If you're citing the famous Backroom maxim, you're gloriously, deliriously misunderstanding its meaning. Were I to put you into play, I would be playing the man; by pointing out that your source does you no credit, I'm playing the ball, which you helpfully lobbed from the sidelines. You put the ball into play, I gave it a little tap.
And as I said, Harnden's strategy involves putting about fourteen different points into play, almost all of them arguable and/or spurious. Pick one and we can go at it like gentlemen; I refuse to respond to scattershot, incoherent arguments, beyond pointing out that they are, in fact, scattershot and incoherent.
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