I sent this letter to Greg Dyke on April 11, still waiting for a reply....
"Mr Dyke, as a passionate supporter of Coventry City for around 55 years it is baffling in the extreme to watch the lack of football authorities intervention in the sorry saga around my club.
As you will know, I hope, that the club owners Sisu have taken my team to play their ‘home’ games in Northampton. 35 miles away. They did this in the face of fierce opposition from fans. We protested, it fell on deaf ears.
Sisu took the club away having not paid the rent at our Coventry home at the Ricoh for a year. The Council here offered radical rent reductions, even free rent for a season. Sisu ignored all this.
It seems they bullied the Football League with the ultimatum – sanction our stay in Northampton or we will wind up the club. The League went along with this. Us fans couldn’t believe what we were witnessing.
The League did stipulate, we are led to believe, that Sisu show plans for a new ground. One year later there is not a shred of evidence that Sisu have made one inch of progress in this. Freedom of information searches by proactive Coventry fans have revealed that no approaches to local authorities surrounding Coventry have been made by Sisu – relating to possible building of a new ground. Not one.
Us Coventry City fans are well aware that Sisu, a hedge fund, are intent on trying to secure the Ricoh Arena at a knock down price by distressing the ACL company that currently runs it.
They have absolutely no interest in football matters.
How on earth the Football League, the Football Association have not intervened here, we in Coventry just cannot understand.
The owner of Hull City wants to change their club name and you intervene. Coventry City FC are moved to another town for purely financial reasons and nothing is done.
What is going on?"
"Mr Dyke, as a passionate supporter of Coventry City for around 55 years it is baffling in the extreme to watch the lack of football authorities intervention in the sorry saga around my club.
As you will know, I hope, that the club owners Sisu have taken my team to play their ‘home’ games in Northampton. 35 miles away. They did this in the face of fierce opposition from fans. We protested, it fell on deaf ears.
Sisu took the club away having not paid the rent at our Coventry home at the Ricoh for a year. The Council here offered radical rent reductions, even free rent for a season. Sisu ignored all this.
It seems they bullied the Football League with the ultimatum – sanction our stay in Northampton or we will wind up the club. The League went along with this. Us fans couldn’t believe what we were witnessing.
The League did stipulate, we are led to believe, that Sisu show plans for a new ground. One year later there is not a shred of evidence that Sisu have made one inch of progress in this. Freedom of information searches by proactive Coventry fans have revealed that no approaches to local authorities surrounding Coventry have been made by Sisu – relating to possible building of a new ground. Not one.
Us Coventry City fans are well aware that Sisu, a hedge fund, are intent on trying to secure the Ricoh Arena at a knock down price by distressing the ACL company that currently runs it.
They have absolutely no interest in football matters.
How on earth the Football League, the Football Association have not intervened here, we in Coventry just cannot understand.
The owner of Hull City wants to change their club name and you intervene. Coventry City FC are moved to another town for purely financial reasons and nothing is done.
What is going on?"