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Watching someone be hung, drawn and quartered was once a favoured medieval past-time and has long since been banished to the history books.
Football clubs have spent donkeys years building up well-earned reputations as money-grabbing organisations who will do anything to fleece an extra pound or £100 out of supporters and sponsors.
This latest transfer window is nearing an end on Monday with Manchester City involved in probably the two headline deals so far – the £14m signing of Craig Bellamy, which did go ahead, and the telephone directory deal for Kaka, which didn’t.
Brentford manager Andy Scott is far from being alone in his lack of love for football’s transfer window.
For all those Brentford fans expecting their television hoodoo to continue at Havant & Waterlooville on Sunday there was more than one pleasant surprise.
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