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Coventry to play rent free 11:01 - Jun 11 with 5895 viewsKevinPR

Coventry are given the opportunity to play at the Ricoh Arena rent free next season by management company Arena Coventry Limited.

The Sky Blues and ACL, who run the stadium on behalf of joint owners the Alan Edward Higgs Charity and Coventry City Council, have been involved in a lengthy and bitter rent row which has been ongoing for around 16 months.

An ACL statement reads: "To enable the football club to fulfil its commitments under Football League regulations, and to provide stability whilst Coventry City Football Club Limited, which owns the League Share, remains in administration, ACL has agreed to allow the club to play its homes games free of any rental fee, therefore removing any need for the supporters to travel outside the city to watch home games.


*stands back and waits for Norf's reaction*
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Coventry to play rent free on 11:03 - Jun 11 with 5874 viewsNorthernr

They've done well. Successfully weaseling out of an agreement they signed of their own free will that looked like a ludicrous business plan to begin with. I wonder if my bank will waive the £500 I've just put on my credit card for another season ticket using the same logic?
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Coventry to play rent free on 11:07 - Jun 11 with 5863 viewsJuzzie


Fantastic. I'm going to stop paying my mortgage and use this as precedent.



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Coventry to play rent free on 11:09 - Jun 11 with 5857 viewsnewgolddream

Good luck to them.
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Coventry to play rent free on 11:16 - Jun 11 with 5836 viewsJuzzie

Coventry to play rent free on 11:09 - Jun 11 by newgolddream

Good luck to them.


Why? Everyone else has to pay rent/mortgage/buliding costs etc.

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Coventry to play rent free on 11:19 - Jun 11 with 5825 viewsToast_R

They have done well played their bluff well. What would the owners do with a horrible stadium that nothings goes on in?

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Coventry to play rent free on 11:46 - Jun 11 with 5773 viewsstan4england

Coventry to play rent free on 11:16 - Jun 11 by Juzzie

Why? Everyone else has to pay rent/mortgage/buliding costs etc.



If the owners have any sense, there will be clauses (percentage of profits, what happens when they come out of administration, branding rights etc.).
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Coventry to play rent free on 11:53 - Jun 11 with 5751 viewsexiled_dictator

Coventry to play rent free on 11:19 - Jun 11 by Toast_R

They have done well played their bluff well. What would the owners do with a horrible stadium that nothings goes on in?






Any of the above ......

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Coventry to play rent free on 12:16 - Jun 11 with 5700 viewsDaBurgh

Coventry to play rent free on 11:53 - Jun 11 by exiled_dictator




Any of the above ......


2:25 my hometown stadium, spent many a summer afternoon watching baseball there, bit misty eyed at that. Went to the opening game at the start of the 1971 season, great times.
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Coventry to play rent free on 18:46 - Jun 11 with 5539 viewshoopstilidie

So how does this fit into the fair play rules?

Ringo Starr ate my hamper.
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Coventry to play rent free on 19:17 - Jun 11 with 5497 viewscheeseydane

Coventry to play rent free on 18:46 - Jun 11 by hoopstilidie

So how does this fit into the fair play rules?


That is a very good question.

Technology advances, unfortunately humans do not.

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Coventry to play rent free on 19:22 - Jun 11 with 5489 viewsTacticalR

Only mugs pay rent...

Swansea City FC urged to pay more Liberty Stadium rent
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-14392589

Air hostess clique

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Coventry to play rent free on 22:16 - Jun 11 with 5390 viewsnewgolddream

Coventry to play rent free on 11:19 - Jun 11 by Toast_R

They have done well played their bluff well. What would the owners do with a horrible stadium that nothings goes on in?



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Coventry to play rent free on 23:37 - Jun 11 with 5346 viewsqprmick

Any asbestos in that little lot?

Qprmick

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Coventry to play rent free on 07:49 - Jun 12 with 5288 viewsCanadaRanger

Will the stadium owners keep the profits from beer sales etc?

If so, they are still making money.
If not, they are losing money as a stadium, unused, is a depreciating asset with maintenance costs.

Swansea's old stadium was unused for a while and ended up looking like a tip... before they tore it down.
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Coventry to play rent free on 18:52 - Jun 12 with 5166 viewsderbyhoop

Coventry to play rent free on 11:03 - Jun 11 by Northernr

They've done well. Successfully weaseling out of an agreement they signed of their own free will that looked like a ludicrous business plan to begin with. I wonder if my bank will waive the £500 I've just put on my credit card for another season ticket using the same logic?


I remember hearing
"if you owe the bank 1,000,they've got you by the short and curlies. If you owe them 10,000,000 you've got them by the short and curlies.

Clearly, Clive, you didn't borrow enough.

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Coventry to play rent free on 20:40 - Jun 12 with 5136 viewsTacticalR

Coventry to play rent free on 07:49 - Jun 12 by CanadaRanger

Will the stadium owners keep the profits from beer sales etc?

If so, they are still making money.
If not, they are losing money as a stadium, unused, is a depreciating asset with maintenance costs.

Swansea's old stadium was unused for a while and ended up looking like a tip... before they tore it down.


Swansea's old stadium always looked like a tip, even when they were playing in it. I can't think of a ground with a more bizarre collection of mismatched stands.

Air hostess clique

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Coventry to play rent free on 21:04 - Jun 12 with 5119 viewsCamberleyR

Coventry to play rent free on 20:40 - Jun 12 by TacticalR

Swansea's old stadium always looked like a tip, even when they were playing in it. I can't think of a ground with a more bizarre collection of mismatched stands.


The Manor Ground, Oxford.

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Coventry to play rent free on 21:42 - Jun 12 with 5098 viewsMrSheen

Coventry to play rent free on 21:04 - Jun 12 by CamberleyR

The Manor Ground, Oxford.


The Manor Ground had about 8 or 9 separate structures, it was like a junkyard.

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Coventry to play rent free on 22:32 - Jun 12 with 5069 viewsenfieldargh

Coventry to play rent free on 21:42 - Jun 12 by MrSheen

The Manor Ground had about 8 or 9 separate structures, it was like a junkyard.



and the loveliest bogs under the away terrace.

You needed a pair of flippers to wade through the ankle deep sludge.

Always reminded me of the old Adie loos

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Coventry to play rent free on 17:36 - Jun 17 with 4953 viewsNorthernr

Latest on the Coventry situation is the administrator has accepted an offer from an interested party. The party is the previous owners Sisu who put it into administration in the first place - or at least an arm of Sisu that isn't in admin. Sisu apparently keen for the club to seperate totally from the Ricoh and probably play at Walsall next season.

Did somebody say fit and proper person test?
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Coventry to play rent free on 17:56 - Jun 17 with 4932 viewsJuzzie

Coventry to play rent free on 17:36 - Jun 17 by Northernr

Latest on the Coventry situation is the administrator has accepted an offer from an interested party. The party is the previous owners Sisu who put it into administration in the first place - or at least an arm of Sisu that isn't in admin. Sisu apparently keen for the club to seperate totally from the Ricoh and probably play at Walsall next season.

Did somebody say fit and proper person test?


Walsall? That'd be like asking us to play at Reading.

Jeez.

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Coventry to play rent free on 02:37 - Jun 18 with 4901 viewstimcocking

I reckon it's nice to see the local council or whoever it is in places like Swansea or Coventry trying to help their teams out as much as possible, if that's what this is about.

I think the fair play rule is incredibly unfair, and as with nearly everything bad in football, it affects QPR more than virtually any other side. Facking QPR factor again.
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