the solution...

DELIA: "I'd prefer it to be a local person."

MAYO: But if there was a groundswell of opinion that backed someone else stepping in? Of buying the Smiths and Jones' out and allowing them to return to their season tickets in the City Stand?

DELIA: "If there was something contentious I think what I'd have to do is run out onto the pitch and let everybody vote.

"We did have a vote once," she added, recalling the days of Bruce Oldfield's all-yellow kit collection.

"When I first became a board director we went into yellow shorts and yellow tops and the supporters didn't like it and they complained. And we did have a vote.

"We did have: 'Hold up a yellow card if you want them yellow... Hold up a green card if you want the green back....' And the green won - I lost the vote. And we went back to green and yellow."

Posted By: Dave in France, Jul 13, 20:33:19