Coventry City supporters who have Private Seat Licences are demanding their money back if the Sky Blues are moved out of the Ricoh Arena by Tim Fisher and his cohorts.
Anywhere between 575 and one thousand PSL's, depending on who you listen to, were sold to City supporters by then CEO Paul Fletcher who was subsequently dismissed by then Chairman Geoffrey Robinson MP due to City not selling the three thousand plus he promised.
Now, with City seemingly set to be dragged kicking and screaming to another venue for home matches, the PSL's are seemingly worthless.
Diamond Club Committee Member and Supporters Consultation Group member Ray Stephens, who was one of those who bought a PSL told the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner:
“If CCFC’s home games will be played outside of the city by operating a groundshare with Walsall, Birmingham, Nuneaton, Northampton or wherever the hell else, I am pursuing my legal rights with regard to my Private Seat Licence.
“The seats cost my wife and I £275 each so I have written straight to the administrator asking for my money back. And if nothing happens I will consider taking legal action and take the club to a small claims court.
“I believe there were approximately 1,000 PSL seats sold. We all purchased them in good faith with the guarantee of the Sky Blues playing at the Ricoh.
“The point is that if they are not going to play at the Ricoh they are preventing me from buying my season ticket for the Ricoh and therefore I lose my PSL seat through no fault of my own, and to me that’s almost highway robbery.
“I shall also encourage the 1000 or so other supporters who purchased PSL seats to reclaim their money. We each paid £275 for our PSL seat and since it is SISU who are effectively reneging on the ‘contract’ this could cost Sisu in excess of £250,000.
“Last year I paid cash up front when the season tickets went on sale because they were pleading poverty, so I thought I’d put my bit of cash in if it helps.
“If it comes out tomorrow that City are playing at the Ricoh next season I would be straight down there to renew my season ticket. I want to buy a season ticket but I am being prevented from doing so, and therefore I lose my £275 seat, and so does my wife, my son and grandson.
“That’s three generations of the family and I won’t be going to Walsall if that’s where they end up playing. I wouldn’t want to drive there and it will take two and a half hours to get there by train so we’d have to leave early and get home after 7pm in the evening on a matchday which is ridiculous.
“My wife has been watching the City for 52 years and I have been for 55 years, of which I’ve had a season ticket for 47, and we are having a way of life taken away from us by these idiots at Sisu.
“I am not alone in this and everyone I speak to is desperately upset about it. It’s a way of life for people of our age.
“It’s a dreadful situation and I can’t see any end to it other than the demise of Coventry City Football Club.”
More on this: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/private-seat-owners-ricoh-arena-4034790?
Source: Coventry MAD
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