The event organiser of the Manchester United-Liverpool clash has said that the needless controversy over the trophy devalued the efforts of hardworking people.

A school deputy director on Tuesday filed a fraud complaint with the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) against a former lecturer at a Bangkok university after the school had hired her to arrange a 15-day summer-camp trip to the UK for 30 students in October, but later realised they had been duped.