Another meeting in London at 10:00am Hopefully we WILL know where we will be playing Coventry on the weekend 10/11 August
They'll if and but, may be or may be not but there will be a bodge up and they'll carry on but rest assured the legal maggots and suits will make some money and the fans continue to suffer, I have always liked Coventry I hope they survive...
I'm gutted for them after this news. I really hope they can sort things out and continue to carry on in Coventry, even if it results in them almost guaranteeing relegation.
Coventry will start the season, if indeed they do start the season at all with a 15point deduction. The problem now is where if anywhere will games be played as our game is the first of the season it might well be posponed as they will be looking at legal measures to resolve the current situation as CCFC have signed contracts with Ricoh and Northampton to play in both places.
If the Football League decide that until this is sorted Coventry will be unable to complete their fixtures they could be expelled from the league and as such the league will probably continue with 23 teams not 24 as there is no time to promote another team from L2 or indeed from below the League into L2.
Really bad news- Sadly, I don't think it will stop there and there will be more and bigger casualties as time goes on
I really feel badly for Coventry and all the other teams that have suffered, or possibly will suffer, a similar fate. The Football League must surely shoulder a lot of the blame because they have turned a blind eye when it mattered most to ensure the future viability of the game we love. Allowing unsuitable foreign ownership to control the business end of football has been, and will continue to be, a total disaster long in to the future and unless steps are brought in immediately to stop the financial impurities coursing through the life blood of the sport the end will come soon for many more teams struggling to survive. The FFP will only have an effect on those, like us, that don't just pay lip service to the rules but abide by them to the letter. Just look back over the last 5 years and see how many teams have almost gone to the wall based on financial suicide and are forced to compete at a lower level by the restrictions put on them by the Football League hierarchy but I suppose something had to give and I believe the mad kinds of money being spent at the top level do not help the cause of minions like Bristol City and lots of others of the same ilk.
