But there is a danger that, while scrutinising the minutiae of everything Koppel has ever done or said in the hope of unearthing some wicked ploy, people lose focus on the central question, which is this: should a football club be allowed to move more than 50 miles away from its historic home?
It is a question which, at the risk of sounding far too pseudo-intellectual for the sports pages, poses another question: what is a football club?
Is it merely a company, owned by shareholders, which should be allowed to operate like any other company? Or does it owe a peculiar and special loyalty to its customers? Come to that, should the punters who pay at the turnstiles be regarded only as customers?
It seems to us that the customers - no, let's give them their proper name, supporters - are unique in football.
They turn up week after week, season after season, although most clubs win nothing. The fans put up with dismal performances and depressing disappointments in the belief that next week, next season, some time, the team will start winning again.
Other businesses can only dream of this sort of brand loyalty, yet in football, the supporters are constant.
Players come and go like trains at a mainline station (only with more regularity) and even owners and directors are transient. Supporters keep going back for more.
It is an insane, illogical devotion but it is what sustains football outside the Premiership.
Without the Premiership's television fees, the rest of football relies on the fact that supporters will keep supporting, come what may.
Well, almost come what may. They won't be there for the club if the club is not there for them.
If football clubs are to be regarded as franchises, which can be shunted around the country to any suitable premises, then don't expect the fans to follow them.
The devotion is dependent on location, because it is location which defines a club.
If a club can desert its fans and decamp 50 miles up the motorway, then we will know for sure that football regards itself as just another business and cares nothing for the punters.
We'll know that the supporters are only customers after all.
