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Apologies, but no, the council can't dissolve ACL. They do not have a controlling interest, and ACL is a separate legal entity. If the Council and Higgs agreed to wind up ACL, I suppose it could happen. Why would they though, both parties have a significant investment in what is supposedly a...

Bingo. That's as good an explanation of it as I've seen anywhere. As expected, it's turned out not just to be about the freehold. It's now about the 'unencumbered' freehold - i.e. the council would have to break the lease with ACL, or somehow wind ACL up. Neither of those things is possible...

The key part of this, to my mind, is that CCFC never bought the land - just the option to buy the land. That option was about to expire when the council stepped in. Why did it need to step in? Because CCFC ran out of money. If the council didn't step in the whole thing dies before it's...

You're quite right in one respect, valuations of this type don't come cheap. I don't see why the Council need to do one though. They've invited bids, prospective purchasers are presumably free to conduct their own valuations and make an offer. The ball is in SISU's court now. The council...

Entirely possible that Clarke's half-brother is Chinese. One in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother Ho Cha Chu. I think it's Colin. :) With...

Just to go back to the planning issues for Exhall. SISU's project is ultimately for a 25,000 seater-stadium, so presumably they'll want to make sure that they get planning permission for something that size. In itself, that makes things harder. Worse though, far worse than that, they've said...

Possibly, but given they've already been called on their 'advanced discussions with landowners and councils' and found wanting, it's kind of hard to believe they're telling the truth this time. All of the cards are against them at Exhall - previous planning rejection at the highest level...

It's good work, but where's the hill. You've got to have a hill! ;)

Spot on with regard to the planning stuff. The appeal was turned down by the Secretary of State in Nov 2013. http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2013/november/pickles-rejects-coventry-green-belt-marina-and-housing-scheme/ You can read the full report here, if you're really bored...

Absolutely - although even then the FOI isn't actually asking for disclosure of the site. I think it would be hard to make the case that the public finding out that SISU have had talks about a development in the general area would impact any commercial agreement - especailly given that SISU...

"ahah what a woman". Seriously mate, get a yourself a girlfriend, a life, leave the wind-ups to the people who are good at it, and leave the intelligent arguments to the grown ups. Anyway I'll end this now, I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.* *That's a famous quote by the...

Crybaby? Seriously. What does that make you mate? Oooh, please don't complain about the fixture being moved, waah waah. I'm worried might not get to watch it on TV, and my mummy's promised me I can stay up late. If you want to argue the point, argue the point. Otherwise you'll forgive me...

Ah, I'm guessing that the people complaining about people complaining about moving the fixture were never actually intending to go to this game. Forgive me if I'm wrong. As for moving fixtures around, it may indeed be part of the modern game, but does that mean that we need to be good little...

Interesting - I'm reading this as 'it suits me better, so please stop complaining'. If football is about sitting on your fat arse in front of the telly, eating chips and listening to Andy Townsend, then I guess there's really no issue. If it's about meeting your mates, supporting your team in...

If he was from Leicester it wouldn't be a problem. ;)

Hmm... from a rugby fan's viewpoint, can I just say that I'd have no interest in watching a 'bigger' team like London Irish play at the Ricoh on a regular basis or especially instead of watching Cov RFC. I support Cov RFC because they're Coventry's team. If Man Utd were suddenly parachuted...

I would think that any prospective owner would be more concerned with the viability of the club, rather than the real estate. That's about income streams, expenditure and squad potential rather than owning bricks and mortar, isn't it? It's an interesting thought though. Could there be a...

Good spot mate - that's at least one less goal that we'll have to score to win. ;)

Much as I dislike our owners, I think if someone comes in with a substantially bigger wage offer then Leon is likely to want to leave. SISU don't really have much control over that, in fairness. From that point on it's just about maximising the fee that we can get for him, or negotiating to...

Agreed that the pitch was rough towards the end of one season, although I think there is some debate over whether that was down to the owners declining to pay for required maintenance. Regardless, other than that the Ricoh pitch has always looked pretty decent to me. I'm not on a wind up here...