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Doesn't help that so many politicians seem intent on leaving a legacy for people to remember them by.

I'm no expert, but... Encourage Employers to employee local staff. Encourage more virtual meetings and home working. Move further away from a London centric government, civil service and judiciary. Discourage remotely located 'shopping villages' intended to serve wide catchment areas and...

Rather than build a railway why doesn't the government do more to reduce the number of journeys and the average distance travelled?

The connection was undoubtedly an absolute waste of money. I still remember going to look at the connection when it opened and thinking what's the point in building this in the middle of nowhere (I also found out that Mick Coop isn't very good at squash).

I get the sentiment about how the money the club received from Ian Wallace, but the Wallace / Ferguson partnership was already becoming distant history by the time he left for Forest. After the key Wallace / Ferguson partnership season of 77-78 Gordon Milne introduced different attacking...

Yes, you're right. Don't know why I typed Inter!

Payment in suits, that's interesting and says a lot (mainly about Jimmy Hill). I don't think the PFA or an Agent would let Hill get away with that nowadays. Not too sure about the marriage thing - Garry Thompson had been married for a couple of years when he moved (got married at the tail end...

Railway stations cost a lot of money and I am almost certain that having a station at the stadium was a planning requirement, rather than something the club actually wanted to do. Cost is probably why a station got pushed onto the back burner when the council took over the project.

...and when he was saving the Sky Blues he was relegating his 'parent' club (Birmingham City).

He rejected a new contract to play in Dave Sexton's team. Sold for £280,000 to Everton.

We swapped Tommy English with Leicester for Jim Melrose during the 82-83 season. Melrose was sold to Celtic in the summer of 83 for £100,000. Tommy English was already drifting downwards when he left us, so he was probably worth less than the money we got for Melrose. Garry Thompson was sold...

1. My mistake, you claimed "... players all declaring they would leave at the end of the season" But that's a lie, isn't it? 2. Hormantschuk - according to CCFPA "Peter received a serious knee injury in the reserves which effectively ended his first class career though he had a few non...

You really must stop trying to twist what people say. 1. I named Singleton in a list of professional players who stayed at the club after you claimed ALL the players had left. You were wrong - get over yourself. 2. Hormantchuck didn't play under any other Coventry manager because his career...

The final alignment of the road hasn't be agreed. It is being used to help in the construction of HS2, so by definition it needs to be fairly close to the new rail line. Earlier in the year there was a WDC led consultation exercise to collect information that might influence the alignment...

It might even be worse as it is likely there will be fewer trains going between Coventry and Leamington than between Coventry and Nuneaton. The development at Coventry railway station is supposed to include a bay platform (a dead end) that will be for trains heading north towards Nuneaton -...

I agree with you, but the justification for no station there is number of HS2 stations is low to reduce the time lost in slowing down and speeding up. I fear Coventry is going to turn into a rail backwater (which makes that Friargate development near the railway station seem even more absurd)

I didn't, I included him in a list of players that stayed on at the club after Grendel claimed all the players left. Grendel just picked on Martin Singleton, like he singles out and derides other individuals.

Garry Thompson played 23 games and made 2 more appearances as substitute - 25 appearances and he scored 5 goals Steve Whitton played 41 games and made 3 more appearances as substitute - 44 appearances and he scored 13 goals Mark Hateley played 38 games - 38 appearances and he scored 11 goals...

The rat? Of course it was...

If only Hill had kept the investment in a team in Detroit things might not have been so bad. What Hill did was move Detroit Express to Washington DC and renamed it Washington Diplomats (a previous Washington team had also used this name, but they'd gone out of business). It was after the team...