Naturally our views are conditioned by our own experiences, Away games at Highfield Road in the top division in the 1980s were entirely grim affairs, usually culminating in a depressing defeat on a barren desert of a pitch. Crap pubs: The Rocket? Also, as a working photographer I was once commissioned to do some pictures inside a car plant in Coventry. The security jobsworth on the gate said I was at the wrong gate and needed the next one, a quarter of a mile off. And the security jobsworth at that gate said exactly the same and sent me back. I was carrying heavy gear and feared being late for the appointment. Bastards.
Naturally our views are conditioned by our own experiences,8i Away games at Highfield Road in the top division in the 1980s were entirely grim affairs, usually culminating in a depressing defeat on a barren desert of a pitch. Crap pubs: The Rocket? Also, as a working photographer I was once commissioned to do some pictures inside a car plant in Coventry. The security jobsworth on the gate said I was at the wrong gate and needed the next one, a quarter of a mile off. And the security jobsworth at that gate said exactly the same and sent me back. I was carrying heavy gear and feared being late for the appointment. Bastards.
Always happened to me when I used to visit Standard Triumph at Canley ( just outside Coventry)
Naturally our views are conditioned by our own experiences,8i Away games at Highfield Road in the top division in the 1980s were entirely grim affairs, usually culminating in a depressing defeat on a barren desert of a pitch. Crap pubs: The Rocket? Also, as a working photographer I was once commissioned to do some pictures inside a car plant in Coventry. The security jobsworth on the gate said I was at the wrong gate and needed the next one, a quarter of a mile off. And the security jobsworth at that gate said exactly the same and sent me back. I was carrying heavy gear and feared being late for the appointment. Bastards.
Always happened to me when I used to visit Standard Triumph at Canley ( just outside Coventry)
To be fair, you get jobsworths all over, even in Greenwich!
I'm sure Coventry have their share of decent normal supporters and we should relate to their plight - having to play home games at a remote location with no history, even if it isn't quite such a s####hole. I hope they organise and find a way back but the difference is that they don't have a spiritual home fenced off badly and covered in weeds.
I see the RICOH were charging 1.2M for use of the stadium with limited revenue from the catering and parking, and they then mad an offer of 150,000 quid in league 1 rising to 400,000 in the championship. First point is congratulations to the Coventry board for accepting such a daft proposal in the first place and thus shafting themselves and the club good and proper. Are we supposed to feel sorry for such por business acumen? Secondly, the fact that the stadium felt able to revise their offer so drastically downwards shows they were raking it in during previous seasons, and have now woken up to the fact that having killed the Golden goose, there are'nt many alternative clubs around who'll want to pay that sort of money. I hope they go under too, and then someone can tear it down and plant some tres instead.
Rant over!
The problem is that someone had to buy the land and build the 32,000 capacity stadium. The repayments on the loan are probably significantly more than £150k a year.
Coventry make up for less than 5% of the income generated by the stadium and adjoining complex apparently.
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Always happened to me when I used to visit Standard Triumph at Canley ( just outside Coventry)
I'm sure Coventry have their share of decent normal supporters and we should relate to their plight - having to play home games at a remote location with no history, even if it isn't quite such a s####hole. I hope they organise and find a way back but the difference is that they don't have a spiritual home fenced off badly and covered in weeds.