Coventry City

[zandvoort blue]

Am I going soft in the head, or am I actually correct in thinking that I saw Sammy McIlroy score for us there at the beginning of a season? Looking at what I've typed there, it just screams out "nooooo".

Scored a belter, ran across to all the travelling fans, who all as one flicked the 2 fingers to him with a chorus of you red bastard.

 

[EricBrooksGhost]

A shithole made shitter by West Midlands finest

 

[Indaparkside]

so we were level on points with leaders Derby who were in the bottom half...

ever thought of a career as a TV/radio football pundit?

Hahaha

 

[Indaparkside]

Sad to see another club f**ked by shit owners, I can see them following the likes of Stockport and Tranmere sadly.

how close were we to the said above I think if we had lost the play off we'd have been a Forrest,s weds etc

 

[cleavers]

how close were we to the said above I think if we had lost the play off we'd have been a Forrest,s weds etc

More worryingly, we could have been taken over by the Ransom fronted (at the time) Sisu investment management company, and now been Coventry City, he did try (Ransom).

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

A shithole made shitter by West Midlands finest

This. (speaking from experience of living there for a while)

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Their ''fans'' have sold 45,000 plus tickets for the whatever cup it is called these days (former Freight Rover Trophy) yet for home games they can't muster 10,000. Town full of rags, dippers and Villa fans.
Hope Oxford stuff them.

Could be relegated (with a bit of luck) by the end of the week!

Possibly moving to a ground built originally as a college sports ground - now owned by Cov RUFC club.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39342738

Long may their demise continue.....

 

[ancoats]

before the take over at man city and after the Franny Lee sale there was a good chance Ray Ranson was going to take over manchester city he was head of SISU consortium they was the first choice of many people back then to buy man city was the board was talking to them you bet your life they was

how lucky we are not coventry city right now and back then coventry was a bigger club then manchester city and had one of the longest stays in the top division behind arsenal and everton its a funny old game

 

[Vienna_70]

before the take over at man city and after the Franny Lee sale there was a good chance Ray Ranson was going to take over manchester city he was head of SISU consortium they was the first choice of many people back then to buy man city was the board was talking to them you bet your life they was

how lucky we are not coventry city right now and back then coventry was a bigger club then manchester city and had one of the longest stays in the top division behind arsenal and everton its a funny old game

Weren't the red dippers just ahead of them as well?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

before the take over at man city and after the Franny Lee sale there was a good chance Ray Ranson was going to take over manchester city he was head of SISU consortium they was the first choice of many people back then to buy man city was the board was talking to them you bet your life they was

To be fair to John Wardle, he wouldn't have any dealings with Ranson. Whether he thought it was because Franny Lee was backing him or whether he seriously smelled a rat I'm not entirely sure but when you consider he sold to Thaksin, he really must have had severe doubts about Ranson.

We (the Supporters trust) were talking to Ranson at that time but it was very frustrating as he wasn't forthcoming about the source of funding or what role fans could play in the future under his consortium. Looking at coventry and us, the one major thing we had in common was playing in a stadium we didn't own. SISU tried to blackmail the owners of the Ricoh and then to bankrupt it (in which case they'd have got it at a knock-down price) but Wasps took it over and so removed that threat. You do wonder if they'd have tried the same trick with us.