EVEN if you have no stake in the fate of City Link, it is hard to read about it without your blood boiling.

Many staff discovered on Christmas Day that they would be out of a job.

Meanwhile, many sub-contractors who have worked flat out in recent weeks have learned their efforts were for nothing.

Their invoices – sometimes totalling many thousands of pounds – are likely to go unpaid.

So when Jon Moulton, boss of parent company Better Capital, said yesterday the collapse was “not particularly” mishandled, there will have been quite a few people ready to deliver a reply.