Who would have thought it? A club the size of Coventry's being made to groundshare with lowly Northampton Town. The whole situation with Coventry City has become a complete joke and they now find themselves without a permanent stadium and having to share a 7,500 capacity Sixfields over 40 miles away from the City. Add on top of that the club still being in administration and hit with a transfer embargo with owners who are utterly useless, then it is extremely difficult to see a way out.
The fact that the owners SISU were unwilling to do any sort of sensible deal to play in the Ricoh, how some of the SISU board members managed to buy the other part of the club through acceptance from the administrator and how the Football League could ratify the ground share really opens up a numerous amount of questions. Some of these questions include how on earth have SISU managed to get away with all this. Usually when a club gets bought after going into administration, it means new owners, the club coming out of administration and a fresh start. But in this case, the club got completely bought by the existing owners, are still in administration and the gloom continues. It is a mystery to how they have been able to do this without the Football League or the administrator getting involved.
It seems like SISU are a cancer trying to kill Coventy City Football Club and won't stop until they do. It is clear they don't care about the club or football as they would have left by now if they did. They are just in it for the money side of things in terms of not being willing to leave until they have made some sort of profit and gain some sort of percentage in the Ricoh, much like a hedge fund.
With this ground share, it is hard to see too many Coventry fans turning up and who can blame them. 40 odd miles is a long way to travel just to watch your home side play and it turns out most of the matches will be played on a Friday night due to fixture clashes with Northampton. They will do well to get 1,000 in all honesty. A truly ridiculous state of affairs with a perfectly good 32,500 capacity stadium now just sitting there in Coventry. This is well and truly a new low for Coventy City and if things carry on the way they are, it is hard to see a prolonged future for the club.
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