COVENTRY CITY FOOTBALL CLUB AND THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE
- Session: 2013-14
- Date tabled: 18.07.2013
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That this House notes that the March and April 2008 board minutes show that Coventry City Football Club Ltd (CCFC) had ownership of the Football League's golden share and the registration of the playing staff and that since then various service agreements with the club's many managers' and players' contracts continued to be vested with the company; further notes that the accounts for year ending 31 May 2011 showed playing staff contracts were still owned by the company; calls on the Football League to explain why it has allowed those contracts to be altered to the ownership of CCFC Holdings Ltd, an entity that has not possessed the golden share, in contradiction of its own clearly stated rules; further calls on it to explain why it agreed to allow the club to leave the Coventry area in a ground share with Northampton Town without obliging the club's owners to demonstrate a clear plan with timescales for its return to Coventry, again in clear contradiction of its own policies; further calls on it to reveal whether it received a 12-page solicitor's letter on the eve of agreeing to do so on behalf of the club's owners; and further calls on it to co-operate fully with those charged with discovering how the company's assets have been removed and to review its decision to allow the ground share with Northampton Town.