We understand why the Arena project is not moving very fast. Richardson says that after the decontamination work was completed, engineers were at the site and discovered that the top of the soil was fine, but some way down the soil was still contaminated. As the club had already spent a lot of money (millions) on this work they weren't too pleased and confronted the people who did the work, this argument is still ongoing, allegedly.

The company doing the de-contamination work have charged the club £11m for work done so far, but then quoted £15m for the second phase of de-contamination. The club were unaware (or more likely unclear) that the original quote (which was only £10m) did not cover the complete work.

The sub-contractors have now pulled out because they are owed money and the rumour is that the scheme will die unless the site is chosen for the new National Stadium. That's why all the bigwigs were in Cov the other week and why the CET has been running the "Bring the Stadium to Cov" campaign.