wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong.
AFC Coventry playing in Sky Blue, with equal fans input and opportunities please.
I will NOT be supporting Coventry United
CCFC all day. This Cov Utd or Cov Phoenix is not the way forward.
If that is the case and you are not "supporting" the new team and simply just watching another team for 3/4 years, what is the point in investing your money into a flash in the pan club which will die as quick as it was made in 3 years time???
Put money into the Sphinx and help them!! They haven't asked for this situation with CCFC whereas the founders of Coventry United are in my own opinion trying to exploit the situation to make a bit of money!!!!
If Coventry didn't exist, I wouldn't truly support anybody to be honest. I couldn't just go and support a random team. I could watch them, but it wouldn't be the same.
I don't see why any replacement support needs to go to a new club. Sphinx appear to be well-run, are a long-established club and represent the city, and are just a football club rather than a reactionary measure.
Also add to the fact i've played for and against the Sphinx many times. I guess a few CCFC fans could say this too! Adds a bit of romance! Let them move into the Ricoh, i would go for sure
Just think what an extra 200 - 300 fans week in week out would do for that club!
Instead people want to give these muppets at Coventry United some money to line their pockets with!! They are no better than the people that put us in this situation in my own personal opinion!!
How do you know without knowing them?
I am put off by the Sphinx, mainly because of when I was younger and some of the players used to stroll round like they were Jonny Concrete Premier League players and were absolute pricks...
Cov Phoenix are a womens Ice Hockey Team www.phoenix-hockey.co.uk/
Phoenix is horribly Americanised though.
City, United, Athletic, the nice traditional suffixes.
Or follow the examples of Crewe and Northwich and have Coventry Elizabeth?
Surely you'd just call a new club AFC Coventry City? Why would you lose the 'City' when there is no need to?
FA wouldn't sanction it. The AFC bit is a prefix to denote its a football club and is superfluous like the FC currently at the end of our name. AFC Coventry City and Coventry City FC would both just essentially be Coventry City in the eyes of the FA.
It's not a discretionary thing is it? Surely the issue is about trademarks - and Coventry City Football Club is trademarked - but as far as I know 'Coventry City' isn't. As long as you do not contravene trademarks you can call yourselves what you want I would have thought - and the name of the club does not have to match the name of the registered company (as we know). If Wimbledon FC can become AFC Wimbledon, I see no reason why CCFC cannot become AFCCC. Perhaps my understanding is wrong though. I'm pretty sure ashyjan knows the specifics of this.
Maybe you are talking about if CCFC no longer exist. I've not read the whole thread. If so, you are right and we could call ourselves Coventry City.
Yeah sorry, I was referring to a scenario where CCFC withers away or is liquidated. Obviously, if the two clubs co-existed then I take your point completely.
I know the trust own the rights to the name in the event of liquidation.
Fry I think your completely right there mate. As for "Coventry united" I'm gonna give it a miss, 3 things put me off, there name, the fact red is there main colour and the fact that someone mentioned the guy who set them up is a plastic man united fan.
Red and green are the city colours so don't object to that-what I do object to is these people acting like the current CCFC has ceased to exist and is no longer worth fighting for. You won't be getting my support just yet.
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