I should think he has had a load of hate mail. He's supposed to represent the whole community, not just those with odd-shaped balls. Good luck with your legal research, chaps. Doubtless you'll ignore all this football trust grant money next time you claim it's a rugby stadium.

It doesnt seem clear if whelco is able to resolve fixture 'conflicts' within a number of days of each other or just on the same day

We need to know this as thta is the key bit of info.

For all we know when whelan sold the club he could of added more conditions to the clubs contracts to give latics more space around their matches

The council are under the impression that its matchday conflict. I read that as on the same day.

Do we have legal people on here? I am sure that we do.

Yes, but unfortunately I know feck all about the intricacies of this development or how a 'matchday conflict' might be defined!

I've heard rumour that the JJB Stadium is losing a lot of money, being employed there, well it's not the most comforting thing to hear. Although it's no surprise as a lot of items are being wasted and the place is heavily overstaffed, ie two people doing the job of one person.

So how was it worded?

(I'm assuming the copy has arrived by now)