Coventry City

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Best news I have heard in a while........ here's hoping...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47331084
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Yeah, always good when an entire fanbase loses its football club because it's been run into the ground by crooks. As always in cases like this, the FA and the EFL should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Over the last fifteen years they've allowed Coventry, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Blackpool, Charlton, Leyton Orient and, in less severe cases, clubs like Swansea, Birmingham, Notts Forest and Leeds to be financially destroyed by evil, stupid men, and all for the sake of making the English game seem like a lucrative financial haven. Hell, the FA allowed us to be taken over by Thaksin Shinawatra while he faced arrest and the freezing of his assets in his home country - were it not for our good fortune in finding the Sheikh, we'd have entered administration as well.

Tribalism in football isn't a disease, and rivalries are part of why we keep giving our hard-earned money to the clubs we love, but to celebrate seeing a club dying on its arse is poor form. Nearly 30,000 people are on the brink of no longer having a football club to support and all you have to offer up is gleeful derision? Very classy of you. Regardless of who you love and hate in football, we're all fans who work hard during the week and go to watch football to blow off steam. However wronged you might feel about something a Coventry City fan did to you or said to you before 2002 (which was the last time we played them in a game of any description), the rest of them don't deserve to lose something they've loved since they knew how to walk. Bad owners are a cancer on the game and a club the size of Coventry falling victim to their poison is proof that any of us can be taken down if we're not careful.

So no, this isn't good news at all.
 
7evens said:
Yeah, always good when an entire fanbase loses its football club because it's been run into the ground by crooks. As always in cases like this, the FA and the EFL should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Over the last fifteen years they've allowed Coventry, Portsmouth, Blackburn, Blackpool, Charlton, Leyton Orient and, in less severe cases, clubs like Swansea, Birmingham, Notts Forest and Leeds to be financially destroyed by evil, stupid men, and all for the sake of making the English game seem like a lucrative financial haven. Hell, the FA allowed us to be taken over by Thaksin Shinawatra while he faced arrest and the freezing of his assets in his home country - were it not for our good fortune in finding the Sheikh, we'd have entered administration as well.

Tribalism in football isn't a disease, and rivalries are part of why we keep giving our hard-earned money to the clubs we love, but to celebrate seeing a club dying on its arse is poor form. Nearly 30,000 people are on the brink of no longer having a football club to support and all you have to offer up is gleeful derision? Very classy of you. Regardless of who you love and hate in football, we're all fans who work hard during the week and go to watch football to blow off steam. However wronged you might feel about something a Coventry City fan did to you or said to you before 2002 (which was the last time we played them in a game of any description), the rest of them don't deserve to lose something they've loved since they knew how to walk. Bad owners are a cancer on the game and a club the size of Coventry falling victim to their poison is proof that any of us can be taken down if we're not careful.

So no, this isn't good news at all.
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30,000 of them ha ha ha ha ha
Only when they get to the checkatrade final!
 
Spot on although I might make and exception for the cult club. if circumstances dictated such a plight for them.
 
Could have been us under Toxic.

We dropped lucky, looks like Coventry hasn't.
 
Trojan1962 said:
They had a decent turn out v Gillingham a couple of weeks ago which seemed strange as prior to that it was very poor considering the population of the city
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That was the annual community/family day. They usually get a decent turn out for that.

Around 10 - 12k is the norm but with how SISU have treated them, I don't blame them for not turning up.
 
Sad situation. I worked the turnstiles at Ricoh for 2 seasons when I was a student at Warwick Uni about 10 years ago - they used to allow us to close the gates 15-20 mins into a game, I'd always find a seat and watch the games - I remember the elation around the place when Leicester came to town and were comfortably beaten 2-0. I also remember being around the club when Ray Ranson bought the club and the relief everyone felt that the club avoided administration. Little did we know that his company would derail the club into unprecedented despair and legal issues. I'll always have a soft spot Coventry and it is devastating to see what has been happening to them since I graduated and left the area.
 
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