Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Football for a Fiver at the Ricoh Arena

Ricoh Arena, Coventry


This picture was taken ahead of a long-overdue trip to the Ricoh Arena to watch my team Coventry City in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy on Tuesday night.
Long overdue of course as the Sky Blues spent over a season away from the stadium, groundsharing at Northampton's Sixfields ground, before making a surprise return at the start of September with emotional scenes at the 1-0 win against Gillingham which was watched by over 27,000 fans.

Just over a month later and the future of the football club is shrouded in uncertainty once again. On the eve of this game against Exeter City a deal had been agreed which would see Coventry City Council sell their stake in the Ricoh Arena to London Wasps RFC.
Anyway, back to the football and a flat admission fee of £5 attracted 7,273 to the game which was the biggest JPT crowd of the night and not far short of the attendance at the league game against Crawley Town a few days earlier.

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