There's a lot of emotion here.
Hood is not "deluded". He has run public companies for goodness sake.
Harris was not a ripple but a tsunami.
Hood has worked his socks off to try stabalise the ship and get outside investment.
Do you see a queue to the door at the Bulls of exceptionally wealthy individuals wanting to hand over their megabucks?
The game, in totality, is bankrupt; it's only SKY and the wealthy benefactors that keep it afloat in the form it is.
Whoever comes in will have to have extremely deep pockets!

and yet and yet....life just seems to be carrying on; confirming kick offs for games in June, summer 'touch league' to run throughout the summer. Why does everything seem so normal?

Is it only because I [iwant it[/i to be normal that it seems so? Or are there really feet paddling like hell under the water, and something being lined up? Even the EGM is going to be right at the end of May (yeah, I know, the logistics, legal timetables and the rest) surely that is too late unless [isomething[/i is already in place (put there by whom, I don't know) but ready to rock and roll?

We just seem to be in that 'phoney war' period where war has been declared but the bombs have yet to drop.

The bombs may not have dropped yet, but the special forces have been in action behind the lines for a while now...

I much prefer war analogies to car analogies. I hate car analogies.

I'm still putting off buying my ticket for the Etihad.

I haven't got mine yet, though this is really only because I'm not sure if the wife is going or not, added to the fact that I doubt there will be a shortage..