It seems Bank of England governor Mervyn King?s love of football is catching on at the UK?s central bank.
He used football imagery last summer when the UK government threatened to change the way it measured inflation in preparation for possible euro entry.
Switching from the retail price index to the consumer price index, which excludes house prices, would be ?as if David Beckham had taken a shot on goal only to see someone had moved the posts?, King said.
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