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But you don't know if any of what you write about is true. You appear to want to believe it to be true, but that doesn't mean it is. I have links with the club that go back decades and that are highly credible. I also know someone who formerly worked for the club and is a well known Walter...

They don't seem to be trying to make a career out of it...

But your figures are a complete guess, aren't they. How about I say we pay £50 a year rent at St Andrews and were offered a deal for £500,050 at the Ricoh - then I can claim the club is half a million quid a year better off at St Andrews. How about I then keep repeating the same bollocks...

Embrace the internet and it's search tools, they are your friend.

It is nice in the Channel Islands at this time of year. I understand that on a clear night you can see Orion.

One should never confuse inability to manage a business with ability to line one's pockets.

I think the answer to your question lies in opaque jiggery-pokery. After all, do you really believe a multimillionaire member of the ruling elite would have put up with losing out by so much as a penny?

As you don't know the details of the deals, you have no idea whether we are better off paying rent at the white elephant or St Andrews or not. What you do know is the club doesn't have to bear all of the lion's share of the cost of maintaining a stadium that is generating little income.

Now £430. Interesting shirt as it has an embroidered badge, number 16 on the reverse and a shirt sponsor on the front. The shirt is embroidered. The first team shirts were embroidered and the replicas had a heat applied printed badge. The shirt for sale is '16'. 1986 was before 'squad...

You have missed the clubs that are currently just above us in the table that are pretty much in freefall. Cardiff and Huddersfield have both been performing badly and either could easily end up in the bottom three.

People should realise that if we go back to the Ricoh it will cause problems with our future Champions League campaigns. UEFA rules for the Champions League say: "For natural pitches, the height of the grass may not, in principle, exceed 30mm and the entire playing surface must be cut to the...

The pitch at Wembley was in such poor condition for the 1970 FA Cup Final because the Horse of the Year show had been staged there the week before. The Wembley game was a draw and because the pitch was so poor the replay was held at Old Trafford.

I don't think he was particularly liked by opposition fans when he was a player, either. I suppose it was a time when the 'dark arts' played more of a role in the game.

Pretty much. Cantwell didn't produce a decent league finish until 1969-70 (6th and qualification for Europe), the next season we were down to 10th and the 1971-2 season he left in March (after we lost to Leeds and we hadn't won in the league since New Years Day).

Interesting stuff. I wonder if Cantwell was considered for the Man Utd job when Busby's successor (Wilf McGuiness) was sacked (December 1970). By the end of 1970 Noel had already done some good work at the Sky Blues and should have looked a good prospect.

I think we were lucky to get Cantwell as Aston Villa really wanted him as assistant manager. I think Malcolm Allison may have recommended Cantwell to Cov and suggested to him that it might be a good idea to come here (Cov were supposed to have offered Allison the job before Cantwell took it).

If you look at a mini-league of the teams that eventually ended up in the bottom six positions in the league (Stoke, Sheffield Wednesday, Cov, Sheffield United and Fulham) we were third bottom after 10 games (when Noel Cantwell took over): Sheffield Wednesday - 16 pts Stoke - 12 pts Wolves - 11...

I agree, win percentages and statistics like possession during games were much less important in those days. I just wondered Jimmy might have 'claimed' those games if we had won more of them.

Thinking about it, Jimmy Hill may have sought to perpetuate the idea he was 'General Manager' rather than 'Team Manager' as the win rate of 18.18% achieved in those 11 games is terrible. It certainly looks bad against the 44.33% win rate he achieved in the non First Division games.

The map isn't fine, it's wrong. By overlaying the Very Light Rail (VLR) map and the Warwickshire County Council (WCC) Option 3 map on to a road map (Michelin) you can see how ridiculous what you say is. The VLR map is appalling quality (it is skewed from north and some of the existing road and...