Still on the subject of rail (sort of), the Dudley test track (for the Coventry VLR system which is allegedly linked to any new stadium project's ongoing viability(?)) appears to be moving along nicely...
It's virtually all loans-access though, and about 0.75m max of that to Champ clubs (and as far as I can see, about 23m between the several hundred clubs below the top 24).
Cov have already lost around a million in income since March, and without crowds (ok, some, but income will still be...
Used to be in the Stag and Pheasant most weekday lunchtimes in the early eighties. Sounds like it's improved a bit now (was full of twats like me back then).
Decent chap, yes, even if he was a catalyst in the moneyfication (no, probably not a word 😉) of rugby.
I understand he initially tried to get heavily involved financially with Worcs cricket, but was knocked back, and the rest is history.
A bit 'rugger' for many on here, but Cecil Duckworth has passed also. The guy that sold his Worcester boiler company to Bosch and used the proceeds to buy Worcester's way up to the Premiership.
The essence of how sport has become just a business.
I know nowt (and care as much) about F1.
However, an old friend of mine from back in the 70s was an engineer on the F1 tv programming (indeed, supposedly acknowledged as one of the main men in it).
Sadly he died very unexpectedly the other day, and I'm led to believe that there was going to be...