After the success (off the field) of last season’s Community Day, which attracted a crowd of over 28,000 to the League Two fixture between Coventry City and Accrington Stanley, the Sky Blues will be repeating the event for the game against Gillingham on Saturday 2 February 2019.
It means thousands of tickets will be distributed to local schools and all other tickets, in all areas of the Ricoh Arena, will cost just £5.
Things have certainly improved for City supporters over the past couple of years from the nadir of relegation in 2016.
Mark Robins has presided over two Wembley victories and a promotion and, slowly, attendances at the ground are creeping back up.
Owners SISU remain hugely unpopular for presiding over the decline and, more importantly, the move out of the city to Northampton in 2013.
The spectre of that happening again remains as the current agreement to play at the Ricoh lasts only until the end of the current season and talks with owners Wasps are on hold due to the ongoing legal action being taken by the football club owners.
But those in charge of the day-to-day running of the club are always keen to stress that those matters are not instigated or affected by them and there is no doubt that communication with supporters has improved drastically over the past 18 months.
Not far away and a club that has close ties with Coventry City have come through a difficult period of their own in recent months, Nuneaton Borough facing the very real threat of going out of existence before a recent takeover.
Their National League North fixture against Guiseley on Saturday 22 December has reduced prices of £10 Adults and £1 for Under 16's.
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