When Brendan Rodgers heard about a sportsman spraying an attractive Chinese girl with champagne, the Liverpool manager was probably relieved to learn it was Lewis Hamilton and not Raheem Sterling.
To say it has not been a good week for Sterling is an understatement. The Liverpool forward may not know who his friends are, but he certainly knows now that someone he thought was a pal is, in fact, a disloyal, money-grabbing rat.
Sterling was caught on camera inhaling nitrous oxide — so-called laughing gas — from a balloon at his home in Southport. Apart from the fact it is a brainless thing to do, Sterling was obviously happy for someone to film it on a camera phone.