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There are a couple of signposts to help navigate the barmy situation at Coventry City, to understand how a club can be about to make itself homeless again, and face a vote this Thursday to be actually expelled from the EFL, exactly 100 years since it first joined the Football League in 1919. Most important is to be clear that the owner, the Mayfair-based hedge fund Sisu, has no need to move the club from the Ricoh Arena, the home Coventry city council built for it in 2005, to groundshare with Birmingham City at St Andrew’s, Coventry Rugby Club at their Butts Park ground (capacity 4,000), or any other unsuitable couch-surf. Throughout the sorry recent saga of Sisu pursuing aggressive, losing legal actions against the council, it is clear the toxicity and insecurity surrounding the club are self-inflicted. Wasps, the Premiership rugby club that bought the Ricoh after Sisu had tried to financially ruin the ground with a rent strike and buy it on the cheap, have consistently said … [Read more...] about Toxic tactics behind Coventry’s slide from FA Cup glory to brink of oblivion

Motofest1-2 JuneWhere CoventryPrice FreeDetails coventrymotofest.com Brexit uncertainty is playing havoc with Britain’s motoring industry: production is down and jobs are at risk. So, it’s a good time to focus attention on much that’s good about the sector and the enormous contribution it makes to our economy and culture with a trip to Coventry – a city that can claim to be Britain’s answer to Detroit. As Henry Ford was setting himself up in America, so our own Midlands Motown would go on to attract iconic marques such as Jaguar, Armstrong Siddeley, Alvis, Hillman, Chrysler, Triumph, Singer, Humber, Lanchester and Rover. And, this summer more than any other, Citroën. The great French marque is celebrating 100 years since André Citroën produced the very first car bearing his name with a mass drive of 1,000 Citroëns new and old through the heart of the city. It’s just one part of the two-day four-wheeled extravaganza. Motofest is … [Read more...] about Motofest: ‘A two-day, four-wheeled car extravaganza’

FLOYD MAYWEATHER claims he is ‘coming out of retirement in 2020’ to work on a ‘spectacular event ’ with UFC boss Dana White. The announcement on social media comes in the same week the 42-year-old admitted it was time to ‘hang it up’ after insisting he was finished the the ‘very brutal sport’. #Repost via Instagram/@FloydMayweather pic.twitter.com/v5R5RFk9E4— Dana White (@danawhite) November 22, 2019 #Repost from Instagram/@FloydMayweather @danawhite and I working together again to bring the world another spectacular event in 2020.#boxing#UFC#mma#mayweatherpromotions pic.twitter.com/TVNDs1HlRe— Dana White (@danawhite) November 22, 2019 But the boxing superstar wrote on Twitter: "@danawhite and I working together again to bring the world another spectacular event in 2020." And he kept fans guessing with a series of hashtags, including: "#boxing", "UFC" and "MMA". The pair were pictured courtside together at the Staples Center … [Read more...] about Floyd Mayweather says he is ‘coming out of retirement in 2020’ to work with UFC boss Dana White in a ‘spectacular event’

Even in our ritual besmirching and humiliation of Dundee, we treated the city unequally. Other towns and cities blighted by social disadvantage found a sympathetic response and sometimes outrage when annually it was revealed how badly we permitted people to live in this affluent country. The health inequalities that have long existed in parts of Glasgow have kept the UK’s film and documentary sector afloat these last 20 years or so and rescued us journalists and commentators with a steady supply of numbers and testimonies. Glasgow is a big, brassy city and its advocates are never slow and rarely quiet about proclaiming its virtues and bewailing its problems. Not Dundee. Instead, we turned this city into a national joke. When, some years ago, statistics were released detailing the extent of underage maternity rates in Dundee they provided gags for a generation of professional comedians and amateur clowns who had never visited this city. The statistics that described … [Read more...] about Thanks to the V&A, Dundee will no longer be the butt of a nation’s jokes

She's an in demand model and TV personality. But Heidi Klum still makes time to enjoy the simple things in life like eating out with her new husband Tom Kaulitz. The blonde beauty, 46, was snapped Thursday leaving a Los Angeles eatery with the Tokio Hotel musician and one of their dogs. Model style: Heidi Klum looked fabulous as she stepped out in LA on Thursday wearing a white sweater with black stripes on the sleeves and pale blue skinny jeans Klum looked lovely in a casual ensemble of white sweater with black stripes on the sleeves and pale blue skinny jeans. She added white ankle boots and a monochrome patterned shoulder purse. Her long hair was loose and she sported a pair of gold-framed sunglasses.  RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Cindy Crawford, 53, is every inch the supermodel as she... Alessandra Ambrosio shows flat stomach in black crop top... America's Next Top Model contestant Dustin McNeer arrested... Irina Shayk cuts a casual figure in cuffed denim … [Read more...] about Heidi Klum looks fabulous in sweater and skinny jeans on outing with hubby Tom Kaulitz and dog Capper in LA