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Definitely a derogatory term, although I've only seen it used by Americans talking about the Vietnamese war. I watched Top Gear, and didn't notice this as aimed at anyone - this bridge really did have a slope (i.e. tilt) from one side to another. Maybe I missed the reference. I wouldn't put...

Could it be that the reason that SISU keep going on about it is to divert attention from all of the obvious questions about the accounts? If the SBT insisted that the board of CCFC were changed, because they couldn't trust (say) Fisher and Labovitch, what do you think SISU would say? The...

You know what, having seen that I genuinely feel a bit sorry for the bloke. All politics aside, he's still a human being - no one wants to be hated... surely he never meant it to go this way.

Hold up a second here - this is about LEPs and business initiatives, it's hardly tanks rolling over the border in a land grab for Nuneaton & Bedworth. Outside of local politics, I don't think this is particularly big story. I don't doubt that Coventry City Council has faults, but if you're...

Football League 'Rules', don't make me laugh. It's more like the Pirate's Code, and as you may recall from the movies 'the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.' :)

Yep, that's a fair shout - I wonder how much we're paying for him. The Walsall manager seemed to suggest quite a lot, but I sense that he was being a bit defensive there with regards to their own performance. Like you say, we'll see. I'd have thought Bigi is the sort of player that SP would...

Premiership club mate - even if he was right at the bottom of the players' salary scale he'd have to be on £4 - £5k per week. If he was being paid peanuts, Newcastle wouldn't be making noises about having a contribution to his wages, would they? When Westwood went to Sunderland as basically a...

Damn it, they've figured out my cunning plan. I work for the council. As soon as we know where they're planning the new ground, we're going to gazump the deal, buy the site and fill the land with nuclear waste. We'll also reposition our giant sun-blocking satellite (that we launched last year...

I think the big problem might be the significant contribution to the wages that Newcastle seem to want. Not sure we can afford that. Pity, because I think he could do a great job for us in L1.

Good work Simon, much appreciated this. Good to get the ML 'three-week' quote in again - it really bugs me that he tried to hide behind the 'misquoted' rubbish rather than simply admit he said it. Basically I think the whole article points further to how thin SISU's plan is for the new...

Huckerby - of course. How could I forget him. Mifsud too - fair shout. Isn't it nice to have more than one player in the team who is genuinely quick...

It's nice to have a bit of pace in the side for a change. Trying to remember the last real flyer we had. Kevin Gallacher was properly quick, but that was an awful long time ago. There must have been others since?!

I'm all ears (genuinely, they're the size of dinnerplates - still can't hear the missus when the football's on though). Anyway, joking aside, what's the context where SISU wind us up instead of selling?

The root of one of our oldest disagreements NW - I can't see any way in which it's more rational to wind a business up for nothing, than sell it for something.

I like that idea Chief - there is something not quite right about the loan system. I'm also not keen on the idea of loaning players to teams within your own division (who then can't play against you), that seems a bit odd to me. It may just be me, in fairness. ;)

Again accepted - though I still think that at some point most investors will review their positions, at that point the CCFC fund might be one they'd ask to be removed from. New investors are similarly unlikely to want to get involved, I'd venture. Ultimately SISU themselves will also surely...

No there isn't, agreed. But if you're managing a fund that loses your investors' money, particularly if you lose that money by writing off their investment to your benefit, as Godiva is suggesting, then the odds are that your investors will dry up, I'd say. Even if you're not being that...

Absolutely - though of course the higher the risk, the higher the expected return. It's hard to see how they can get to a point to make any return from where they are now. And even if there's not much they can do about getting their money back now, I'd guess investors will be picking up on...

Fair shout, but it's hard to imagine attracting many more investors if you treated them like this. In truth I think the money put in via SISU (via ARVO, or otherwise) is all investors' funds. Entirely accept that it might be from different groups of investors, although I'm not completely...

See what you're saying - but SISU themselves only use investors money, don't they? In essence then, this would mean burning one set of investors to the tune of £30m, so that the new investors get a clean slate. I'm not sure this entirely adds up, because I think the new investors might be wary...