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Coventry City fans will stage a tongue-in-cheek protest against Sisu chief Joy Seppala on Saturday as part of their campaign to keep the club at The Ricoh Arena.
The Sky Blue Trust have pounced on an off-the-cuff remark by chief executive Tim Fisher who said last month: “They should put a statue of Joy Seppala outside the ground for the £45million she has put into the club.”
And now they are planning to meet outside the ground at Noon this Saturday to take him at his word and present their ‘tribute’ to the notoriously camera-shy Finnish-American boss of the hedge fund which is threatening to ground-share for three years and build its own stadium rather than continue to rent the Ricoh from ACL.
Trust spokesman Moz Baker said: “It’s really important fans keep up as much pressure as possible to stop the plan of moving Coventry City outside the city of Coventry, which we know from the Telegraph’s poll and our own members is massively opposed by supporters.
”Building on our recent successful London protest, the Trust’s next event will be at noon on Saturday by the Jimmy Hill statue at the Ricoh Arena.
“The event will be based on Tim Fisher’s recent suggestion that fans should erect a statue of Joy Seppala. Supporters will therefore unveil a ‘statue’ of Ms Seppala so people can look at the Jimmy Hill statue and think of all he achieved for Coventry City and perhaps then reflect on the current owner’s plan to move home games out of Coventry.
“It’s a light hearted way of conveying the very serious message that we must keep Coventry in Coventry.
“There is intrigue as to what the ‘statue’ will look like given that there are no public photographs of Joy Seppala and she has never met with fans, despite invitations from the Trust to do so, but people will just have to come along to the unveiling and see for themselves.
”The Sky Blue Trust is so concerned about the threat to move games outside Coventry that we are branding our campaign as ‘Keep Coventry in Coventry – not one penny more’ and encouraging our members not to buy CCFC shirts or other merchandise until it is confirmed home fixtures will be played at the Ricoh.”
Concerned fans continue to join the campaign via the Telegraph’s petition which has now been signed by over 11,200 people on line and 3,000 by post.
The Sky Blue Trust have pounced on an off-the-cuff remark by chief executive Tim Fisher who said last month: “They should put a statue of Joy Seppala outside the ground for the £45million she has put into the club.”
And now they are planning to meet outside the ground at Noon this Saturday to take him at his word and present their ‘tribute’ to the notoriously camera-shy Finnish-American boss of the hedge fund which is threatening to ground-share for three years and build its own stadium rather than continue to rent the Ricoh from ACL.
Trust spokesman Moz Baker said: “It’s really important fans keep up as much pressure as possible to stop the plan of moving Coventry City outside the city of Coventry, which we know from the Telegraph’s poll and our own members is massively opposed by supporters.
”Building on our recent successful London protest, the Trust’s next event will be at noon on Saturday by the Jimmy Hill statue at the Ricoh Arena.
“The event will be based on Tim Fisher’s recent suggestion that fans should erect a statue of Joy Seppala. Supporters will therefore unveil a ‘statue’ of Ms Seppala so people can look at the Jimmy Hill statue and think of all he achieved for Coventry City and perhaps then reflect on the current owner’s plan to move home games out of Coventry.
“It’s a light hearted way of conveying the very serious message that we must keep Coventry in Coventry.
“There is intrigue as to what the ‘statue’ will look like given that there are no public photographs of Joy Seppala and she has never met with fans, despite invitations from the Trust to do so, but people will just have to come along to the unveiling and see for themselves.
”The Sky Blue Trust is so concerned about the threat to move games outside Coventry that we are branding our campaign as ‘Keep Coventry in Coventry – not one penny more’ and encouraging our members not to buy CCFC shirts or other merchandise until it is confirmed home fixtures will be played at the Ricoh.”
Concerned fans continue to join the campaign via the Telegraph’s petition which has now been signed by over 11,200 people on line and 3,000 by post.