Most expensive Tweet ever

Before people get too carried away feeling sorry for babbling Ryan Babel who has to cough up a £10,000 fine for tweeting a pic of a referee in a Man Utd shirt, let's get some perspective.

Babel's tweet was 13 words and 49 characters depicting Howard Webb as being a Man Utd fan. The fine works out costing him £770 per word or roughly £204 per keystroke.

While this could be dubbed 'the most expensive tweet ever' and bad judgement, let's not forget Liverpool signing the former 'hot prospect' was an even worse and more costly decision.

To throw a few statistics out there since signing for the reds for over £10million the hotly touted attacking winger Ryan Babel has scored a measly 12 goals for the club.

In the four years since his arrival, the player who was once dubbed 'the next Henry' has cost the club £833,333 per goal – that's excluding his wages.

Babel's lucrative weekly pay packet has been reported to be around the mark of £60,000-a-week.

If that were true, Babel would have been paid just under £6 a minute from the club, for every day and night, for the last four years.

The player, who reportedly refused a move to Birmingham last year because of his high wage demands, has spent just under four hours (228 minutes) on the pitch this season.

This would cost Liverpool £4,511 for each minute that Babel has spent in a red shirt.

Maybe it is Babel, not Howard Webb, who should be running around the pitch wearing a black and white strip.