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I can see how the minstrel thing is offensive but if you're impersonating a black person what's the problem? As you say if a black person was impersonating someone white and did the opposite I wouldn't be in the slightest bit offended.

4-1 to us, why not go out on a high and shift some season tickets!

If they're going to keep making actual kits so slim fitting they should do a different fit for the fans. Not all of us look great in a skin tight top!

Some of them will probably be in the team on Saturday!

Someone was telling me recently that there will only be one train an hour stopping at the Ricoh, potentially less at weekends. Anyone know if that's correct? Apparently they can't add any sort of shuttle service, say from Coventry station to the Ricoh, due to the infrastructure on the line...

No that is not what I think at all. What I do think is that SISU are only here temporarily while the club are, hopefully, here permanently. I think it is the responsibility of the local council to act in the best interests of organisations who have been part of the community for over 100 years...

According to my accountant they're revisiting this and trying their luck in the city (as in the financial district of London) in the last few weeks. Apparently they are looking at financing through retail bonds secured against the stadium (it all started to go a bit over my head at this point)...

If the rumour on here of a change to Nike is correct we'll probably end up with rebadged leftover Man City stock. At least we'll always know what our next kit will be, just look at the current Man City one!

SISU weren't the only show in town. I know of at least 2 other interested parties at the time KPMG were running through the administration process (it was administration in all but name). Unfortunately both of them identified that ownership of the Ricoh was crucial and walked away when it became...

I've been in situations where I've been having commercially confidential discussions regarding taking over a business while other parties were also having commercially confidential discussions about taking over the same business. If I wanted an exclusivity period I'd request it and no doubt...

Ignoring the fact that it would in no way jeopardise commercially confidential negotiations I'll give you a very simple reason: Coventry City Council Coventry City FC Coventry RFC SISU are merely passing owners, here for a brief period in the long history, and hopefully future, of our football...

It means they can't give details of Wasps bid, it does not mean they can't invite offers from others. They do not have to give details of Wasps offer just make it known a 250 year lease is available. You make it sounded like she knew all along. By the time Joy was saying she was aware of the...

No what I am saying is unless Wasps had exclusivity CCC could very easily say to SISU we will consider offers for ACL and as part of any sale we will consider extending the lease. That would in no way breach confidentiality. If there was no exclusivity they could have made it generally known ACL...

You can't say CCC may have offered the lease, with absolutely zero evidence and then assert with total authority that Sepalla wouldn't be interested in a lease. How do you know if what was being said in private was the same as was being said in public? And of course SISU did state they wanted a...

To me if that is the case then it was in the best interest of CCC and Higgs to offer the same deal to the club. Then they could come out and say 'we offered SISU a 250 year lease for under £6m and they weren't interested so we sold it to someone who was'. Not ideal as its still not really a...

A confidentiality agreement needs two parties to sign it. Wasps didn't just thrust it on CCC. They should never have agreed to it and the whole thing should have been out in public. As much as it would give other interested parties to bid it would also have given anyone likely to be adversely...

The original agreement was for CCFC to own 50% of the freehold with CCC owning the other 50%. Late in the day CCC grabbed 100% of the freehold and the football club were left with 50% of ACL. And of course ACL had to pay £20m + for the lease so we definitely got the rough end of that deal! It...

MMM that is complete and utter rubbish. A 250 year lease is to all intents and purposes the same as owning the freehold. If someone says they want to buy the freehold and you would happily sell them a 250 years lease it is absolute insanity to suggest that its for the purchase to request that...

A 40 year lease is very much a lease, a 250 year lease is pretty much the same as owning the freehold. We know SISU repeatedly stated they were interested in the freehold. If the freehold wasn't available but a 250 year lease was the onus is very much on CCC to make that known, it would be the...

At the time ACL had a relatively short lease, something like 45 years left to run. So the pertinent question would be at the meeting mentioned did Lucas make any mention of a 250 year lease being available? A 250 year lease is, to all intents and purposes, the same as freehold.