Please see Ramone's comments about the Solanke thingy. I'm afraid your track record about the tribunal doesn't inspire me, JW. I know you'll hate me for this but I do have to remind you that 6 weeks ago you said that you were confident the tribunal would sit two weeks after that date, and we're still waiting.
Absolutely. They'd have given us twice the money we asked for.
I bet the cheque is in the post already !
As I mentioned many posts ago, Chelsea are going perceived by the local business community as notoriously difficult to get money out of. So yes Mike, you are correct.
Yes, Flakey, I had that feeling.
They always have been. In 94 I was on a course about firms factoring their debts and the guy running it said that dealing with football clubs wasn't as fraught with danger as you might think, because most clubs owned their own grounds so you always got your money in the end. I know a lot of clubs have had their grounds hived off now so it's probably different, but back then, Chelsea under Ken Bates were well ahead of the curve. He said that his firm had looked at doing business with them but he said a search found it impossible to find out which part of the club was owned by who. Chelsea village owned some of it, Chelsea Hotel owned another part and so it went on and they were the only club that they turned down.
