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Queens Fish Bar 12:30 Fri Feb 22
Cov city getting booted out of the league?
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Coventry City Football Club has received a formal letter from the EFL Board with a final request for clarity regarding where the Club will play home matches in the 2019/20 season.
Following receipt of the letter, we felt it was important to make Sky Blues fans and the wider community aware of this letter and the dates outlined in it.
Coventry City has until Tuesday 5th March 2019 to provide a further update to the EFL Board. Should a satisfactory solution not be found over the next two months, an Extraordinary General Meeting of EFL Clubs will be convened to consider Coventry City’s expulsion from the English Football League.
This meeting would be held on Thursday 25th April – this is to provide clarity regarding Coventry City’s future membership in advance of relegation and promotion issues being resolved during the run-in to the end of the season.
These dates show how stark the situation facing the Football Club now is and that time is running out.
Our only option is to continue to play at our home, the Ricoh Arena.
Coventry City Football Club wants to do a deal with Wasps Rugby Club as soon as possible, to resolve this impasse so that the dates above are not encountered.
All parties now need to work together for good of Coventry City Football Club, its supporters, the Ricoh Arena, the City of Coventry and our community – the continued future of the Football Club needs to be everyone’s focus to prevent more heartache and worry.
No one should be in any doubt of the significance of Coventry City to Coventry – not in the past, now or in the future.
The Westminster meeting in early March called by the Minister of State for Culture, Media and Sport, inviting all of the key parties is an opportunity to resolve this issue. However, our offers to meet with both Coventry City Council, as freehold owner and the democratically elected local authority, and Wasps RFC, as landlord, still remain open - in the hope that a deal can be agreed before the Westminster meeting is necessary.
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El Scorchio
12:33 Fri Feb 22
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Rather sad. Hope they can find a way to remain.
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Percy Dalton
12:38 Fri Feb 22
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Fuck 'em
Didn't their lot kill one of ours years ago?
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SnarestoneIron
1:24 Fri Feb 22
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You'd hope another club would step in and off a ground share. Plenty of Midlands teams
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RBshorty
1:33 Fri Feb 22
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For that 87 cup final. I'll always have a soft spot for Coventry. Sad news indeed if they go under.
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the coming of gary
1:41 Fri Feb 22
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ive been folllowing East Londons own Jodi JONES as he plays for them. Terrible luck with cruciate injuries ; still only 21 though.
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Sven Roeder
1:44 Fri Feb 22
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What sort of idiots would play in a ground they don’t own???
Hopefully Coventry will get the Olympics soon and sort them out
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Mr. Burns
1:44 Fri Feb 22
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John SILLETT & George CURTIS
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stirlinghammer
1:52 Fri Feb 22
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this is what happens when you move to a shit soulless stadium...thanks Sky.
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violator
1:52 Fri Feb 22
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Ian WALLACE
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Haz
1:57 Fri Feb 22
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All Coventry are cunts. . . .
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Mike Oxsaw
2:09 Fri Feb 22
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Chelsea to buy them as a feeder club as a way around their transfer ban.
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cholo
2:11 Fri Feb 22
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Dave BENNETT will be gutted.
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Jez
2:28 Fri Feb 22
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Good luck to them. Remember the days of Big Oggy in goal and Big Cyrille upfront. '87 Cup Final is still my favourite (too young to remember '80).
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Russ of the BML
2:55 Fri Feb 22
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They can always just go down the road and support Daventry.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:06 Fri Feb 22
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Whilst it IS sad that we lose a team that forms part of the backdrop of professional football that many of us grew up with, a football club has no more right to exist than a high street shop.
Football has chosen the commercial path over the sporting one, and so it is now subject to the full set of commercial rules governing business.
What I'd also want to look at is "who will replace them should they drop/fold?"
Is the owner of a lower-league team attempting to buy their way into the top four divisions by fair means or foul?
There can't be that many teams at the 5th level who's grounds meet the required football league criteria, no matter who actually wins that particular division.
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iron
3:18 Fri Feb 22
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Coventry always seemed to be a team that we would rarely lose against and they would class us as a bogey team.
Highfield Road was always a brilliant away day, many good times in the Sky Blue Tavern !
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El Scorchio
3:24 Fri Feb 22
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It's true. The club as a business, strictly speaking has no more right to exist than any other one, but it's more what it means to the local community and the thousands of supporters.
You could argue that this is comeuppance for past decisions by owners etc but it's the fans and the city that will suffer and I think the business of football as a whole owes it to them to do what can be done to help them exist. The owners probably don't deserve anything, but the fans do. Those who are basically powerless to watch their club go down in flames.
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Lee Trundle
3:36 Fri Feb 22
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COBI Jones
Peter NDLOVU
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Mike Oxsaw
3:41 Fri Feb 22
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Wouls the "local" community or businesses really suffer if a team that played in a new out-of-town, away from it's roots stadium really suffer?
If they've followed our business model on our move, they've tried to bring/force all the ancillary match day activities in-house - before we moved, people has dozens of choices on where to eat/drink/buy souvenirs/etc.
Now it's all run by club authorised sub-contractors and/or licensed vendors (and you can bet the club has a veto on those licences, whatever the fine print claims). The caterers and bar operators at the O/S don't even need to be local, neither do their suppliers.
In our case, the once-local businesses have already lost out, so if we fold, the impact will be almost fully "internalized".
I suspect the same for Coventry City.
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Mike the Hammer
3:41 Fri Feb 22
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Let them play at Wembley...
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