Matt BADCOCK
AN INFORMED AND ENTERTAINING READ

WHAT’S it like building a football stadium? “Very stressful and very expensive – apart from that, great fun,” Cambridge City chairman Kevin Satchell says, dryly.
We’re sitting in a portacabin at the club’s new FWD-IP Community Stadium in Sawston – a large village outside the university city – just four days before their more than 11-year wait to play a first team match in their own home again is over.
To get to this point has been a saga of on, off and on again planning permission, legal battles, and groundshares with local clubs St Ives Town,...