West Midlands MEP Nikki Sinclaire will meet with Football
League officials tomorrow to discuss the plight of Coventry City.
The meeting comes just 24 hours after Football League
officials gave the green light for the Sky Blues to move to Northampton for
potentially 5 seasons.
Nikki will meet with football league officials with her
ad-van which displays the message “Keep CCFC IN COVENTRY”.
The We Demand a Referendum Now MEP said,
“The Football League has a motto that says ‘Real Football,
Real Fans’. I am coming to the Football League to express the feelings of the
real fans, who are dismayed by the plans to move the football club.
As an AFC Wimbledon fan, I know exactly what happens when
clubs move away from their homes.
I want to be able to present the fans questions to this
governing body and simply ask one question: WHY”.
She added, “We must do
everything we can to protect local clubs, and the fear is with a move
away from their home City, support will dwindle and the club ill fade into the history of football.
Fans have no reassurances that football will return to
Coventry City. This is simply wrong.”
The MEP for the West Midlands has been working with local
clubs since becoming an MEP in 2009 and wrote to the Government in 2012 urging
them to do more to prevent clubs falling into wrong hands.
