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There's nowt wrong with it, as long as you're not pretending that the club are putting themselves out in a big way to do it.

Money going to charity is a good thing. I'm just not convinced that this is the selfless act that it at first appears to be. In fact, I'm not sure that this actually costs the club anything - the generosity here is primarily from the supporters. The club get rid of some end-of-stock shirts...

She won't be there because she has no interest in football. Our club is simply a vehicle for her to make money (or possibly, dump debt). I'd have no issue with the making money side of it, if SISU hadn't shown themselves to be so spectacularly inept at doing it with regard to our club. If...

I'm kind of confused by the OP. SISU started to negotiate for the Higgs share and then pulled out, supposedly owing the charity £30,000. Hence the impending court case. Both sides are now seemingly committed to court - it seems unlikely that either would trust the other sufficiently to begin...

Absolutely. When Turner first started playing for us I thought he was a liability and would never make it - was I ever wrong! Hopefully it will be the same with JC. He definitely makes mistakes, but it seems his heart is in it. It would be great to see him do as well as Turner, even better...

In a city where a fair proportion of the population is reduced to needing food banks, I wouldn't be quite so confident that children aren't going hungry for reasons other than their parents fecklessness. Appreciate it's easier to write it off with the standard Daily Mail approach because...

McGrath was, and remains, my absolute hero. The definitive midfield destroyer; extremely disciplined, incredibly fit, and utterly fearless. And he did it all at the top level of English football, holding his own against some very good players. With all respect to Clarke, whom I've seen stick...

They're not just set up to support deprived children - read again. The objects of the Charity are: (a) Such charitable purposes as the Trustees may select which shall benefit wholly or mainly the inhabitants of the area within 25 miles of the centre of Coventry; Presumably supporting the...

Erm... ACL never paid a dividend. I can't see that the Higgs trust have made a penny out of the Arena. When they did bail CCFC out, and covered off the half of ACL that the club couldn't afford to buy, they still put in place a formula so that the club could purchase it back at a reasonable...

They would liquidate the club rather than sell it? What an odd thing to do. They can dump all of their debt in the club, go into administration, and still sell the club and make a few bob. These are people that would push their grannies over for a fiver - do you think they're daft enough to...

If you're pretty stupid, then yes I guess it is. Apart from the stuff that actually breaks the law. Ultimately though, if you stitch enough people up, then no one trusts you and you end up out of business. Hmm, there's a thought eh.... Anyway, if CCC call in the loan, it just means that the...

It's pretty huge if you don't have a purchaser willing to buy. Answer the question mate. I've answered yours. When did SISU ever propose buying ACL.

You seem very taken in by Timmy. I'm sure it could be sold, if the price was right and the owner willing to sell. But the council doesn't own ACL, which is something that you and O'Connor overlooked, and SISU couldn't even negotiate the much more straightforward purchase of the Higgs share of...

Ms Sinclaire said no more taxpayers money should be wasted on the Ricoh saga. I agree, so why waste money on a valuation when the other side wants something you can't offer (the unencumbered freehold). No more taxpayers money should be wasted on Ms Sinclaire. Councillors and Council Officers...

Really. Have they ever said that? When? Where?

It's not a smokescreen - it's a contract. And it's a complex contract with a number of layers in the form of those sub-leases, to go back to the OP. Tim & Labo pretending that it can simply be ignored, and a deal magically done for the whole Ricoh unecumbered, now that is a smokescreen. Not...

Appreciate what you're saying, but I still don't think £1.2m was an extortionate rent for a £50/60m stadium. An interest only loan for that amount would probably have been at least as much if not higher. The enormous error was selling the income streams, but by then we were so against the wall...

Me too, Jack - me too. The bitter irony, if the council hadn't got involved then maybe we'd still be at HR and in a much better place. (Although we'd obviously would either have been renting it at £1m/season (iirc), or trying to buy back the freehold from a private developer, having sold it...

I'd agree with most of this except the 'took advantage' part. The council paid for the land, and built the stadium. Then they offered fifty percent of it back to the club at a frankly remarkable price. The club both sold that 50%, and the rights to the income streams. And now they seem to...

It's not just the sub-leases. There's the not insignificant fact of the 40+ year lease that ACL hold. ACL aren't the Council. If the Council broke the lease, ACL could sue the Council.