From the full article: "The football club says it received no non-matchday revenues, and a paltry £73,000 in matchday revenues last season from car parking and food and drink sales around the stadium concourse, with Wasps pocketing around 90 percent of those revenues even for Sky Blues’ matches."
Wasps' safety officer was considering having supporters barred from the stadium for the home game against Gillingham in order to try and prevent any pitch invasions.
Wasps' safety officer was considering having supporters barred from the stadium for the home game against Gillingham in order to try and prevent any pitch invasions.
Because I'm sure that Coventry fans invade the pitch at every home game!
The fact that Wasps think fans might invade vs Gillingham shows just how worryingly out of touch and aloof they are with the club they are supposed to be accommodating.
The pests really don't seem to give a toss if they cause Coventry to go out of business. I have no ties to or affection for City, but this whole situation just makes me so angry and reminds me of all the times the pests happily walked all over us. I'm so glad we finally got rid of them, but our gain is sadly just another club's huge loss.
The minute you no longer own your own ground, you are in serious, serious trouble. Why do clubs not learn this? Those that were in favour of the proposed move to the Sharkdome need only look at the situation in the West Midlands to see where that would most likely have got us.
It's worth repeating - THANK GODS for the WW Trust and for the women and men who stepped in and saved our club. I'm not sure we'll every truly know just how close we were to going to the wall.
History has shown that selling the ground (in Coventry's case, their share of the ground) never ends well. I can't remember if Cov's share in the arena was sold during or prior to SISU's involvement (a cursory look on google didn't yield any answers).
And I can only second what you said about the work carried out by WWST at the time, from what I understand we were extremely close to going out of business before their purchase of the club from Steve Hayes went through.
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Remember when Kraftwerk got to the EMI final? Those were the days.
Wasp is too kind a description of these parasites they're more like intestinal worms that slowly kill their host
From the full article: "The football club says it received no non-matchday revenues, and a paltry £73,000 in matchday revenues last season from car parking and food and drink sales around the stadium concourse, with Wasps pocketing around 90 percent of those revenues even for Sky Blues’ matches."
There but for the grace of God ...
Yes....very much like the 'wasps' depicted in the Sky Atlantic series 'Fortitude'!
Amazed the 'let it go' brigade haven't pitched up yet. Chilling to think what might have been in the SharkDome.
That stadium would have been the single worst thing to ever happen to this football club.
Surprised they haven't submitted a claim against us for letting Coventry win!
This sort of thing should be required reading for the few remaining Hayes apologists.
Spot on Floyd
Sticking to read what the parasites are up to..We all could see how poor that pitch was prior to the match..
“It would appear to be one example of how Wasps are financially distressing the football club.”
It's gutting for Coventry, though I'm also relieved that this isn't Wycombe Wanderers at the stadium in Booker proposed by Steve Hayes.
Oh, and this:
Wasps' safety officer was considering having supporters barred from the stadium for the home game against Gillingham in order to try and prevent any pitch invasions.
They are ruining Coventrys playing surface and making them pay for it I'm angry and have no links to the sky blues we really dodged a bullet
Because I'm sure that Coventry fans invade the pitch at every home game!
Rugby folk assume that Football fans always invade the pitch and have a huge punch up.
The fact that Wasps think fans might invade vs Gillingham shows just how worryingly out of touch and aloof they are with the club they are supposed to be accommodating.
The pests really don't seem to give a toss if they cause Coventry to go out of business. I have no ties to or affection for City, but this whole situation just makes me so angry and reminds me of all the times the pests happily walked all over us. I'm so glad we finally got rid of them, but our gain is sadly just another club's huge loss.
The minute you no longer own your own ground, you are in serious, serious trouble. Why do clubs not learn this? Those that were in favour of the proposed move to the Sharkdome need only look at the situation in the West Midlands to see where that would most likely have got us.
It's worth repeating - THANK GODS for the WW Trust and for the women and men who stepped in and saved our club. I'm not sure we'll every truly know just how close we were to going to the wall.
@Jonny_King - Good post.
History has shown that selling the ground (in Coventry's case, their share of the ground) never ends well. I can't remember if Cov's share in the arena was sold during or prior to SISU's involvement (a cursory look on google didn't yield any answers).
And I can only second what you said about the work carried out by WWST at the time, from what I understand we were extremely close to going out of business before their purchase of the club from Steve Hayes went through.
I heard some Wycombe fans hid in the stadium after the Trophy game and dug up the pitch with spoons...I think it was in the local paper.