The way I look at the current Coventry City situation is:
· All pots in the kitchen are black
· Attribution of blame rarely yields positive outcomes
· Anger is the worst of motivators
· All actors in the saga have a story to tell and that is their truth
In addition, in my view:
· SISU have enormous wealth behind them and ‘not a penny more’ will cut absolutely no ice.
· There is a very wide impasse between a Labour held council and a hedge fund who must represent the devil incarnate.
· The ACL board are seemingly out of their depth.
· Although there are notable exceptions, football seems to attract very mercenary individuals and CCFC is no exception. CCFC’s history shows how it invariably jumps out of the frying pan and into the fire.
In this sorry situation, a line has to be drawn in the sand by all of us somewhere and I have drawn mine. I want CCFC in Coventry but I have no emotional attachment to the Ricoh, particularly as currently run.
I do believe that Sixfields is temporary and that it does not serve SISU’s long term purpose.
I do not doubt that they will be back in or around Coventry within the time period they state unless some other grotesquely rich, and eventually equally unpalatable group, make them an offer they can’t refuse.
However, if I were to single out any point of focus for pressure, it would be those people who have Power rather than Money as their prime motivator.
Therefore, I believe the best potential for momentum can be found by pressurising the politicians.
I’m on holiday in Majorca at the moment but am overjoyed at what Steven Pressley is doing with the team. My two young lads and I are desperately missing the action and look forward to seeing our team, home and away, whenever we can. In the meantime, I am reminded by the first verse of the Serenity Prayer:
Grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
--Reinhold Niebuhr