If Sunderland fans are getting a refund, then the 223 Coventry City fans at Boundary Park are as equally worthy of some form of compensation after suffering a poor City team losing 4-1 at Oldham Athletic.
On a night where parts of Britain were hit by the remants of a gale, it was the hardcore City support which made it to Boundary Park for the Sky Blues League One game against Oldham Athletic.
Steven Pressley changed the team yet again with James Maddison starting and the City team City in white shirts and blue shorts were well received by the City support which included supporters from as far away as Denmark and Kent, as they took to the field.
However, early on, the City team, the majority of which had been brought in by Pressley were chasing the ball and In the eighth minute, Oldham had their first shot when Forte found former Sky Blue Danny Philliskirk who hit a shot not very well but it squirmed past Ryan Allsop and went into the net.
It was another preventable goal and a goal which had the City support berating the keeper, who many hope will be seeing the start of 2015 back at Bournemouth.
Tim Dieng fired wide in the 20th minute but eight minutes, a gift from the City midfield and then Jordan Willis let Jon Forte race through and slip the ball past Allsop.
City had a 34th minute free kick and up stepped James Maddison who curled the free kick into the net. On a bitterly cold night, the goal was well celebrated by the City support who received one of the best put downs of the season so far when the Oldham fans admitted that they knew that their town was a bit of a dump or words to that effect.
Jones sent a forty yard lob onto the bar but four minutes before the break and Forte raced through and scored Oldham's third with consummate ease.
Steven Pressley, in a black coat, did not make any changes to a City side which nearly scored a second goal three minutes in when Shaun Miller struck Rachubka's left hand post.
But that was as good as it got for City and their supporters who to their credit kept singing. As the City support questioned the amount of time it was taking Oldham to build a stand, The Latics had a 55th minute chance and won two corners on the hour mark.
In the 63rd minute, Pressley replaced Andy Webster and Shaun Miller with Jackson and Tudgay and a switch to 4-4-2.
Allsop made a good save to push away a free kick for a corner before Conor Thomas replaced Jim O'Brien for the last seventeen minutes. O'Brien, who had been City's only hope for much of the game was furious at being replaced and he had good reason as an Ibehre header in the 78th minute sent City to a 4-1 defeat and had the supporters leaving Boundary Park declaring that something has to change.