I'd change colours straight away, and the badge
No we haven't, from 1962 and although credited with it it wasn't strictly Jimmy Hills idea to wear Sky Blue, it was supposed to be Coventry Blue which is somewhere inbetween royal blue and sky blue. It was Derek Henderson (Nemo) who christened us the Sky Blues and it stuck.Yep. Of course I would turn down the naff prospect of being one of the top 4 sides in the whole country so I could keep our really, really important badge.
And after all, we've always played in Sky Blue haven't we, right from day one back in1883.
No we haven't, from 1962 and although credited with it it wasn't strictly Jimmy Hills idea to wear Sky Blue, it was supposed to be Coventry Blue which is somewhere inbetween royal blue and sky blue. It was Derek Henderson (Nemo) who christened us the Sky Blues and it stuck.
Driving into work this hideously rainy morning I, as usual, started to muse about the current financial mess we are in and posed the following question to myself (in my mind, not out loud - that would have been weird);
If a potential investor put the following hypothetical offer on the table would you be in favour?;
An investment of such magnitude that it would clearly would put us up with the big 4 within 5 years but the club would have to change its colours to, say, red?
And if you answer yes to that, what if the condition was to change the club colours and the badge?
I, possibly stupidly, wouldn't be in favour of either because I value the Club's traditions too much despite the day by day misery that following CCFC brings me.
After the takeover, Red Bull changed the club's name, management, and staff, declaring "this is a new club with no history." Red Bull initially claimed on the club website that the club was founded in 2005, but was ordered to remove this claim by the Austrian F.A. The new authority removed all trace of violet from the club logo and the team now play in the colours of red and white, to the consternation of much of the club's traditional support. A small pair of wings form the motif of the new club crest, displayed on the team jersey, in accordance with Red Bull's commercial slogan at the time: "It gives you wings."
See this also:Are you thinking of Red Bull who took over Salzburg?
The club was formed in 2005, by some of the supporters of the original SV (Austria) Salzburg after it was renamed FC Red Bull Salzburg by new owners who also changed the club's colours from its traditional violet and white to red and white. The club started participation in the seventh tier of Austria's national league system in 2006, then rose through four successive championships to the third tier, Regionalliga West. After a fifth-place finish in the 2010-2011 season, it will remain in this league for the 2011-2012 season.
If you want to watch 'real' old school football then you can do what they, FC Manchester and Wimbledon fans have done I guess. It's up to the individual.The original club was formed in 1933. It was subject to a takeover by the Red Bull company in 2005. They renamed the club FC Red Bull Salzburg, changed the team colours and claimed that it was a new team. This led a group of supporters, known as the "Violet-Whites", to want to preserve the 72-year old traditions of the old club, which they felt had been ignored by Red Bull.
I hope they would eat chicken drumsticks in the changing room too.
The club would die as it once was, just like FC Al-Shabaab Billionaire Boys Club up in Manchester. The other downside being that the average fan will eventually be priced out of watching the team. Plus glory hangers on.
The upside being that Coventry would have a potentially great sports team which would be known across the world. As long as the name Coventry stayed in there somewhere I'd accept it.
Never mind football looking into the next 5-10 years, imagine what it will be further on, it won't resemble today's football let alone that from 30 years ago.
if we were successful the queues for the bar would be horrendous!
To be honest, I wouldnt want to be mega big! a yo yo club would be nice... (between the championship and Premiership obviously, not league ! and Championship)
No take over untill the club is in administration facing a wind up order, sisu can hope as much as the like for a buyer but 40 million in debt and 6 million a year losses...... we are deader than cordory flares. No-one will buy a club with that amount of debt unless they are very rich or very stupid.
Next stop, division 1 if we are lucky enough to survive.
Lets ditch the Sky Blue and go back to "Coventry" blue and white quartered shirts and the Bantams badge and nicknane........ COME ON YOU BANTAMS !!!!
For me our identity is our badge and colour. Take that away and you take away Coventry City. You might just as well go off and support Aston Villa now, it amounts to the same thing.
which badge?
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