Since your correspondent started reporting on Football, sustainability has been an topical issue at every level of the game.
The recent financial troubles involving National League sides Hartlepool United and Chester FC, which could see both clubs go into Administration or - worse still - potentially go out of business.
Hartlepool require £200,000 to avoid going into Administration, and have already seen one rescue bid collapse.
Meanwhile, Chester need to find £50,000 or face the threat of closure by the end of March and have told that they will have slash their wage bill for this season if they do survive.
Both side's respective plights could yet have an immediate on the National League survival hopes of Torquay United, which could vary depending on two possible outcomes; the two clubs receiving a ten-point penalty for entering Administration or seeing their league records for the present season expunged upon liquidation.
If Hartlepool were to receive a ten-point penalty, it would place them in the relegation zone whilst Chester FC would replace United as the league's bottom club.
The Gulls have had their own financial issues since their relegation from the Football League in 2014, which has seen subsequent takeovers from the David Phillips headed consortium in 2015 and by Gaming International and Clarke Osborne midway through the 2016-17 campaign.
Indeed United are the only one of three professional sides in Devon never to have entered Administration - Exeter City have on two occasions and Plymouth have just the once.
Their respective plights raise the question of sustainability of lower league football at League Two and National League level, especially in a league that often sees the Gulls travelling to far flung places such as Gateshead to play in front of three figure crowds.
Travelling long journeys isn't a concept lost on United, as their most 'local' fixture this season was against Eastleigh over the festive period, whose Silverlake Stadium is 132 miles away as the crow flies.
However, in League Two - the level where the Gulls last plied their trade in the 2013-14 season - solidarity payments from the Premier League and TV revenue from Sky go a long way to insulating its member clubs against the kind of financial troubles that many relegated from the Football League face.
A few years ago, it was announced that the average losses of clubs in League Two came to £500,000.
Whether more responsible financial management or greater hand outs from the Premier League are the answer is a debate that possesses the potential to rage on forever. After all there are several ways to run a football club ranging from private ownership to fan ownership.
Nevertheless, one thing is for sure, English football could be about to lose two clubs that have both made a small, but significant, impact on its history, as Hartlepool were the club where Brian Clough received his first break as a manager and Chester, in their previous guise of Chester City, handed Ian Rush his professional debut.
