I am in complete agreement that Delaney is the worst kind of hypocritical scum and I wouldn't dream of reading any article the carried his name. We all know that he spouts a pack of lies and that his motive is essentially to comfort his employers and the supporters of clubs who are finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace with it, in particular ... From what I gather, as they find it more difficult to keep up his fiction gets wilder and wilder. The problem is that we are collectively very oversensitive on the question of club ownership and finance because we know that our owners observe all the barmy regulations put in place scrupulously and every comment made by the lunatic Delaney arouses anger and raises blood pressure. That's what wind up merchants rely on. If we took it to court, as some (not you, I know) would like, I suspect the court would find it incredible that we even felt insulted at an "accusation" that we were state owned or had owners who invested in the club. They may decide that the real remedy was to challenge FFP, which wouldn't be welcomed at all by our owners. The press council would agree it was a factual error and might order the independent to print a retraction which would appear in small print somewhere in the online edition. If the club has "put pressure" on the Independent I hope it has some effect but it could be that less emphasis on state ownership and more on state backing is the paper's answer. The real problem is that Delaney's rag is owned by Russians and Saudis, whose commitment to journalistic integrity is ....