Fans will be they will be going to other games instead. Better fun elsewhere not in a retail park flat pack stadium with the hosts(!!!) support fifty miles away. That is no part of the future I want to see. US is a broad thing the us I know isn't going.
Coventry were in the top division in 1982 ... Fans of other clubs did make donations. Fans of other clubs did have sympathy. City fans have done likewise. The phrase associated with BCFC was support the club now or never. The club was selling shares at the time to fans in order to finance a club situated in BS3, residing in its own stadium. It is not a parallel. BCFC were not in conflict with its support in 82.
ASPolice BCFC ‏@ASPoliceBCFC 15m #Bristolcity have pre-sold over 650 tickets for this Sunday's fixture against #coventrycity in Northampton
Correct Cliftonville. In 1982 Bristol City folded due to serious mistakes regarding the value of players contracts, but those same people were trying along with others, as appears not to be the case at Coventry, to save the club and continue playing at Ashton Gate. I spent my last £80 on shares, late wife moaned a bit, but I told her it was for the future of the club so that children who came after me would have the same opportunity as I did as a boy, to watch and follow Bristol City. I along with a few thousand others who did likewise and the sacrifice by the "Eight" means we are still able to do that some 31 years later. And for me, while I have every sympathy with Coventry fans, if I was in UK this coming weekend, I would be at Northampton supporting my team.
You can go on all day about the situation at Coventry but the simple fact is that we had nothing to do with it. We have to focus on the only thing that matters, and that is us - Bristol City! I guess that about sums up one side of the argument: I happen to be on the other side. I happen to think we are all part of a community, and that what diminishes one diminishes all. We have something to do with it. But as others have pointed out - you can follow your own ethics; it's a free (for now) country.
1982 Bristol City could have been a Coventry. BRFC attempted to purchase Ashton Gate. Football clubs belong in their own Communities. It is a simple task to observe and support that basic principle. I have sympathy for Coventry. Like hundreds of others that sympathy will be displayed by non attendance. That non attendance appears to be total amongst my peers. Attendance within sub sections of City is not a consideration.
had this tweet from a coventry fan I wrote 'how many 'home' supporters are you expecting to turn up? #bcfc #ccfc martin sutton ‏@covmartin 26m @Hoooray4Boobies not much more than the 500 sold to be honest. We'll be at the Ricoh for a legends match kicking off an hour earlier
