No, no, no!Originally Posted by lilactime
If you're talking about the fans, then I guess you can have the benefit of the doubt. They've been well and truly shafted in all this, caught in the middle of a battle between warring factions.
However, the club doesn't deserve it. For all that has gone on there (and you can find plenty if you research it), they should NOT be in the football league right now. The authorities have bottled it at every opportunity and, when presented with clear evidence of wrongdoing, which should have resulted in sanctions, pretty much stated that their main aim was to keep Coventry City going at all costs. Funny how they didn't take this view with Chester, Aldershot, Scarborough etc.
And one more myth I'm getting fed up with - once again, the commentators last night kept going on about how it was a miracle what Coventry had achieved this season with a team that's all youngsters and a budget of nearly zero. Wrong! In Murphy, Moussa, Fleck and Clarke, they have 4 established players in the spine of the team who, between then, will be earning more than the full 11 of most teams in this league. On crowds of 2,000 or less, tell me how that works with Financial Fair Play?!?!
(by the way, as balance, I think Pressley is doing a cracking job there in difficult circumstances, has got them playing some lovely football and is definitely a manager for bigger and better places at some point)
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