Which kind of makes you thankful that we haven't gone down the route of American sports and called ourselves the 'Everton Sparrowhawks'* or something else we'd be well in the soup!
On a more serious note, and to keep to the point of the article, Leeds are now calling for Premier League clubs that 'poach' young stars to be docked points.
This time it was Leeds chief executive Shaun Harvey that has weighed in with his views as he clearly feels that Leeds were shortchanged at Monday's tribunal that decreed Everton must pay £600,000 up fornt for the services of Luke Garbutt.
Harvey said: “Compensation awards, we feel, are no longer a sufficient deterrent – and perhaps now is the time to start considering points deductions.”
He added: “We need to arrive at a system whereby in any transfer there is a willing buyer, willing seller and willing player. If we’d had an option we would have chosen to keep the player. We feel we were deprived of the opportunity to develop the player to his full potential.
Furthermore: “We now appeal to the football authorities to mount a combined review of the registration system in place domestically to provide further financial assurances for clubs who lose players to predator clubs.”
Which is all well and good but did anyone from Leeds complain when Aston Villa paid £8 million for Fabian Delph this summer?
Delph is just two years older than Garbutt yet, because he has played 40 games for Leeds, they can command a ridiculously inflated fee for nothing more than a player that is, at best, a good prospect.
So, far from being on a crusade to stop tyrannical Premier League clubs stripping the lower leagues of their best players (something which has gone on since the game's inception), for Leeds United, it's all about the money.
They are hurting because Premier League clubs like Everton have to be more wiley in the transfer market and are identifying players much earlier in their careers.
Give Garbutt another year at Leeds and he'd have some first team appearances under his belt and they'd be able to charge an astronomical fee for him and we'd hear no more of it!
And Everton signing Garbutt is, in essence, no different to Manchester United taking an 18-year-old Wayne Rooney off our hands.
Everyone knew what an amazing prospect the lad was but, whilst at Everton, he had played two full seasons in the Premier League and had been called up to the England squad, hence we could command a fee of £20 million for the teenager.
Had Garbutt been able to reach those heights at Leeds then they would be able to command a fee in excess of the £1.5 million they are potentially going to receive from Everton, all things being well.
Which seems like a fair price for a player with little or no Football League experience and, let's not forget, at Garbutt's age, James Vaughan was becoming the Premier League's youngest ever goalscorer, and Jack Rodwell had played for Everton in a UEFA Cup tie.
And, two season's before Vaughan became the Premier League's youngest goalscorer, a 16-year-old Wayne Rooney had set that record whilst playing for Everton and a few weeks after Rooney set the record, a 16-year-old Leeds player, James Milner, took the record for himself.
Again, no eyebrows were raised by Leeds United when Newscastle stumped up £3.6 million for the teenage Milner.
And Leeds themselves, the club that now want Premier League 'predator' clubs to be docked points for buying up teenage starlets, took a 19-year-old Lee Bowyer from Charlton Athletic for £2.8 million in 1996.
It's clearly a case of Leeds feeling the pinch from years of financial mismanagement, a spectacular fall from grace and the grim realisation that they are now a lower league selling club.
*clearly, to keep with a theme here, our lovable neighbours would be called the Liverpool Shitehawks!