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City of Coventry Football Club.

I have the ccfc.nu domain name (have done for years, it's largely been unused in that time). If people want to start collecting their demands or manifesto or whatever you want to call it, I'm happy to put something together and host it on there.

If the choices for ACL are: have no regular tenant (whether SISU build a new stadium or stay permanently outside of the city, either will result in this) or have a tenant that's lower down the pyramid than they'd like, but that has potential to rise rapidly with a (relatively) large fanbase. I'd...

THIS, bigtime. SISU would absolutely shit a brick if they realised they would no longer have any support or the possibility of acquiring the Ricoh Arena at knock-down price (which I have to assume has always been their gameplan). I mean, really what point would there be in it any more? Pissing...

I'll chip in! But seriously, if ACL have offered the club the stadium's use rent-free, what better opportunity for a newly-formed club to take up that offer, play in the city and work their way up. The Alan Edward Higgs Trust is far more likely to want to sell their stake to a club which has a...

Yeah, but I might need a go on the stairmaster first.

Came here to propose exactly this. Glad to see it's already being considered. My view is that the club I supported as a kid is dead, much in the same way that Wimbledon FC died when it moved to Milton Keynes. What matters is that it's a Coventry-based club playing in Sky Blue. I'm sure ACL...

Heh, the wasteland site with the VW campervan parked in front of it is where my old lift to Highfield Road used to park on matchdays once it got turned into a mini carpark. That's one end of Far Gosford Street, right? It's getting on for 20 years since I was last there…

I'm trying to get hold of some decent quality photos from the ‘87 FA Cup final, and since Google isn't helping I figured there might be some here who might be able to help out. I'm specifically looking to find any decent photos showing the players from behind (so you can see the numbers on the...

The Football League share a considerable part of the blame here. They gave a green light to the new owner, when clearly they shouldn't have.

I just found a very interesting article which explains what Rangers are accused of doing. It appears they have decided to no longer fight the accusation off and so will be liable to pay a lot of taxes plus a massive fine. What I find really interesting is this suggestion that the practice of...

Nimely was extremely unlucky not to get on the scoresheet. Another day that could easily have been 2-2. That said, Platt was utterly useless. He hadn't got any idea what to do if the ball was at his feet.

Juventus paid £10.5m for him and sold him for £11m to Arsenal 8 months later. This was between January and August 1999, so you could theoretically say that we might have wanted to buy him instead of Robbie Keane (who we bought a few weeks later), but £11m was surely not possible for CCFC. He...

This sounds like BS. This would have been in 1994 whilst he was playing for the Monaco first-team under Arsene Wenger, and Phil Neal was CCFC manager. I find this completely implausible given how few overseas players we had back then.

The continuing implosion of CCFC (the business) is beginning to feel like the final few steps on the road to momentous events at the club. It seems highly plausible that administration, and with it relegation to League One, are only just around the corner. To this I say: at last! I've not...

It's a shame that so many people can't see things from both perspectives. As much as I'm not pleased with the way things are right now you have to acknowledge that the ultimate outcome of deadline day was that we sold a player who was injured (and although I'm probably in the minority here, that...

He's a broadcaster, used to be on CWR and (back in the day) Mercia Sound. Pretty sure he's a City fan. I'm surprised a CCFC fan wouldn't have heard of him, but then I don't live locally any more so I'm not sure just what he's involved with in the area.

You don't know who Stuart Linnell is?!

So we're hoping to sign Cody McDonald for £400,000 (fingers crossed on that one) and meanwhile Leicester City have had a bid of £6.5m for Rangers’ Nikica Jelavic rejected. Six point five million. How are we in the same division as a team that can afford that much? How can Leicester afford...

Correct me if I'm wrong (I've not watched our performances yet this season) but have we not played reasonably well in the games so far (except in the league cup match) with the exception of up front? Would it not be true that without impending financial crisis we'd be a lot more optimistic? If...