Soccerex: All Mouth?

Mark Murphy spent all week peering through the windows of the Soccerex European Forum in Manchester, and found that, even in these financially straitened times, there were plenty of people prepared to part with over £800 in the pursuit of making even more money from football.

To judge by newspaper and website reports (and without a delegates fee of £775 plus VAT to hand, I had to), the recent Soccerex European forum in Manchester was a rather panicky gathering of the clans.