“A good fight is one you win, not one you put up”

SHE comes across as slightly dotty, a lady who invariably does the cake stall at the vicar’s garden party. Always twittering, wildly enthusiastic, bottle of sherry under the table. However, Delia Smith is one of the shrewdest football club owners in the Premiership.

Anyone who can make the millions she has by teaching the nation to boil an egg deserves respect for their resourcefulness.

Any football director with the nerve and the passion to challenge her own supporters with her famous ‘C’mon! Let’s be ‘avin you’ half-time battle cry deserves our admiration.

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