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I'll have to let you do the digging, but at the time of the Wasps deal the council claimed that Wasps would bring millions of pounds into the City's economy. Even it they were making it up a bit to justify the deal (they were), then it's obvious that the football club would be worth at least as...

After the cup game at Wembley I witnessed some horrendous racial abuse of a security guard by some knuckle dragging Neanderthal egged on by a few of his mates. All of them were Cov fans. I've seldom felt as angry, but like everyone else around, and there were a lot of people about, I did...

Wouldn't have been much point in catching it after it had smashed I do hope you're not trying to diminish my greatest ever achievement, that would be mean. :)

Just the other day I opened the cupboard in the kitchen, and a glass that had been resting against the door tumbled out. Quick as a flash, I caught it, left-handed, in a pinch grip on the top, just before it smashed against the worktop. I turned around, cool as you like, and not a single...

Not for the first time, I find myself wondering why accountants make accounts so bloody obscure. It's to keep yourselves employed, isn't it OSB? :)

It's not a mistake mate, imho, it's entirely deliberate. SISU genuinely believe that there's a chance of winning this, and in truth I think there still is until the whole legal process has been exhausted. It's a very remote chance I suspect, but it's enough to keep them digging away at it...

It's funny that, because right up until they sold the ground in secret to Wasps the Coventry taxpayer was told that the ground was doing fine. Hell we even put another 14m of our cash into it. (Voted for in another meeting they wanted to keep secret). So don't give me all this bollocks about...

I am a Coventry ratepayer, well Council Tax at least, and I'd politely disagree. If selling to Wasps damages the local football team significantly, as it clearly is, then that's hugely disadvantageous to the city from both a commercial and a cultural point of view. And that's before even...

I'm not convinced that if Wasps want to be fully accepted in the community that they can afford to upset those who support CCFC, I know a fair number of city fans who go to Wasps. It's one reason why the PR wars have started. A point worth making as well perhaps, the action is against the...

Entirely fair, ISB, SISU have been at the root of our woes and I'd never dispute that, but it's the Council's deal with Wasps that will really stuff the club forever. And regardless of all of that, there's nothing stopping Wasps doing a short-term deal. I'm sure they'd like the legal stuff to...

If you're going to assign blame, then I'd start with the people who sold to the rugby franchise without putting something in place to guarantee that the club would have the right to a deal at the stadium. You know, the ones who said that the critical part of the deal was that the football club...

You are now allowed one post about Wasps. Use it wisely :)

Fwiw it sounds like a proper end to end game on the radio. Crowd sounds good too...

Personally speaking, I wouldn't bank on the EFL to stop us moving out of Cov again, they're utterly spineless.

I know Orca of old, and he's a top bloke and a city fan through-and-through. I might not agree with everything he says, but this ad hominem stuff is ridiculous. If we want an open forum where differing opinions are tested then let's give people a chance to state them without calling them...

Hi OSB, there are only two possible strands to further action then, as I read it. 1) Damage to reputation. This is covered by defamation and I think SISU would have to find some kind of statement made by one of the parties within the last year, that would cause their reputation serious harm...

Absolutely mate, but what grounds are there for a case? There's no breach of contract between SISU and Wasps and if the JR goes the Council's way then they've been proven to have acted within their powers. The civil court can't re-judge the JR, that's a specific decision that will have already...

The current litigation is about trying to prove that the Council didn't take a legitimate decision when it sold to Wasps. If upheld in court or on appeal, then I'd guess SISU would seek damages from the Council. Because Wasps might be impacted by the decision (I think the suggested remedy was...

Civil courts can't award fines, that's for criminal courts. They can award damages, but I'm struggling to see on what grounds in this circumstance. Wasps haven't broken any contract with SISU that I know of, and there's no obligation in law for them to deal with SISU for (say) a new rental...

And that to me is exactly the issue. A lot of us lived through the eighties where the dickheads almost ruined the game and then the fences went up. We know how that ended. There's no excuse for going on the pitch like this. None. There's a significant minority of coked/pissed up arseholes...