Butters spoke to How-Do last month about the brief that his team had received from the controversial ex-Prime Minister of Thailand, noting at the time that it was a short term contract to do with football issues and, essentially, how they were impacting on his client’s reputation in the North West.

Now that these ‘issues’ (which it's fair to say largely revolved around the dismissal of Mr Eriksson) have faded from the front pages to the back it appears as though BP’s brief has come to an end.

“I’ve seen something in the papers that said we were ‘ditched’,” explained Butters, “but that’s absolutely not the case.”

“We have fulfilled the terms and objectives of the contract, which as I told you before was short term, and dealt with it successfully.

“I believe someone else has now been brought in to advise Dr Thaksin, but that’s a different brief.”

That someone else is Phil Hall, the ex-editor of the News of the World and a genuine power-player in the sports media world, with clients such as Chelsea, West Ham and Portsmouth. His brief is believed to be broader than BP’s specific ‘fire-fighting’ task.

Butters added that his agency had now been advising Shinawatra “for about a year, on and off” and was “always on hand” for future assignments should they be called upon.

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