Isn't there a confidential email address thing you can send your concerns to?
We want to come to the Ricoh Arena for a Coventry City game and feel perfectly safe, enjoying your surroundings and supporting the Sky Blues loud and proud!
Coventry City Football Club have launched a new service for fans to report any safety issues they experience on a matchday.
The new service can be accessed by any fans in the stadium, simply through anonymously texting a designated number on their mobile phone.
These messages will then be picked up directly by the Sky Blues matchday safety team to look into your problem on your behalf.
The process for this is:
Text - 07510327887
Start your message with: 1 for drinking of alcohol, 2 for foul/abusive language, 3 for smoking, 4 for racism, 5 for aggressive behaviour ,
Then put in your seating location.
For example:
1 Block 20 Row G.
3 Block 15 Row NN
The reporting phone number will be shown in the matchday programme and on the big screen at the Ricoh Arena.
For wider feedback about the matchday experience at the Ricoh Arena, Sky Blues fans can e-mail matchday@ccfc.co.uk
Just wanted to see what others are experiencing and get some advice.
I take my two sons aged 8 and ten and a friend of theirs who is also 10. I found myself getting really angry on Saturday with several drunken men effing and c'ing, some of who were also in charge of children.
Several times they left the kids unsupervised while I assume they went and drank beer as they seemed to be more drunk every time they returned. It is difficult to kick off when people have been drinking as they lose all sense of reason and of course I don't want to set a bad example and it is the family zone. Equally I don't want to stop people enjoying themselves, but it pisses me off when kids are left to their own devices, playfighting and fucking about for half an hour at a time whilst the people who brought them take no responsibility for them, spoiling it for others in close proximity.
Should i suck it up, tell the parents or complain to a steward?
There's an email for general matchday things, or on the day you can text.
Cheers for this, I have texted the club
The difficulty is that anybody who pays on the gate ends up in the family zone as it's nearest to the pay turnstiles.
I personally think they should move the family zone back to its original place (adjacent to the away fans in the West Stand).
I think swearing isn't on in the family zone, it should be the place to take kids. The same as if you take kids into block 15 and then moan about swearing for example.
So is it okay to fill the ground with the "your support is fucking shit" song, as long as you are in block 15 ?
What I am saying is that if you take a 6 year old in a block outside the family zone then you can't moan too much about swearing. If you are in the family zone then the kids shouldn't have to hear some of it. The whole idea of a family zone isn't it?
What I am saying is that if you take a 6 year old in a block outside the family zone then you can't moan too much about swearing. If you are in the family zone then the kids shouldn't have to hear some of it. The whole idea of a family zone isn't it?
So you need to be in the corner out the way if you don't like swearing ?
It's generally regarded as offensive, maybe illegal, to swear in any public area so why should we tolerate it at football matches ?
It's a pet hate of mine !!
The woman sat near me a couple of weeks ago was f-ing and blinding all through the game, every time one of our players challenged one of Blackpool's she would bellow " Chop his fucking bollocks off " and the ref took all sorts of stick. Didn't bother me, I found it quite amusing to be honest but it shouldn't be happening in the family zone. Have to confess to the odd expletive myself, football is an emotional sport and brings it out of some people, I think the experience of attending a match has been sanitised enough without trying to ban certain language, it is after all just that, a part of our language.We all have pet hates. But for some football is used as a release. I will never have a go at anyone for the occasional word. But every 30 seconds would be different if women or kids about.
When I was a young kid, I used to love hearing all the shouting (and swearing) in the stands. I don't think it will really do kids any harm in the long run, prefer that to the horrible sanitised 'entertainment' experience that the likes of Wasps try to peddle.
When I was a young kid, I used to love hearing all the shouting (and swearing) in the stands. I don't think it will really do kids any harm in the long run, prefer that to the horrible sanitised 'entertainment' experience that the likes of Wasps try to peddle.
You mean the one that more kids go too ?
Have you got kids ?
Here he is, right on cue.
When you give out numerous free tickets for schools you will have more kids in attendance. Not that it's relevant to this thread.
When I was a young kid, I used to love hearing all the shouting (and swearing) in the stands. I don't think it will really do kids any harm in the long run, prefer that to the horrible sanitised 'entertainment' experience that the likes of Wasps try to peddle.
The family zone is run by unpaid volunteers who are just trying to bring some enjoyment to the matchday experience for the kids. ie playing games and meeting current players.
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