So the £250k/year figure came from the Courier. And I wonder who gave them that. The FOI shows this figure was absolute ball-cocks yet you choose to believe it rather than the black and white figures given by the council.
The thing is, the club originally wanted to include the rent in the deal to buy the stadium, despite it being the club owing the rent and TA being the one hoping to buy - two separate entities which makes this just plain daft. Furthermore, when the sale didn't happen, the club then agreed to pay in full by 31/12/13.
So if there was any dispute at all, why would they look to pay it off as part of the deal to buy the Shay, and why would they later agree a date by which to pay it in full? There is no dispute, or if there is it's been manufactured recently in order to justify continued non-payment.
FC Halifax Town do have a small shop in the portacabin, not a full blown shop as such but still extra floorspace which is part of the equation when you pay rent.
Surely the fairest, most transparent way to calculate the rent would be by breaking it down to a charge for shop/office space and an equal, per match charge for stadium use for each club??
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