What happens to our identity as city fans if we relocate? (1 Viewer)

[Skybluesquirrel]

A football club needs a place to call home. How does a stadium contribute to a clubs identity? Original research conducted in February on City supporters found evidence that suggests that the club's stadium plays a significant part in the making and shaping of the clubs identity. Can, or will, city supporters ever call Sixfields 'home' should the relocation go ahead.

A guest writer contributes to my blog. Not my ramblings this time, but from the lad that did the research. Well worth a read!

http://aprisonofmeasuredtime.wordpr...tion-of-home-in-shaping-identity-in-football/

 

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[Otis]

As has been mentioned before, we will lose so much. Most importantly the next generation of Coventry City fans.

Where are the school tickets going to be? Where are the parents taking their kids up to be the newly found Sky Blue fans?

I have already said, along with many others, it really doesn't feel like we are even playing this season. If we feel like this now what's are we going to feel like after 3, 4 or 5 years of the the club being away?

Thousands of fans could be lost forever.

 

[Delboycov]

Great blog from your guest writer squirrel which really emphasises the point that we will lose a very large part of our identity...if not all of it. It also raises some intetesting points that haven't really been considered in these discussions such as that we will effectively be losing home advantage.

 

[newcastlefan1984]

I am a Newcastle fan and I was saddened by how a club who won the FA Cup in 1987 and once had a team with great players like Dublin, Aloisi, Robbie Keane and Huckerby as well as Ogrizovic face the real possibility of being relocated. No fans should experience what you are at the moment and I sympathise with you. I just hope that you can remain in Coventry and do not have to go all the way to Northampton just for a home game.

 

[italiahorse]

I can't do it.
Ricoh or nothing for my aspirations.