Prince Philip was spot on.

Rarely in his long and busy life has the Duke of Edinburgh uttered anything that would, on reflection years later, be seen to have hit the nail on the head, put it in a nutshell and been bang on the button.

But in 1975 he did.

"It seems to me unwise," Phil opined, "to place too great a reliance on a growing or even a steady contribution of sponsorship to the first-class game".

Delphic.