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Telegraph says: Sisu should bring Sky Blues back or sell up9 Aug 2013 07:41Hedge fund need to act now to avoid 'catastrophe unfolding before our eyes'
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Ricoh Arena, long-time home of Coventry City FC
At 3pm on Sunday a referee’s whistle will signal the end of Coventry City as we know it.
After 130 years of playing in Coventry, the Sky Blues will become a Northampton-based club and its current owners will have stained the history of a once proud sporting institution.
With the club torn from the community it is supposed to serve, it is now almost pointless playing the blame game. We are where we are, 34 miles apart.
Why was it so hard for Sisu and ACL to agree a deal? That’s a question probably best answered by a High Court judge. And what Mr Justice Males said earlier this week vindicated at least one part of ACL’s conduct in this appalling tug-of-war.
Sisu are the owners of your club - the latest in a long line of custodians of something that goes far beyond a balance sheet and a registration number at Companies House.
It is a responsibility they should shoulder with great care. The Telegraph said on July 5 that it was vital that Coventry City remained in Coventry – and that if Sisu couldn’t guarantee that then they should move aside for someone who could.
Today, on behalf of the Sky Blue Army, we repeat that demand.
Everyone knows what the fans think. More than 15,000 have signed our City Must Stay petition and 7,000 voted with their feet as they marched to Broadgate in a protest organised by the Sky Blue Trust.
Sky Blues fans at the Keep Coventry In Coventry protest Supporters will vote with their feet again this weekend as they flock to the Ricoh Arena in their thousands while only hundreds are expected at Sixfields.
All the fans want is to see is their club playing in Coventry. The club say that will happen (in the Coventry area) - in three to five years.
Sisu have said the move to Northampton is necessary to safeguard the financial future of the club. So far, the move has decimated ticket sales, sponsorship revenue, and kit sales. It is a catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.
A football club only exists through its fans. Without them it is nothing. To put it into a hedge fund’s language, a business only exists through its customers. Four hundred season tickets is not going to keep Coventry City alive while a new stadium is built - if it ever is.
Perhaps we are dreamers, but we still hope a deal can be done, so we ask Sisu, politely, to please bring the club back to where it belongs.
If that happens, the Telegraph would urge all loyal City supporters to get behind their team and fill the Ricoh Arena and the club’s coffers in a united effort to overcome the ten-point deduction and get Steven Pressley’s boys climbing the league table. That’s where our focus should be.
If they can’t or won’t then we ask, firmly, that they do the decent thing and sell the club to somebody who will.
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At 3pm on Sunday a referee’s whistle will signal the end of Coventry City as we know it.
After 130 years of playing in Coventry, the Sky Blues will become a Northampton-based club and its current owners will have stained the history of a once proud sporting institution.
With the club torn from the community it is supposed to serve, it is now almost pointless playing the blame game. We are where we are, 34 miles apart.
Why was it so hard for Sisu and ACL to agree a deal? That’s a question probably best answered by a High Court judge. And what Mr Justice Males said earlier this week vindicated at least one part of ACL’s conduct in this appalling tug-of-war.
Sisu are the owners of your club - the latest in a long line of custodians of something that goes far beyond a balance sheet and a registration number at Companies House.
It is a responsibility they should shoulder with great care. The Telegraph said on July 5 that it was vital that Coventry City remained in Coventry – and that if Sisu couldn’t guarantee that then they should move aside for someone who could.
Today, on behalf of the Sky Blue Army, we repeat that demand.
Everyone knows what the fans think. More than 15,000 have signed our City Must Stay petition and 7,000 voted with their feet as they marched to Broadgate in a protest organised by the Sky Blue Trust.
All the fans want is to see is their club playing in Coventry. The club say that will happen (in the Coventry area) - in three to five years.
Sisu have said the move to Northampton is necessary to safeguard the financial future of the club. So far, the move has decimated ticket sales, sponsorship revenue, and kit sales. It is a catastrophe unfolding before our eyes.
A football club only exists through its fans. Without them it is nothing. To put it into a hedge fund’s language, a business only exists through its customers. Four hundred season tickets is not going to keep Coventry City alive while a new stadium is built - if it ever is.
Perhaps we are dreamers, but we still hope a deal can be done, so we ask Sisu, politely, to please bring the club back to where it belongs.
If that happens, the Telegraph would urge all loyal City supporters to get behind their team and fill the Ricoh Arena and the club’s coffers in a united effort to overcome the ten-point deduction and get Steven Pressley’s boys climbing the league table. That’s where our focus should be.
If they can’t or won’t then we ask, firmly, that they do the decent thing and sell the club to somebody who will.
