Well, that's true enough. Would appreciate the courtesy of confirmation (or otherwise) though.

I guess Mr Allam will cancel the tournament now.

I think you'll be waiting a long time. It looks like they are doing a behind closed doors deal. Or he may be busy with the election.

I suspect you're right. Given the extreme, excitable and frequent responses to a suggestion the council were rolling over though, I sort of thought there might be some sort of clarification. Any insight on the deal, do you think the £300k Labour donation was a timely boost?

I think they have wanted a deal since before Cllr Geraghty meet him. They've chased him and he's always said no. They can now threaten him and get a deal, they hope.

What kind of deal? They already have a deal for him to run the KC with no financial risk to the council. What else do they want?

They want to develop the area around West Park. They also want a deal to get the Airco back into community use. I think they'd like to be involved in City's success as well.

Another explanation may be they are expecting new owners shortly and have stepped back from the legal action to see what happens.

And city go 1-0 down to the bottom club in the premiership and move into the relegation places in their must win game

... which probably means Mr Allam won't be selling anytime soon.

will they get the academy money if they go down?