Dimitar Berbatov for Manchester Utd (vs Blackburn Rovers), 31st October 2009

[this is a cross-post from here, but it's making me really angry and it seems relevant to include it here too....apologies]

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There's a bit in Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" where Captain Black runs something he calls the "Glorious Loyalty Oath Campaign", where everyone in the squadron finds themselves forced to sign oaths pledging their loyalty in order to get absolutely anything or everything:

"Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it.