ccfc fan in peace
14-05-2013, 08:48 PM
Dear All,
As of 15 years ago my beloved club Coventry City was rubbing shoulders with you in the Premier League .* Some of you may have seen recently but our current owners a Mayfair-based Hedgefund Investment Company named SISU our planning to take the club outside the City of Coventry itself and have been holding the Club to ransom for sometime. A company that no longer has any interest in the football club it owns (if it ever did), only in seizing control of the stadium it plays in.* To keep this as short as possible: They have tried to do this by not paying rent since April 2012, in an effort to destabilise the Council-owned company that runs the stadium Arena Coventry Limited (ACL) and get the Ricoh Arena on the cheap. The Council stepped in and bailed out ACL in January with a multimillion pound loan. A legal dispute followed over non-payment of rent. SISU have also had the nerve to take the Council to the High Court over their bailout of ACL under the umbrella of 'Judicial Review'!* What has happened at our club is nothing short of a disgrace and should never again be allowed to happen at any club in this country. It is the perfect example of why fan involvement at board level (the likes of which you see more of abroad) should be encouraged rather than letting a bunch of self-interest faceless investors mismanage their way into the mess we are now witnessing.* We, the fans, are more or less powerless to do anything about the situation and have been forced to watch our club being dragged through the dirt. We've been treated as nothing more than pawns in a game of brinksmanship between SISU and the Council. The latest in this long running saga is that SISU are threatening to take the club out of the City, claiming they have been 'locked out' of the Ricoh Arena, something vehemently denied by ACL. Our local paper, the Coventry Telegraph, have started a petition to put pressure on those responsible to sort out this mess and ensure the club stays in the City.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/spo...ventry-3414872
SISU are planning to move Coventry City home fixtures to Nene Park (Allegedly) which is 40 Miles away from The Ricoh Arena, this is like asking Liverpool fans to move to Manchester and as CCFC fans we can't take it much more as our club is on it's knees.* It would be greatly appreciated by us City fans if as many Liverpool fans would take the a second to sign the petition - name and email only.*
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/k...y-in-coventry/
I'd like to think that had it been the shoe on the other foot then we would have happily have done the same. Good luck next season and good luck in qualifying for the champions league.
Many Thanks*
As of 15 years ago my beloved club Coventry City was rubbing shoulders with you in the Premier League .* Some of you may have seen recently but our current owners a Mayfair-based Hedgefund Investment Company named SISU our planning to take the club outside the City of Coventry itself and have been holding the Club to ransom for sometime. A company that no longer has any interest in the football club it owns (if it ever did), only in seizing control of the stadium it plays in.* To keep this as short as possible: They have tried to do this by not paying rent since April 2012, in an effort to destabilise the Council-owned company that runs the stadium Arena Coventry Limited (ACL) and get the Ricoh Arena on the cheap. The Council stepped in and bailed out ACL in January with a multimillion pound loan. A legal dispute followed over non-payment of rent. SISU have also had the nerve to take the Council to the High Court over their bailout of ACL under the umbrella of 'Judicial Review'!* What has happened at our club is nothing short of a disgrace and should never again be allowed to happen at any club in this country. It is the perfect example of why fan involvement at board level (the likes of which you see more of abroad) should be encouraged rather than letting a bunch of self-interest faceless investors mismanage their way into the mess we are now witnessing.* We, the fans, are more or less powerless to do anything about the situation and have been forced to watch our club being dragged through the dirt. We've been treated as nothing more than pawns in a game of brinksmanship between SISU and the Council. The latest in this long running saga is that SISU are threatening to take the club out of the City, claiming they have been 'locked out' of the Ricoh Arena, something vehemently denied by ACL. Our local paper, the Coventry Telegraph, have started a petition to put pressure on those responsible to sort out this mess and ensure the club stays in the City.
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/spo...ventry-3414872
SISU are planning to move Coventry City home fixtures to Nene Park (Allegedly) which is 40 Miles away from The Ricoh Arena, this is like asking Liverpool fans to move to Manchester and as CCFC fans we can't take it much more as our club is on it's knees.* It would be greatly appreciated by us City fans if as many Liverpool fans would take the a second to sign the petition - name and email only.*
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/k...y-in-coventry/
I'd like to think that had it been the shoe on the other foot then we would have happily have done the same. Good luck next season and good luck in qualifying for the champions league.
Many Thanks*