Football Governance - Coventry City (and others)

Twas just watching Wasps-Leinster at the Ricoh Arena. It was fairly full and since Wasps have moved to Coventry last month they have been getting 25k+ attendances. Very impressive for a team parachuted into the city.


Coventry since their return to the Ricoh had a sell them out on their first game but have regularly posted 10-12k attendances.

Coventry looks like Rugby country now. The large Football clubs in the whole Greater Birmingham area look dead (Villa, Birmingham) . WBA not doing too badly, Wolves mostly miss than hit.

The Birmingham Bears (formerly Warickshire) T20 cricket team were quite popular last summer too. There seems to be a shift away from the uninspiring football clubs to newer teams on the up.

Edited by Landon Donovan - 24 Jan 2015 at 4:03pm

Not my place to be the negative person but I can't see this working at all purely Coventry City isn't the first club which this sort of thing has happened to - You just have to look at the situation between MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon.

colemanY2K wrote: Signed and have spread the word to several folk in England.

Edited by Monners - 07 Feb 2014 at 9:43pm

Good man Monners

Stick about on YBiG

Monners wrote: Unlikely that there is anything illegal - more about fit and proper persons, and hence the need for strong governance in the game. The plight of my club is all about money and investers, and not the fans and their communities. The footballing authorities have allowed this to happen. Other clubs are and will suffer in a similar fashion, look at Leeds new owner - a convicted fraudster, Wimbledon, Cardiff, Hull and the Glazers at Man Utd (dunoing debt aon the club to serve investors)   Football has indeed gone to sh*t.

What have the owners of Cardiff and Hull done wrong? (and dont say something petty like changing the jerseys or the Tigers thing )

If Coventry fans want a club about the fans and community then they shoud start up a new club like Wimbledon and FC United did. Or is walking away from league football too much? If the fan agenda was really about creating a club for the fans and community, the fans would have walked away ages ago to set up a new club. But they didnt because they only really care about league football.

Coventry City FC belongs to the owners, not the fans. They can run the club as sh*tly as they like. Unless football fans do what the likes of AFC Wimbledon and FC United did then stop whinging. The only reason why they dont do it because the only really care about big-time football.

Hoosay wrote: Signed

Thanks Hoosay - spread the word

Those resident in the UK can sign regardless of nationality. The idea is to spread the word on the issues, and for encourage those that cn to sign.

Some of those petitions are a f**king joke. Can people not spell check something that they want to be taken seriously?

Shouldn't that petition be for British citizens only?