Chelsea is hardly a football club known for bargains - season tickets with a top price of 1,000 and 17 million for Hernan Crespo being two examples, while City law firm Fox Williams had to shell out a fair bit, one assumes, as the kit sponsor for Emmanuel Petit, who has only worn his kit half a dozen times this season and is leaving Stamford Bridge in the summer.

But disappointed Blues getting over their Champions League exit will have seen in Wednesday's programme a once-in-a-lifetime offer: dinner followed by a question-and-answer session with the Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon and chairman Bruce Buck.

Mr Buck, head of the European practice at top US firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, presumably charges several hundred pounds an hour for his expert words of wisdom, but clients looking for some advice on the cheap would do well to take up the offer of a whole evening with him for just 40.