A List Of Good Things SISU Do For Coventry City Football Club

Closer Each Day, Home Is Away. The Plight Of Coventry City

One of the best experience in all my years as a supporter of Coventry City, and football in general, is that of the Away Day. From deciding on how to travel, what time to set off or who is driving, to enjoying a new ground or returning to one of fond, sour or mixed memories. Nothing beats an away day.

Another great thing is that “Holiday Rules” apply, who cares if it has just gone eight in the morning, it’s an away day. Crack open that can, unless you’re the driver of course. The atmosphere is always friendly on the way. You may see total strangers on the train wearing the same top as you. All of a sudden, they are friends. You may see familiar faces who make the same pilgrimage. Like you, they vowed never again after watching a dismal performance in the rain in some northern town that blended in with other towns over your travels. Yep, I love Away Days.

I moved to Manchester about four years ago, so every time I see the Sky Blues, it’s an away day. Meeting friends in Manchester before boarding a train to somewhere more northern, or making my way down south, it’s still the same buzz. Even trips to the Ricoh were great, an away day for a home game is quite the feeling.

However, that’s changed now.

Now it will be an away day for all Coventry fans. Northampton isn’t that far away but whether it be 30 miles or 300 miles, playing home games outside your home city or town is not on. Especially because you know the reason is that a London based hedge fund is doing a runner from its landlord over unpaid rent, leaving the Coventry taxpayer and a charity to foot the bill.

SISU don’t care about Coventry, they never have. They don’t care about football either. They care about profit. Should they get their profit by stitching up the fans who work those few hours extra to afford their escape for a few hours a week, or by using every loophole they can find to avoid paying what they owe, tough shit, welcome to Capitalism, baby!

How long will Coventry City Football Club not be based in The City of Coventry? A year or two? The smart money seems to be on that, with the Brandon Speedway track looking like a potential new ground. What if that doesn’t come to fruition? Solihull Sky Blues? This is Franchise Football and that suits SISU down to the (new) ground.

Not a penny more. That is the rallying cry I’ve heard. Not a penny more, no more cash being handed over by the fans to the owners. Will we support Coventry should they return from their years in exile? I honestly don’t know if I will. I’m hoping to see something along the lines of what has happened at Wrexham, or Barry Town (who have had it worse than us).

For the first time in my life, I don’t feel like I have a football team to support any more. It’s hard to explain how that feels. They’ve always been a constant in my life. Consistently shit, I hear you guffaw. Yeah, but they are MY team, that’s the point.

Not a penny more.