Exactly, rA. These legal actions are just being used to cloud any takeover prospect and maybe even prevent one. the litigants can smell an opportunity to make a fast buck from a crippled team - not unlike the hyenas and vultures circling the antelope that has already been brought down by the lion (or, in our case, tripped over its own bloody feet and fallen down the cliff).

I don't understand the motivation behind these actions, other than a simple matter of spite. Whether its option 1 or 2 seems to depend on the intensity of that spite. The EFL are stuck between a rock and a hard place and it will need the litigant clubs, our hoped for owners or our past owner to resolve this.

Morally MM should clean up the mess he has created - but that doesn't seem likely. Potential owners will shy away from the risk - however remote - of taking fiscal responsibility for any litigation outcome to Middlesboro and Wycombe. M'ddlesbro and Wycombe will let the whole thing play out; doubtless they have no expectation of getting any money, but they want their pound of flesh for a perceived injustice.

The administrators and the EFL are caught in the quagmire, not really able to do much beyond try to negotiate between three what appear to be immovable objects. The longer it lingers, the more likely outcome option 2 is. In cricketing terms, I'd say option 2 is now around 57% on WinViz.