“If the supporters had turned out in their numbers at Sixfields…there would not have been such a great pressure to return” - the words of Steven Pressley
- Keep Cov In Cov was the only fans’ group to support the sixfields boycott
- so SP's words mean a lot
- hopefully everyone who has been involved with kcic is feeling very proud
kcic view of the Ricoh return is at -
www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Fans-victory-Coventry-City-return-home
A video clip from the Gillingham game of the roar when the teams came on is at -
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=703752746371909&set=vb.468571966556656&type=2&theater
- Steven Pressley and the team have got us off to a flying start - we're 5th!
- But we are still in the hands of ACL and sisu and they come out of the fiasco looking anything but good and certainly not like efficient and effective businesses
- sisu and ACL's interest is their own financial position – not the interests of the team and supporters
For KCIC, it's job done and we can start retiring to the sidelines but there a lot of questions about what happens now
There are everyday things like the extortionate price of beer at the Ricoh to why can't sixfields ticket prices apply at the Ricoh, certainly for this season?
And there are the big questions
- Will we ever prosper under sisu?
- It's great that Labovitch has gone but Fisher is still here and why are sisu spouting the same old new stadium nonsense?
- The Judicial Review saga starts again next month - why don't sisu drop it?
- How much of our fanbase has been lost and how many will not return till sisu have gone?
- Does the sixfields episode show why only fans can be trusted with the best interests of CCFC?
- Is 'consultation' with selected fans anything like enough or do fans need a proper ownership stake like at other clubs?
- What next for fans?
In the news
The Sky Blue Trust says sisu "tried every tactic of bribery and threats"
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/when-coventry-were-sent-to-northampton-the-fans-revolted.25295442
Fans' victory http://www.fsf.org.uk/blog/view/Fans-victory-Coventry-City-return-home
Steven Pressley hails victory for fan power
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/steven-pressley-hails-victory-for-fan-power-as-coventry-prepare-to-return-to-ricoh-arena-9709988.html
Coventry fans revel in Ricoh return
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2743964/Coventry-fans-revel-Ricoh-Arena-return-1987-FA-Cup-spirit-signals-new-era.html
“The club can put spin on [it]…but it was fan power that counted. It was all the campaigners who highlighted the moral disgrace of moving the club out of the city…The return to the Ricoh was a victory for supporters who refused to accept their club being treated like a franchise, moved around, messed around. Coventry fans never stopped believing, never stopped campaigning.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/coventry-city/11078703/Coventry-City-fans-savour-emotional-homecoming-to-Ricoh-Arena.html
Labovitch's time in quotes -
www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/mark-labovitchs-time-coventry-city-7701779
"The owners of Coventry City football club have not been interested in creating value. They have destroyed the football club not through incompetence but through their deliberate actions. Their interest has been in destroying value to get their hands on the asset at a knockdown price. That is the problem, which is still there, because the owners are still there. I do not believe that they have changed and will now become partners in the local economy, working with the city council and other partners to create a good sporting culture and economic regeneration in my constituency. I do not believe they are that kind of people." Bob Ainsworth MP
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/cm140902/debtext/140902-0003.htm#14090258000002