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  • Start date Feb 28, 2020
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joemercersaces

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #1
I feel blue about Coventry’s lacklustre plans for UK City of Culture | Times2 | The Times

Some comments added re Council and Wasps. Some bloke really biting.

Edit - my people at SBT tell me this is all behind a paywall, see below for the pertinent text.
 
Last edited: Feb 28, 2020

SkyBlueSoul

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #2
joemercersaces said:
I feel blue about Coventry’s lacklustre plans for UK City of Culture | Times2 | The Times

Some comments added re Council and Wasps. Some bloke really biting.
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We'll take your word for it, it's behind a paywall
 
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mark82

Super Moderator
  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #3
joemercersaces said:
I feel blue about Coventry’s lacklustre plans for UK City of Culture | Times2 | The Times

Some comments added re Council and Wasps. Some bloke really biting.
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You'll have to screenshot it. Behind a pay wall.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #4
Not sure if you know, it's behind a paywall.
 
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mmttww

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #5
Is it behind a pay wall, though?
 
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Johhny Blue

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #6
I blame Trump
 

David O'Day

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #7
Paywall Murdoch bastards
 

clint van damme

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #8
is it behind a paywall by any chance?
 
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The Great Eastern

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #9
Paywall preferable to MillWALL.
 
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joemercersaces

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #10
Sorry chaps,apparently it was behind a paywall!

Someone commented about City of Culture:

“It’s also to be a City of Sport. Ironic really that the city’s football team, the 137 year old Coventry City FC have been thrown out of the stadium built for it, by the owners the immigrant rugby club formerly known as London Wasps, who were sold the stadium on a 250 year lease by Coventry City Council, who also ignored the impact on the once mighty Coventry RFC. The Sky Blues, currently play in Birmingham, apparently because they refused to indemnify Wasps against any possible financial loss incurred if the European Union rule that the sale by the Council was dodgy. You couldn’t make this up.”

Then a John Gibson replied:

“You just have. Wasps would welcome CCFC back with open arms if the SISU were not involved in the equation. Over 90% of the Sky Blues fans want them out as well! You are not Les Reid in another guise, are you?”

OP put:

“Well that touched a nerve didn’t it? And you are? I’m not Les Reid but someone who has supported CCFC since 1969. Just where did you pluck your claim about what 90% of us think from? Are you aware that in a recent poll 97% of hundreds of respondents on Sky Blues Talk, a Coventry City fans forum, backed a statement saying exactly what I’ve said? Have I dreamed up the indemnity issue, I don’t think so. We used to blame everything on SISU, the owners, but now many of us see something very murky in the Council’s love-in with Wasps.”
 
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BornSlippySkyBlue

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #11
joemercersaces said:
Sorry chaps,apparently it was behind a paywall!

Someone commented about City of Culture:

“It’s also to be a City of Sport. Ironic really that the city’s football team, the 137 year old Coventry City FC have been thrown out of the stadium built for it, by the owners the immigrant rugby club formerly known as London Wasps, who were sold the stadium on a 250 year lease by Coventry City Council, who also ignored the impact on the once mighty Coventry RFC. The Sky Blues, currently play in Birmingham, apparently because they refused to indemnify Wasps against any possible financial loss incurred if the European Union rule that the sale by the Council was dodgy. You couldn’t make this up.”

Then a John Gibson replied:

“You just have. Wasps would welcome CCFC back with open arms if the SISU were not involved in the equation. Over 90% of the Sky Blues fans want them out as well! You are not Les Reid in another guise, are you?”

OP put:

“Well that touched a nerve didn’t it? And you are? I’m not Les Reid but someone who has supported CCFC since 1969. Just where did you pluck your claim about what 90% of us think from? Are you aware that in a recent poll 97% of hundreds of respondents on Sky Blues Talk, a Coventry City fans forum, backed a statement saying exactly what I’ve said? Have I dreamed up the indemnity issue, I don’t think so. We used to blame everything on SISU, the owners, but now many of us see something very murky in the Council’s love-in with Wasps.”
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C’mon then, who was it?
 

shmmeee

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #12
Oh god that comments cringe.
 

David O'Day

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #13
Can't be me, no one got called a c**t
 

joemercersaces

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #14
shmmeee said:
Oh god that comments cringe.
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Is that even English? Or an attempt at the opening line of a hymn?
 
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Covstu

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #15
Put the fucking paywall back up
 

David O'Day

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #16
Covstu said:
Put the fucking paywall back up
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Can you pay to unread something?
 
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clint van damme

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  • Feb 28, 2020
  • #17
David O'Day said:
Can you pay to unread something?
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how much you willing to pay?
 
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