The Liverpool tapping-up scandal was dramatically reignited on Tuesday after they were accused of submitting a falsified document to the Premier League when trying to lure a 12-year-old schoolboy from Stoke City.
The Anfield club are facing imminent legal action from the unnamed boy, now 13, and his family, having failed to make amends for leaving both him unable to play academy football and his parents in thousands of pounds of debt more than three months after Telegraph Sport first revealed their plight.
Father and son completed the document on September 2 last year, three days before the latter began the new school year at his private school, the fees for which Liverpool had agreed to pay until he was 16.
The club directed the pair not to date their signatures, an instruction the father ignored to ensure the moment was accurately recorded.
The next time the family saw the document - after it had been submitted to the Premier League - all the signatures on it were dated September 21, including the fathers, beneath which a 1 had been inserted after his initial 2.
Anyway, 24 goals in 34 league games - that's a really good result and he's only 24yo. Really weird.
