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A MESSAGE TO YOU, SISU

STEVE COYNE pleads the case for Coventry City to be allowed to return home to the Ricoh Arena

Football club owners, as we know, have a poor reputation. But if you think the owners of your club are bad then spare a thought for the long-suffering supporters of League One Coventry City. In July 2013 the owners, a Mayfair based hedge-fund called SISU, led by a Finnish-American, Joy Seppala, announced they were to relocate to Sixfields, the 7,000 capacity ground of League Two Northampton Town. Coventry was to disappear from the football map leaving behind an empty 31,000 seat state-of-the-...

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