Why has it taken the Mail 9 days to run this story? Are they filling in the gaps between city matches?

To the tune of Band Aid and do they know it Xmas time ?

It's crisis time,
and Hudgell is afraid,
at crisis time, we leave saltend and and sign no big names
and in their world of plenty, kath and rule sit back and laugh,
please can you spare a bit of change, at crisis time?

but say a prayer,
pray for hudge and co.
at crisis time, its hard when your having fun,
there's a place down Preston Road,
and it's a place of dread and fear
where the only money coming, is a crappy sponsorship deal,
and the 60 quid per head, from the gullable red and white fools
so tonight thank god its them, instead of you.

And there won't be profit in East Hull this crisis year
and they cant afford to keep on paying cooke,
oooh, but all the red and whites
keep burying their heads,
do they know its crisis time at all?

Not my words but a very funny poster on FC

Putting aside the many factual inaccuracies, that's quite good!

Apparantly the Hold Rd shop isn't even open today for last-minute buying, that's really gonna help isn't it.

Class.

If the directors call their loans in they will get nowt, so they are highly unlikely to do so are they. It paper debt and will be handled over the coming years, lets face it Hudge, Rob Crossland and the latest recruit (forgot his name) have built highly successful businesses which has been done with astute business sense and not by accident.

I know nothing about accounting, but couldn't we put a value on each player and add this to the balance sheet, you never know, it might put us in profit

I understand the peppercorn rent for City and FC is over- next season FC will be charged 600k for tenancy!

myth, we only had a rent/terms review about 2 years ago, and we only have them every 5 years.

as is well known, a large part of our deal is based on crowd % rather than a flat figure anyway

Thanks for that James - can you put that in writing ( non-invisable ink please)