.