Ian

Heather's husband, 68-year-old Baptist pastor Ian Wilkinson, survived after weeks of treatment in hospital.

BBC Sport asked City fans their thoughts with Steve saying semi-finals at Wembley take the "aura" away around those matches, Andrew asking for a "geographically sensible ground", while Ian said the costs "mount up".

“This has been the coolest thing ever,” senior pitcher Ian Sullivan said, one of more than a dozen players in the program whose family was displaced by the fires.

There is a real awareness too of the necessity to improve the academy to speed up a production of home grown players to supplement signings and make more of the 'Wrexham-mania' among youngsters in a catchment area that has traditionally been a hotbed of talent - think Ian Rush, Mark Hughes and Neville Southall, and more recently, Harry Wilson and Neco Williams.

Ian, a young man from D.C., told me a story that illustrated the vision of tough love that was the bedrock of these relationships.