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In essence, someone keen to sell, and not many people looking to buy. The drop in price is potential buyers factoring in the risk of the bond not being repaid at the end of the term, against the interest payment (5-ish percent p.a, iirc), and the chance of the bond price rising at a later date...

It's got to hurt them financially, the club and the related footfall departing. That, and the fact that it draws attention to their other financial woes is likely to make people a bit worried about their ability to repay the bond. Hence the impact on the price, perhaps... Either way I'm going...

I think players will tend to go to the club that's paying the most money first, and then where they think they've got the best chance of getting in the first team next. If all those things are equal, which I doubt they often are, then somewhere, way down the list of concerns will be 'what...

Pretty good summary of it all, as far as I'm concerned. I think the key point in all of this, is that just because you can see fault in the Council and Wasps, doesn't make you pro-SISU. Similarly, having a raging hatred of SISU shouldn't stop you seeing that there are issues beyond just their...

What we need to do is build it over a bank holiday weekend. Then by the time the council know, it's already in place. We can then play on it for the next six years whilst it works its way through the courts. In the meantime we'll rent it out to Cov Utd on the days we're not there, and get...

I'd love us to build a new stadium and get out from under Wasps. The evidence so far is hugely against it though; we've had a lot of time to get things moving, but there's never been any genuine sign of progress. I can't see where SISU suddenly find 20-30 million quid from...

Sadly, us lefties aren't supported financially by mysterious far-right organisations and unusual (even-Russian) finding sources, so I've still got to go out and earn a living. Still, I'm sure that Yaxley-Lennon loves his country so much that he can in no way be influenced by all that cash...

Thuggish criminal twat behaves like thug shocker. Such a big man he didn't even have the bottle to stick around to hear the count after the Euro elections; didn't fancy facing the cameras then did he? Funded by the far right, doesn't work for a living, pretends to stand up for the little guy...

Commercially, I can't see how it works for more than a few years. Rent is likely to be equivalent or more and attendances lower. The EFL are spineless, agreed, but even they will tire of it eventually you'd think, and they have got a million pound bond, apparently. Best hope is probably that...

As for St Andrew's, I genuinely believe we'll be made to feel more welcome there than we are currently at the Ricoh. And if the money can't go direct to the club, then I'd rather my stadium spend went into Blues pockets than those conniving, slimy bastards that run the insects. Bollocks to...

Is it time to crank out the Wembley Special again, Otis? Must be brilliant having your own train, bit of a nightmare for parking though I'd guess. :)

Spot on. A pity, given he's a journalist with some clout. He's on a campaign against crap owners in football, which is laudable, but it's either blinded him to any nuance in our situation, or he's just out to sell a few books/clicks without doing too much work.

No, but it's patently idiocy to suggest they're the only ones to blame. You can stick your 'SISU apologist' line where the sun doesn't shine too, I know that's what comes next...

If you got the revs right you could use it instead of the clutch. :) It was the first car I ever drove, slightly illlegally, when moving my old man's ex-GPO van round the entry. Second (when I was about 15) was his Chrysler 2 Litre (a posh version of the 180, if anyone remembers them). I...

Just seen as a bit dicey, I think. I used to hitch-hike to Wales from Cov every couple of weeks to go climbing. I reckon I still know every lay-by on the A5, it was rarely a fast journey! Still see some of the car delivery drivers on trade plates trying for lifts on the motorway junctions...

Clearly had tons of skill, but always looked a little lightweight for us I thought. Obviously has come on loads as he's got older, bigger and more experienced (as players often do), and probably gets looked after better by refs in the higher divisions. Not exactly the first player who has done...

I can help with this. If you're British and move to a different country for work purposes, usually whilst still retaining elements of your culture, you're an ex-pat. If you're not British and do this, then you're an immigrant. Hope this helps. :)

I love my country mate, I had more than one go at joining up to fight for it. As did others in my family. So you can fuck right off with that assumption pal. I just don't want a country where hatred and fear of 'the other' become acceptable. What's pathetic is this terror of people who aren't...

London has never been about tea-cakes and polo. It's never been posh either, in the places where the people who work for a living live anyway. Anyone who thinks that it isn't and hasn't always been multi-cultural has obviously never lived there. Let's be honest here, your real definition of...

It's a very large, metropolitan city. Lots of people with funny accents, some of them aren't even white. This was London in the 80s too when I lived there. Brum too, and even parts of Coventry. It didn't scare me then, and it doesn't scare me now. What does worry me is where this goes next for...