It’s long been suspected in the red half of Merseyside that Spurs scouts have been watching Liverpool scouts for years, but the truth runs far far deeper than anyone has previously thought.

A former Tottenham scout has revealed the truth that will SHOCK Liverpool fans and no doubt have them tweet ‘Get your own Scouts’ more than ever before.

“It started when we were at a Fulham match” our inside source told us. “I was sat next to a scout from Liverpool, one of their top boys. I asked who he was watching. He asked me who I was watching. I said ‘No, you first’, but he was having none of it and said ‘No, you first’. So I went back to him and said ‘No, you tell me first, I promise I will tell you after, please?’ This went on for most of the first half”

“At half time the Liverpool fella went to get a Bovril, but left his clipboard. I’m not proud of myself for what I did, but I had to look. On the sheet of A4 it just said ‘DEMPSEY’. It was even underlined. At this point I knew. I worked out why he was there”

“I’d never heard of Dempsey. Apparently he had been playing at Fulham for a while, but he’d slipped under our radar. I quickly got on the blower to Levy and told him about this Clint fella and we agreed that we should make him our #1… And we had to act quick, before the whole world heard about this Clint Dempsey”

But it wasn’t just a sneaky look at a clipboard. A young IT whizz was employed by Tottenham scouts to hack Liverpool computers and find out their targets.

“Liverpool had been buying unknown gems for years and we wanted part of it.”

“I was round a mates house and I saw his son sat in front of a computer with lists of literally thousands and thousands of footballers – all right there in front of him! It had all of this information – how many goals they had scored, how injury prone and how loyal they were, even if any previous injuries were Red Inj or Orange Inj… everything we could ever wish to know! This database was like gold to us!”

“I asked him, quietly, if he could find out who Liverpool were scouting and he leant forward, rolled his eyes, took a deep breath, and muttered ‘yes’.”

“Within minutes I had discovered that Liverpool were after somebody called David Villa. I’d never heard of him, but after a few clicks of a mouse the spotty 14 year old discovered that apparently this David bloke had won a World Cup! Well, as you can imagine, I knew he was the one.”

“I quietly asked the lads to do some more research and we discovered he’d been playing for some village team in Spain, Barcelona or something”.

“We’ve sent out a few feelers and hope to get him before Liverpool do. Our scouting network is now like a team of highly trained ninjas. If a Liverpool scout even breathes, we know about it”.

Whether Liverpool or Tottenham scouts win this war will remain to be seen, but whatever happens Liverpool fans are not pleased and a summer of tweeting ‘Get Your Own Scouts’ awaits.

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