Bill Glazier
Active Member
Interesting and thoughtful stuff. I'm one of the stay-aways too - partly because I live some way off, partly because my son has moved away and I don't want to go alone, but mostly because I too have fallen out of love with football a bit, and with sisu's ccfc in particular.
I've always thought that uniting the ground with the club was the answer to getting ccfc on a firmer financial footing, but it's clear that sisu are entirely parasitic and coldly ruthless, and will let the club die now they've got what they've always wanted, the half share in the arena and its development potential. Well, let them have the arena - the whole ugly damned thing for all I care. I don't know what they'll do with it when there's no longer a football team - probably pull it down and build a housing estate - whatever'll make most money.
Because I've a feeling liquidation might be the best thing to happen. A new club can emerge, the Sphinx for all I know, or some rump of the old club, that the people of Coventry - the 9th biggest city in England remember - can own themselves and feel genuine pride in. Maybe it could stadium share with the rugby club or, another ground in the city somewhere could be bought and expanded as the team grows.
I will feel a particular sadness as my family have supported ccfc literally back to the Singer days, when my great-grandfather played in their first ever team but, unless it can be owned locally, or at least by people who care about the team, why should we care?.
I'll be there on Wednesday. It'll be my first, maybe only, game this season and I'll enjoy not giving sisu a penny. We'll be soundly thrashed by the Arsenal third team but I won't care because it'll be a great big party with the only people who have ever really cared about ccfc - the fans. It could well be the last big game the club ever plays, so let's enjoy it.
I've always thought that uniting the ground with the club was the answer to getting ccfc on a firmer financial footing, but it's clear that sisu are entirely parasitic and coldly ruthless, and will let the club die now they've got what they've always wanted, the half share in the arena and its development potential. Well, let them have the arena - the whole ugly damned thing for all I care. I don't know what they'll do with it when there's no longer a football team - probably pull it down and build a housing estate - whatever'll make most money.
Because I've a feeling liquidation might be the best thing to happen. A new club can emerge, the Sphinx for all I know, or some rump of the old club, that the people of Coventry - the 9th biggest city in England remember - can own themselves and feel genuine pride in. Maybe it could stadium share with the rugby club or, another ground in the city somewhere could be bought and expanded as the team grows.
I will feel a particular sadness as my family have supported ccfc literally back to the Singer days, when my great-grandfather played in their first ever team but, unless it can be owned locally, or at least by people who care about the team, why should we care?.
I'll be there on Wednesday. It'll be my first, maybe only, game this season and I'll enjoy not giving sisu a penny. We'll be soundly thrashed by the Arsenal third team but I won't care because it'll be a great big party with the only people who have ever really cared about ccfc - the fans. It could well be the last big game the club ever plays, so let's enjoy it.