A big chunk of this, yes. Soon as the planning permission was granted, courtesy of Messrs Knight and Perry and the Albion fanbase, SOMEBODY would have stepped in and built the stadium. But would have had to be somebody with equally deep pockets, because post-financial-crash, sure as hell the...
"IF we are promoted, and Middlesborough relegated..."
Then we won't give a shit about last season. In fact we don't really care about Middlesborough either way.