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.

Yanks a lot

Liverpool season-ticket holders could be forgiven for trading their 'Yanks Out' scarves for 'Yanks a lot' ones this week in a shocking twist of fate.After pleading for a rescue outlet to save them from the depths of American debt and despair, their saviour has come in the unlikely form of the Boston Red Sox owners.

In a symbolic gesture to let off steam and to draw publicity to their cause, a handful of fans stood outside Anfield and burned the American flag only a matter of weeks ago.

But now cigar-chuffing millionaire investor John W Henry is at the forefront of the club, the only positive is that surely things can only get better?

Legal appeal pending, chairman Martin Broughton has came out today and pledged it is not a case of 'out of the frying pan' and 'into the fire' for Liverpool Football Club.

While at the same time, in a season which saw Britan's most successful football club plummet into the relegation zone, fans are understandably once bitten twice shy.

The new investors said: “Our objective is to stabilise the club and ultimately return Liverpool FC to its rightful place in English and European football, successfully competing for and winning trophies.”

To many fans, including myself, this sounds awfully familiar.

However if Henry's bid is finalised and given the seal of approval by RBS and the Premier League, then Hicks and Gillett will walk away £140million out of pocket.

For Liverpool fans going the derby on Saturday, it might be worth asking around to see if the Evertonians have any spare American flags from last year.