Or rather, more specifically, the fact that Tevez's sometime-owner Kia Joorabchian is now dragging West Ham United through the High Court in the quest to wring the £7.1 million he says he is owed out of the East End club.

Wading the claim after counter-claim, the only thing that is safe to say is that there must be one or two people within Upton Park who rue the day that Joorabchian ever walked through the door.

Former chairman Eggert Magnusson has been left with a lot of the explaining to do but the fact of the matter is that Joorabchian's first involvement in boardroom affairs at Upton Park came under the previous regime.

The same regime that once upon a time employed Glenn Roeder as manager.

We will not even start to take the road north to Newcastle and see the car crash unfolding there following the departure of Freddy Shepherd from the board, other than to note that Roeder's two former employers have both moved on with wads of cash in their hands.

Why is that all of any interest?

Because, as Roeder settles ever more into his new life in Norfolk, you get a very real sense that he is starting to get what the club are all about.

The fact that he was one of the few managers to attend last weekend's Football League Awards night in London suggested that, as did his comments to My Football Writer columnist Mick Dennis afterwards.

Roeder said: "There must be nearly a 1,000 people here from all over the Football League and everyone I have talked to has praised the way Norwich go about their business and the way they involve themselves in their community.

"Nobody has a bad word to say about our club."

And, just for the record, there aren't that many people in the wider world with too much bad to say about Ipswich Town, either.

This isn't a hymn of praise for all things Norwich. The Cobbolds were doing much right long before the Smiths arrived at the helm. But that's what Roeder is now buying into; that's why his use of the word 'our' was so interesting.

Because I get the distinct impression that as he looks back over his shoulder at that car crash on the A1 and the High Court appearances awaiting West Ham United, he takes a big, deep breath of that clean East Anglian air and smiles quite contentedly to himself.

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