The appeal raised £46.2m, nearly £10m higher than last year – the first Children in Need broadcast without Sir Terry hosting - after he was forced to pull out because of ill health.
After taking over from Terry Leahy as chief executive, he pulled out of an ill-advised venture into America and scaled back Tesco's ambitions in China.
But that letter could be used by the next president as justification for pulling out of this ill-begotten agreement.
Following questionnaire dispatch, 5% (n=297) of potentially eligible survivors were discovered to be ineligible (eg, out-of-date address, ill health, recent death).
Leather briefcase in hand and portly frame bursting out of ill-fitting suits, he smoothed cracks behind the scenes in a party so volatile he was once nicknamed "Meccano-builder" for all the bridges he mended.
Three seasons later the Rangers have abandoned all of that except for Lundqvist, who is left backstopping a team with little charisma and less offense, and whose hope for the future rests on wiggling out of ill-advised free-agent contracts.
The markets moved almost vertically in that final hour and, given the negative mood that has been hovering over the market for the past few days, it was not hard to imagine those short-sellers who arrived late to the party scrambling to get out of ill-timed positions.
