Yes, EWM could walk away and to avoid bad publicity they could cancel the whole of the debt to them. That would still leave the club utterly f­ucked and able to stagger on for a short while before ceasing to exist. There will be no local business consortium coming to the rescue until their businesses have got into a healthy financial position quite a while after the end of Covid 19.

Those few who would like the fans to protest outside the EWM headquarters should bear in mind that if EWM walk away, cancelling the debt, they would not get bad publicity because they would have given the club probably £2.5 million. But the club would cease to exist long before a consortium would arrive. Leaving Jenkins, Nixon and Pattison in charge at the best of times is a recipe for disaster. But in the current era to put them back in charge would result in an accelerated disaster and they would be in charge. Nobody else would arrive in time to prevent the club ceasing to exist.