Someone has got to say something to Slaughter and May about the conflicts it is getting into in the football world. Sporting conflicts, that is, not legal ones.

While it is well known that corporate supremo Nigel Boardman, an avid Arsenal fan and adviser to the club, has recently started advising arch-rivals Tottenham, it was surely taking it too far when last week Slaughters issued a press release celebrating his work advising both clubs.