A Level Playing Field At Last For SP?

Steven Pressley has had to contend with two 10-point penalties since becoming Coventry City manager in March last year but the Scot may get a level playing field (albeit a Sixfields one) next season.

With Coventry City having filed their accounts on time, avoiding a fourth transfer embargo, and non-executive director Mark Labovitch claiming that owners Sisu will continue to financially support the club, 2014/15 should see the Sky Blues without an asterisk next to their name in the League table.

Mr Labovitch told the CT: ‘In the longer term the position is very, very clear. No football club can be secure in the long term unless it owns its own stadium and has access to all the revenues on a match day.

‘If we can’t buy the stadium that`s already there, which it looks increasingly like we can’t, we have to build our own.’

Whether the type of budget available to the manager will be reduced further as a result of financial fair play measures remains to be seen but Pressley deserves a genuine shot at promotion based on what happens on the pitch and nothing else.