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This chapter focuses on the decision by the club’s owners, Sisu, to take the club out of Coventry for the 2013/14 season to play home matches 35 miles away at Northampton Town. It addresses the social relations between fans, the media, and the club, particularly around collective mobilization, interaction, tactics, networks, and protest and how these emerge through disharmony and a lack of trust between the key stakeholders. It also analyses the power in these relationships and the extent to which ‘success’ has been achieved through collective mobilization when the club returned back to the city to play its home matches in September 2014.
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This figure is before lost overseas television revenue is worked into the equation.
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Cleland, J., Doidge, M., Millward, P., Widdop, P. (2018). ‘Bringing City Home’: Coventry City, Sisu Capital, and the Ricoh Arena. In: Collective Action and Football Fandom. Palgrave Studies in Relational Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73141-4_4
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