FOOTBALL PLUNGED INTO NEW CASH crisis: a star player has admitted to being entirely unmotivated by money. Agents across the nation will be aghast. “Cash never came into it with me, never has done,” Steve Staunton said, explaining his decision to join Coventry City after their match with Walsall on Saturday. “If that had been the case I’d have stayed at Liverpool and sat on my backside. I felt (Coventry) were ambitious . . . I know Gary (McAllister) very well, his thoughts on the game are similar to my own.”
In different circumstances Staunton and Paul Merson might have lined up against each other earlier that day in the Barclaycard Premiership, for Aston Villa and Portsmouth. Or they could have been team-mates, since Walsall