Coventry City – The fight behind the Sky Blues’ return from exile
Pitch Publishing, £12.99
Reviewed by Neville Hadsley
From WSC 361, March 2017
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Ed Wilson explains Coventry City fans’ growing discontent with Sisu Capital’s ownership of the Sky Blues
Bournemouth chairman Eddie Mitchell has already won this season’s award for elevating supporter-owner friction to the level of hilarious and harrowing performance art. But on the same day that he took to the Dean Court pitch to confront unhappy supporters, the relationship between Coventry City fans and the club’s owners, Sisu Capital, was also bottoming out. City’s 2-0 home win over Derby took place against a backdrop of antagonism towards the hedge fund, with the confiscation of a banner bearing an anti-Sisu message leading to a scuffle between supporters and stewards.