Thanks. I wondered what was holding the deal up. Ron Martin always was a contemptible little crook.
About 20 years, or possibly more, ago, around the time i first got involved with environmental campaigning and became friends with Jon Fuller, one of Jon's sons used t train with the Southend youth team. At the training ground was the club's entertaining facility. When Jon went to pick his son up from training one evening, he saw the seating plan for a slap-up meal and nicked it. It showed senior councillors sitting alongside football execs. He showed me the plan once.
I asked him recently if he still had it, but sadly he doesn't. It speaks volumes.