They've set-netted off this point for all the years I've fished here, since before the war, and I expect they will until they die.

The tenant in dower[…]shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.

This was a rare whiff of the big-time for a club whose staple diet became top-flight football for so long - the glamour was in short supply, however. Thousands of empty seats and the driving Yorkshire rain saw to that.

For years the company had a stranglehold on the rest of the industry.