Sent to Coventry
Members of the top flight for almost three and a half decades without interruption, Coventry City were acquired by a hedge fund whose modus operandum was to issue legal threats against anybody standing in the way of their desire to own the stadium in which the club played. This led to Coventry playing home matches away from the city and to relegation doen to League Two, and the legal ructions are still going on to this day.
Darkness Descends Upon The Sky Blues
The clock was always ticking, but for the perpetually beleaguered supporters of Coventry City, it likely felt this morning as though its hands had started moving considerably more quickly than they had been previously. With time running out before the end...
Coventry City: 151 Days To Go
On Saturday 28th April 2019, Coventry City are due to host Shrewsbury Town in a League One match at the Ricoh Arena. There is, of course, every chance that they may well have a home play-off match to play thereafter - they are currently in...
Coventry & Exeter: An End Of Season Tale Of Two Cities
It might be argued that to support Coventry City is to take a long-term view upon being a football supporter. This season has just ended with the team having finished in sixth place in League Two, a statistic that feels unremarkable until we remember that...
Charlton Athletic & Coventry City: Brothers In Arms
There has been a definite change in tone in the nature of supporter protests against those who are mismanaging some of our football clubs. In years gone by, they could come to feel like an insular matter, and for those looking on from the outside it could feel a...
Steven Pressley & Coventry City’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
When the axe fell, it was at least swift. Steven Pressley's two years in charge of Coventry City Football Club ended yesterday with his dismissal from a club that has dropped into the League One relegation places at just about the most difficult time of the season....
Coventry City & The Franchising Of London Wasps
For a couple of weeks or so, there was something approaching normality at The Ricoh Arena. After an absurd amount of time away, Coventry City Football Club was back home with a team that was performing reasonably well on the pitch, and all was as near as things have...
Home At Last For Coventry City
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. After more than a year of exile thirty-five miles from home in Northampton, Coventry City are to return to the Ricoh Arena in time for their home League One match against Gillingham on Friday 5th September. For a...
Plus ça Change: The High Court Damning Of Coventry City
When the verdict was delivered at the High Court in London earlier this week, it couldn't have been done so in a more emphatic manner. Contrary to the many public statements on behalf of the club over the last few months or so, Mr Justice Hickinbottom ruled that...
No End In Sight To The Agony Of Coventry City Supporters
Steven Pressly celebrated his first anniversary as the manager of Coventry City last Saturday. It didn't turn out to be a particularly happy anniversary for the Sky Blues manager. His team has won just three of its twelve league matches so far in 2014 and, whilst his...
Coventry City, A New Ground, The Charity & The Hedge Fund
A new year has brought little respite for the increasingly beleagured supporters of Coventry City Football Club. On the pitch, the team has gone five games unbeaten since its last defeat at Swindon Town on the Saturday before Christmas, including a win against...
On Coventry City, Cardiff City & Hull City’s Winter Of Discontent
There are three football clubs at which the Christmas period may well prove to be a period of reflection. The circumstances that have engulfed these three clubs over the last few weeks and months have come to act as something of a barometer for the state of...
Divided They Fall: The Great Coventry City Schism
It has been another busy few days for Coventry City Football Club, which has ended with questions again being asked in parliament about the administration process that has proved to be such a big part of where the club is now, a bizarre protest outside the City...
Just Give Them What They Want: Ethics & The Sisu Model At Coventry City
This afternoon, more than three and a half thousand Coventry City supporters have made the journey to Vale Park to watch their team play Port Vale in League One. Under normal circumstances, there wouldn't be anything particularly remarkable about this. Coventry City...
Coventry City: Roles & Responsibilities, Part Two
We will, at a later date, go into the increasingly farcical situation regarding the registration of players of Coventry City, which company may or may not have owned what, and what this may mean, not only for the administration process at the club but also for how...
Here Comes The Judge: Coventry City & The Judicial Review
It has been another long few days for the supporters of Coventry City Football Club, but this evening, as the club's team plays its second competitive match of the season at Leyton Orient in the Football League Cup, there are, for the first time, signs that the...
Coventry City: Roles & Responsibilities
A small insight into what was going on at Coventry City at the time of the original SISU take-over.
Coventry City: Questions & Deductive Reasoning
Questions continue to be asked about the owners of Coventry City Football Club.
Coventry City Supporters: Real Fans Sold Down The River By The Football League
“Real football, real fans,” reads the banner at the head of the Football League’s website, but seldom can those words ever rung more hollow than they do this evening.
Is It Time For A New Football Club For Coventry?
The tide is starting to turn in Coventry, and the likelihood of a new club forming in the fullness of time now seems greater than ever.
Coventry City To Northampton: Another Sky Blue Day Of Reckoning
Simultaneously supine and pompous, the Football League stands accused of killing the spirit of Coventry City.
The Morning After Coventry City’s Night Before
Supporters at some clubs have been radicalised by what has happened to them in the past. At Coventry City, fans seem more interested in bickering amongst themselves.
Grey Clouds Obscure The Sky Blues: No End In Sight For Coventry City
A power play is taking place at Coventry City FC which sums up the very worst of football club ownership issues in 2013.
Coventry City’s Summer Of FUD
Things don’t get any easier for League One club Coventry City, whose owners continue to make pronouncements on its behalf even though the administrator is supposed to be in charge of the stricken club.
SISU Open A Potential Can Of Worms Over Coventry City & State Aid
The hedge-fund’s latest round of legal action threatens opening a can of worms that could have implications for more clubs than just Coventry City.
Anticipated Outcomes For Coventry City
So it turns out that the most obvious explanation is exactly that for obvious reasons, in this case. The Football League, an organisation which has become highly attuned to people trying to game the system over the last ten years or so, passed its verdict on Coventry...
Coventry City Prepare For League Judgement
It has been a day of drama which in many respects revealed very little for Coventry City. The club's recent tit-for-tat spat between its hedge fund owners SISU and ACL, who run the stadium that the club had been using for the previous year (but not paying rent to use...
Utter Confusion Reigns At Coventry City
It has been a busy week for Coventry City Football Club. On the pitch the team itself remains just three points from the play-off places as the season ends its closing stages, but few eyes are concentrated on events on the pitch at present, as the breakdown in the...
Does Administration – Or Perhaps Even Liquidation – Now Beckon For Coventry City?
This evening at The Ricoh Arena in front of a paltry looking crowd of less than 9,500 people, a free kick two minutes into stoppage time at the end of the match between Coventry City and Colchester United rescued a point for the home team which might have previously...
Imminent Concerns For Coventry City
Loyalty and football have seldom been happy bedfellows, but supporters of League One club Coventry City could well be wondering this morning who is fighting their corner after a week of extremely bad news, with the departure of Mark Robins, a manager who had...
Match Of The Past: Coventry City
Boxing Day seems like the ideal day for repeats, so this afternoon we continue our series of archive matches from the clubs of League One with Coventry City. The club has been suffering hard times of late, but today we go back to take a look at six matches from the...
No Sky Blues Ahead Just Yet: Coventry City’s Statutory Demand
Over the last few weeks or so, it had been starting to look as if Coventry City finally had a fighting chance of turning a corner after a lengthy trough. A dismal start to the season saw manager Andy Thorn become one of the first managerial casualties of the season...
Coventry City’s Relegation Marks A New Low For SISU
It has been forty-eight years since Coventry City last played in the bottom two divisions of the Football League. Under the managership of Jimmy Hill, they returned to the Second Division for the first time in twelve years as champions of the Third Division, and three...
Sky Blues & Grey Clouds – The Decline Of Coventry City
Matches in the Third Round of The FA Cup frequently draw attendances that are lower than they would be otherwise. The simple fact that tickets are not usually provided as part of annual season tickets combined with the possibility of people feeling the pinch in the...