Comment From City's South
African Supporters
Association
By Mike Monk
Updated Sunday, 22nd April 2012
One City Supporter Club's View
Some years back when City were in the
Premiership and our home was Highfield Road –
remember these heady times? – I remember
seeing a book in the Sky Blue Shop proclaiming
“If Titanic was painted Sky Blue, it wouldn’t have
gone down”. Ironic, then, that a couple of days
after the centenary of that ship’s sinking,
Coventry City Football Club lose at “home” (let’s
be real, the Ricoh – a FIFA approved, state-of-
the-art, Olympic soccer stadium – is rented
property) to a team that is already relegated and
without scoring a goal, sinking the club to the
depths of third-tier soccer for the first time in
nigh-on 50 years. It’s a disgrace.
I firmly believe the rot set in with the
Richardson/Strachan era. The club was put into
crippling debt and the set on a slippery slope
towards the depths of the Football League
during which time nothing of significant
consequence was done to stop the slide.
I still remember standing at the Kop end behind
the goal at that pivotal Kings Lynn FA Cup defeat
and feeling downright miserable, only to be
shortly swept up in the launch of the Jimmy Hill
Sky Blue revolution and being part of a roller-
coaster ride to the height of English soccer.
What are the chances of something similar
happening again? Very, very little I fear. The
current powers that be need to be shipped off
into the sunset, hanging their collective heads in
shame, and replaced with people with money, a
genuine love and understanding of the game
and a realisation that Coventry City Football Club
should be the pride of the Midlands, not playing
the role of little orphan Annie.
Dare I say that in recent memory the other team
that wears Sky Blue managed to go from three
to one, and look where that team is now. Oh
that something similar should happen to
Coventry City. Takers anyone?
Let’s all sigh together...
Mike Monk
Chairman
Coventry City Cape Town Supporters Club
Good article, and I fully agree. Wish more local supporter groups chair people would grow some balls and do similar.
Link.
http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/comment_from_citys_south_african_supporters_association_741255/index.shtml
African Supporters
Association
By Mike Monk
Updated Sunday, 22nd April 2012
One City Supporter Club's View
Some years back when City were in the
Premiership and our home was Highfield Road –
remember these heady times? – I remember
seeing a book in the Sky Blue Shop proclaiming
“If Titanic was painted Sky Blue, it wouldn’t have
gone down”. Ironic, then, that a couple of days
after the centenary of that ship’s sinking,
Coventry City Football Club lose at “home” (let’s
be real, the Ricoh – a FIFA approved, state-of-
the-art, Olympic soccer stadium – is rented
property) to a team that is already relegated and
without scoring a goal, sinking the club to the
depths of third-tier soccer for the first time in
nigh-on 50 years. It’s a disgrace.
I firmly believe the rot set in with the
Richardson/Strachan era. The club was put into
crippling debt and the set on a slippery slope
towards the depths of the Football League
during which time nothing of significant
consequence was done to stop the slide.
I still remember standing at the Kop end behind
the goal at that pivotal Kings Lynn FA Cup defeat
and feeling downright miserable, only to be
shortly swept up in the launch of the Jimmy Hill
Sky Blue revolution and being part of a roller-
coaster ride to the height of English soccer.
What are the chances of something similar
happening again? Very, very little I fear. The
current powers that be need to be shipped off
into the sunset, hanging their collective heads in
shame, and replaced with people with money, a
genuine love and understanding of the game
and a realisation that Coventry City Football Club
should be the pride of the Midlands, not playing
the role of little orphan Annie.
Dare I say that in recent memory the other team
that wears Sky Blue managed to go from three
to one, and look where that team is now. Oh
that something similar should happen to
Coventry City. Takers anyone?
Let’s all sigh together...
Mike Monk
Chairman
Coventry City Cape Town Supporters Club
Good article, and I fully agree. Wish more local supporter groups chair people would grow some balls and do similar.
Link.
http://www.coventrycity-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/comment_from_citys_south_african_supporters_association_741255/index.shtml