Ticket-holders at English League One third-tier clubs, Charlton Athletic and Coventry City, teamed up on Saturday to launch an unusual protest against their clubs’ owners.
Small plastic pigs were thrown onto the pitch at Charlton’s stadium, The Valley, leading to the game being suspended briefly.
The protest against Sisu, which owns Coventry, and Charlton’s Roland Duchatelet came after a collective march outside the ground before kick-off.
At kick-off the Coalition Against Roland Duchatelet tweeted: “Will the owners of Charlton & Coventry change their ways? Pigs might fly!”
Rick Everitt of the Coalition told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “They might shout misogyny whenever we protest, but by any indicators the management team has presided over a disaster. There has been a 40 per cent fall off in season tickets, with a consequent destruction in the atmosphere at home games.”
Numerous imaginative protests have been held at both clubs in recent months, with the Charlton protestors even printing an alternative match-day programme to hand out to fans outside The Valley.
Damian Collins MP, chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, said: “I’d like to see the same structure for a football club as you get for a FTSE 100 company: you have to have on the board an equal number of executive directors as full directors to provide independent scrutiny.”
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