The clock is ticking at Birmingham City - whether it is counting down to salvation or oblivion - no-one knows.
But a day of reckoning will soon come at a club that has been battered from pillar to post - not just during this season - but for the majority of the past decade.
It’s three months now since golf bigwig Keith Pelley and former Microsoft salesman Jeremy Dale were unveiled as the latest hopefuls to step forward in the hope of wrestling control away from the Hong Kong-listed company that has dragged the Second City outfit to its knees.