Future Looking Bleak For Sky Blues

When will it end? Being a Coventry City fan for close to 15 years since the age of 6, it's been pretty depressing stuff. Two relegations and countless mid-table finishes is what us fans have had to endure on the pitch. But off the pitch, it gets even worse.

After narrowly avoiding administration by a matter of minutes in 2007, it looked like things were looking up for the Sky Blues. Sisu took the club over and looked to improve things both on and off the pitch. They were hoping to own the stadium which the club rent, The Ricoh Arena, within a few years.

But failure to do so has caused numerous problems for the club with failure to pay the rent which is reported to be as much as £1.2 million per year. Without receiving revenue from the stadium, the club really is falling fast. The owners Sisu, have said to have pumped close to £50 million into the club. It's hard to see where any of that money has gone as we are in a much worse position that when they took over the club.

And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the club are on the verge of 10 point deduction after a non-operating subsidiary of the club went into administration. This is real shame as the club were starting to perform on the pitch in the recent months. Currently 10th in League 1 and just a few points from the play-offs, this deduction kills off any chances of reaching them and condems us to yet another below mid-table finish.

Back to the off the pitch matters and no-one really knows the full story but it looks like we will be deducted 10 points this season and the actual football club will enter administration before the start of next season and be deducted a further 15 points. Just even more depressing news for us fans. At least it can't get much worse than this though. Oh wait, it can. It was also revealed that the club look set to be leaving The Ricoh Arena after long standing rent issues and are looking for a new place to play the remaining home fixtures. It really is a sorry state of affairs for the club and the long suffering fans. We are not sure when this pain will end but before you know it, we could be playing League 2 football with the likes of Fleetwood Town and AFC Wimbledon. Oh joy. The future for Coventry City looks very bleak indeed.