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I genuinely find this idea exciting, but again, the pre-requisite being that CCFC has ceased to be beforehand.

Isn’t that effectively what the SFA did to Rangers v2?

Exactly. But the frustration is real in their minds. They talk about wanting Wenger gone, their various failings etc. It’s obviously completely blinkered considering their actual status.

Talk to Arsenal fans down this way and you’d be forgiven for thinking their lot was pretty miserable too. I think I actually identify with Arsenal more than any other ‘big’ London club — they don’t have some oligarch or Saudi prince bankrolling them, and they routinely shoot themselves in the...

…meanwhile, my employer is looking to move from Bloomsbury to The City and I’m depressed as hell about it. The City is such a gloomy, cultural desert of a place to work. Even Kings Cross is better these days (there’s a lovely canal-side area with astroturf in front of the new St Martins College...

I’d love to see some form of the 50+1 rule in English football; even if it wasn’t widespread, having this model at a new CCFC club would ensure that at least if the club was badly run, it’d be up to the club’s members to sort it out.

I’m sorry if that came across as patronising, but you do sound very angry a lot of the time, Nick. Maybe it’s nothing to do with CCFC, but it’s hard not to see that as a factor in it. But in any case, I wasn’t specifically talking about you — thousands of Coventry City fans are going through the...

I think from reading these forums (which I do sporadically, as much because of what I’m about to say as anything else) I get the sense that a large portion of Coventry City fans are essentially going through the process of bereavement / grieving. I remember seeing a lot of anger (and you still...

So what happens if CCFC ceases to exist at the end of this season? Do you just accept that they’re gone forever when a new club is formed in Coventry playing in sky blue?

Yeah, who else is going to start a new club? I can’t see any for-profit entity wanting to do this, what’d be the point? At least to begin with, the club’s sole purpose for existing would be to scratch a particular itch for fans.

Not necessarily — most London financial companies are in The City, which has EC-prefixed postcodes. Then there’s everyone over in Canary Wharf, which is in E14. I wouldn’t personally put too much stock in the postcode, I don’t think it’s necessarily indicative of much.

Can’t it be both? Ex-players like Pearce making comments like this aren’t saying that there’s only one thing that matters — clearly lots of different factors matter for a football club to be healthy, but I think the takeaway I have is that without a healthy fanbase, any club is going to suffer.

They’re so much more financially stable now, and may even soon own a stadium literally on Plough Lane, back where they started out. But the important thing for me is that Wimbledon fans consider it their club — it’s not like they all became Kingstonian fans or something. AFC Wimbledon is as much...

I think there’s tons of potential for the future if we shake off SISU’s shackles, for much the same reasons you describe — the ill-will felt towards the club is considerable, and I’m sure it hurts it financially. Something I’ve felt a nagging sense of whenever I’ve attended Coventry City...

Their old address was near Marble Arch in Soho, the new one is Knightsbridge (although being directly on Kensington High Street does indeed mean it’s above shops). Arguably they’re comparable, high-end central London locations — if they were really properly downsizing I would expect them to move...

I’d like to know why this is the case? I understand that the club’s debts are considerable, but assuming the club were to be declared bankrupt, anyone taking on the debt would have to be considered to both pass the fit and proper ownership test, and reflect the best option for compensating the...

For a while during the dark days of Sixfields I thought there was a real possibility the fans might abandon the club en masse to such a degree that a rival AFC Wimbledon-style club might make sense. Thankfully that never happened, but it made me realise: the thing that really matters to me is...

So, is this plan B? Hoof it over the top to a big centre-forward?

Ramage's neck veins standing out as he screamed at the rest of the team after we went 2-0 down at Southend have etched into my brain. He was utterly useless. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

E-sports is big business apparently, but I think for people of a Certain Generation it will always look completely inscrutable. Personally, I never understood why you'd rather watch a game than play it yourself (because unlike, say, pro sports, you're at least theoretically able to play well...