The day started with the scent of blood in the air as Lord Stevens prepared to reveal the findings of his investigation into "alleged irregular transfer payments" in the Premiership.

It ended in frustration and a spiky news conference where there appeared to be a general lack of satisfaction with the "interim" report.

The stern expression and one that suggested he meant business when Lord Stevens entered the room at the plush London hotel seemed to have betrayed the hype.

The revelation that 39 transfers - covering eight clubs - were still the subject of investigation was not as hard-hitting enough for some after seven months of work.

Whether or not any bungs would be uncovered within the powers that were available to the Quest investigation unit was a fear. And, if illicit payments were found to have been made, where the investigation would go afterwards.

Lord Stevens and Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore pleaded for "patience".

For now a veil of secrecy hangs over the eight clubs in question and it will take two more months for anything to be proven, if there have been any dodgy dealings at all.

Lord Stevens insists if he and his Quest organisation cannot uncover wrong-doings no-one could, while Scudamore said the identity of any clubs or individuals alleged to be guilty would be revealed if and when relevant charges were brought against them.

But the questions most wanted answered were left hanging in the air as they were straight-batted back for legal reasons, as well as making sure the investigation was not somehow compromised.

Understandable but, nevertheless, disappointing after a day which started with the back pages full of promise that some of football's shadier characters were set for their come-uppence.

I'd started the day not having a clue about where the news conference was going to take place.

I feared a Carry On-style chase around London as I prepared to charge up my Oyster card or get the moped out.

But the location was released at mid-morning and I put calls in to the Premier League.

I wanted to know what access there would be to Lord Stevens and Scudamore while a call was made to the Football Association to get its slant of events.

The FA was going to take a watching brief as it was the Premier League's show.

At the hotel, the national media were suited and booted with laptops at the ready as they swapped snippets of information.

Most newspapers had two journalists working in tandem and afterwards gathered to discuss what they had just heard.

Lord Stevens had met with the chairman of the clubs involved earlier to share the same information he revealed in the news conference.

Only Everton supremo Bill Kenwright had stopped to talk to the assembled media as they went to hear what Lord Stevens had to say.

Birmingham's David Gold also gave a brief soundbite.

In the meeting, I found out all the club chairmen nodded in approval as they agreed with one voice that they wanted the allegations of bungs tainting the game resolved once and for all.

Not even all of them they know the eight clubs whose transfers are under extra scrutiny.

But the individual Premiership sides will know who they are as Lord Stevens continues to conduct his investigation.

He needs two more months to firm up any possible bung findings.

That means we in the media have no choice, as Lord Stevens put it, to "wait and see" until the inquiry ends.