Well Worth A Read - A Letter To Private Eye

The following letter to magazine Private Eye penned by a Coventry City supporter has been spotted on social media and is well worth a read.

Dear Sir

In Eye 1364, your Rotten Boroughs section gleefully reported the alleged "mishandling" by Coventry City Council of the Ricoh Arena saga. "More embarrassing revelations are expected when SISU goes back to the High Court for a judicial review of the Council's secret decision to loan ACL £14.4m" you wrote, no doubt rubbing your hands at the prospect of a Labour council being humiliated in court.

Unfortunately for you, but fortunately for fans of Coventry City FC and indeed the wider English football community, the only ones embarrassed by the judicial review, the result of which was made public on 30th June, were our owners SISU. Whilst the judge found that the Council had acted entirely legally and "well within the ambit extended to public authorities", and that any accusations of secrecy were "unfounded", he accused SISU of conducting a rent strike in order to "distress ACL’s financial position, with a view to driving down the value of ACL and thus the price of a share in it, which they coveted.” No surprise to those of us who have followed the sorry tale from day one, but obviously news to Private Eye and its sources.