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The council call it the £113m Arena. Are you saying it really cost £134m to construct!? Who would be to blame for such horrendous cost overruns? Why are the council the freeholder when they contributed around £10m but ACL paid twice as much yet only got a 50 year lease! It really demonstrates...

He's dreadful. Another Sky Blue Flid classic.

The council set ACL up to fail. The £21m lease premium either way was suicide. What did that £21m pay for? It hamstrung ACL and its tenant.

What's the score with the connection these days? Has it gone?

It's more a reference back to comments made by that Paul Breed character I think.

Park and ride at the Memorial Park too. Don't forget the Emirates or Stamford Bridge, virtually no parking at either.

Definitely part of the scaffold company's contract to help with the construction of the City of Coventry Stadium at the Butts

Which directors? Loan to whom? Why was it called in at that particular time? What happened to the £2m cash? Was it just used to support everyday operation?

I would like to ask who it was in 2003 that CCFC owed £6.5m to which ultimately led to the sale of their share in ACL, and why they raised the money in that way rather than retaining the asset.

It was the Yorkshire Bank (not that it matters). The second question is interesting, you'd have to feel it was Wasps who made the first move, it would be very poor on the part of the council if it wasn't. Then again, it could have been the 'local charity' who made the first connection with Wasps.

Where's your evidence? SISU were discussing the 50% share in 2012. They hadn't discussed it at the point of taking over the club, nor was it offered. There was a secret formula for calculating how much CCFC would buy back the Higgs Share which was used to start the 2012 discussions (and...

Because it was worth a lot less, as the deal with Wasps testifies.

It's OK, Tony Sugar thinks he isn't 'walking the walk'.

Why do they have to roll Tim Fisher out?

Our thoughts are aligned, it's becoming clearer that the council's loan to ACL in effect was to smooth the path for Wasps to buy into ACL when the time was right. Whether that could be argued as state aid or not is debatable, but it would be nice to have it in the public domain that the council...

Although, perhaps the Wasps deal was background noise to JR1, why was it that the council got cold feet about the deal to distress the YB mortgage? It never was explained.......

The judges haven't looked at the deal with Wasps. They looked at events that took place during 2012 predominantly.

I want the sale of the Ricoh to Wasps to be scrutinised properly (in the absence of any transparency from the public authority). Therefore, bring on JR2.

Yes, it's retaining power that is important. Making it look like their judgement is shrewd. I absolutely despise the council, I believe that their actions, going all the way back to the inception of the Arena on the Gasworks site, have wrecked the future prospects of the football club. They are...

Why? Nothing to be worried about in the legal actions, the deal with Wasps had nothing underhand about it. It could bring cost maybe but if they're confident of their position SISU will be paying (again). Maybe I'm being simplistic.