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Sorry Stu, I should have double checked the details, the £21m loan taken out by ACL repaid £21m of borrowing taken out by the council to meet the funding gap for the stadium (not fit out costs as I incorrectly recalled). But I was correct that the £21m did not pay off the £10m equity investment...

Sorry Stu, but IIRC that £21million paid off the remaining funding gap from fitting out the Ricoh and did not pay off the £10million council equity investment.

Do you think the council should write off its £10million equity investment in the stadium?

Yes, the wider circumstances of the case were different, but it is the most relevant and most recent look at the issue of hyperlinking and how it relates to defamation that I have been able to find so far. I have a feeling there are not a wide ranging of precedents for libel lawyers to pick...

In such a hypothetical situation, the law might consider you to be repeating a libel (if one exists). It may not make sense to you, it may not make sense to me, but the position of English law appears to still be unclear on this point* so lawyers can take it to court and argue over it. *dare I...

Talking about the law generally and not about any particular case, just the threat of libel proceedings can be enough to shut down all but the most well resourced media. Just the threat of the costs involved in fighting a legal case can be enough to make most shut up, even if they are reporting...

James, did you see my post here? http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/39744-Sky-Blues-Trust-Guardian-link?p=599662&viewfull=1#post599662

I've just been doing a little research and from what I have found it appears to me that the law on the issue of hyperlinking is very much up for debate. So far, the most recent case law I have been able to find suggests to me (and I'm not a lawyer so don't take my word for it) that anyone...

It's not the first time a Coventry fan/fans have been threatened with being sued by club management. Anyone on GMK about 10 years ago will remember what I'm thinking about.

New stadium jacket - allegedly available sometime in the next 3-5 years somewhere near to, but not in, Coventry.* *Dear lawyers, this is a parody and not to be taken seriously.

You're right in that a simple cock-up is often overlooked as a reason for something happening. It isn't helped because people often don't like to admit mistakes and sometimes try to hide them - thereby adding fuel to the conspiracy theory. I'm talking in general terms and I'm not saying that has...

I don't have a clue what has happened, but whole thread is beginning to sound a little like that whole super-injunction thing when news organisations were told they couldn't report the fact that someone had taken out an injunction to stop them publishing something else. As I say, I know nothing...

Nelson Mandela opposed the domination of one group of people over another. He was steadfast in campaigning for equal rights. A great man has departed.

Thanks. I've just seen this article from a couple of weeks ago saying the club are trying to get Christie on a longer contract. Fair play to them. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/coventry-city-locked-contract-talks-6331565

Was that aimed at me? A "witch hunt" for stating the bleedin' obvious that you will get more for good, young, British players if you don't let them get into the last six months of their contract? Fernando, I'm not suggesting Christie is the same or better than the Gareth Bale of six years ago...

I agree that if his contract is up at the end of the season, then the price will be lower. But as one of our young stars, you would have hoped the management would have looked to avoid losing him for a pittance and sorted that out - as, credit to them, they have with Wilson. When they were down...

Could this be ACL's final attempt to dance with CCFC? Was the "rent free" offer (or whatever it was) a last invitation to waltz before they try to find new partners? Is it a coincidence that this new suitor for Ricoh time emerged this week? Whatever, it doesn't look like Sisu want to tango -...

Didn't someone allege on here the other day that some of the players were unhappy because Waggott had been hawking people around? I'm not saying that allegation is true and I'm not saying that it is false because I don't know the truth. But, equally, it might be unfair to jump to the conclusion...

That is opinion, not fact. They might sell something, but what guarantees have you got that they would sell the club and the ground together as one package?

So half a season rent free plus 2 seasons at £100,000 plus costs and circa 10,000 attendances or 3 seasons at Northampton (cost 130,000?) + costs and circa 2,000 attendances. Forgive me for not being a financial hot shot but how on anything other than planet Sisu does taking the offer while they...