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COVENTRY STADIUM SAGA AT AN END

By Joe Martin

RELIEF: Joy Seppala

THE long-running dispute over the sale of the Coventry Building Society Arena has ended.
The European Commission has closed the case into the sale of the ground to Wasps in 2014 and Coventry’s owners have ended all proceedings relating to the sale.
Coventry, who are back at the venue having had to relocate to both Northampton’s Sixfields and Birmingham’s St Andrew’s over the past decade, had argued the city council had undervalued the ground by £27m.
The dispute between the club’s owners and city council has been ongoing for years, but talks involvin...

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