But if anyone wishes to apply it to the laws of the corporate takeover jungle, then right now the nation's favourite TV cookery writer has one.

Towergate billionaire Peter Cullum stuck his nose out from the long grass again this week; claiming that he wouldn't stand idly by and watch the Canaries go either to the wall or to Elland Road next season.

For the little that anyone's money is actually worth these days, I don't get any immediate sense that administration is imminent.

On the back of Tuesday night's efforts, the latter remains a distinct possibility. But, for me, it would take a very brave banker indeed to be seen to be driving Delia Smith over the financial edge.

Particularly when the 67-year-old has very publically revealed that she is, once again, putting her own retirement plans on hold in order to try and top up the Carrow Road coffers to the tune of an extra £3 million.

In an ideal world, she and her husband Michael Wynn Jones would be busily planning their next, gentle motoring holiday through Tuscany rather than reaching for the pen and the pinnie again. But these are not ideal times.

So if – for now – Cullum is doing little more than playing footsie with first the punters' affections and increasingly their patience,
what next? Well, you can't help but wonder whether giving the kids a whirl might not be part of the answer.

Yes, you win nothing with kids but you do buy time. Certainly with the supporters. Asked to get behind Luke Daley's debut or stick with a half-fit Antoine Sibierski, twice the youngster's age, and there's no doubt which way the faithful would go.

Now, it might only be for a couple of months; it might leave the kid broken confidence-wise if it all went belly up; it might even hasten City's exit to League One.

Them's the downsides. The upsides, however, are several.

You pull the Carrow Road crowd back into line as they see 'one of their own' busting a gut to make his mark; Glenn Roeder earns a brownie point for giving the teenagers a go and the bank manager starts to see pound signs in the shape of a home-grown talent being eyed by one of the big boys.

Given the ever-shrinking number of options sat on the City boardroom table, that doesn't sound a bad plan.

Having a plan at all would be a start – certainly for as long as Cullum does little more than whisper sweet nothings out of the shadows.

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