“The story of the summer so far” – Coventry City fan pundit issues honest response to frustrating off-pitch situation

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There has finally been some good news with the pitch situation at the CBS Arena, with the club confirming that home games can go ahead as planned from now on.

Coventry City are at a disadvantage having played three games less than the majority of the division and the squad will be tested with fixture congestion as they catch up with their second tier counter-parts.

Coventry impressed in their opening weekend 1-1 draw at Sunderland and could have taken all three points from Millwall in their last league outing, providing some optimism that they can improve on their 12th placed finish from last term.

Coventry City fan pundit Neil Littlewood has been left very frustrated by the slow start to the season for the Sky Blues.

Speaking to Football League World, Littlewood said: “Pitch-gate has been the story of the summer so far, to say the least.

“The Commonwealth Games happened over the weekend of the 29th to the 31st July, 63 games of Rugby I think were played, which was the equivalent of 15 football games in two days.

“No pitch was ever going to stand up to that.

“The problem is that we’re tenants in the stadium, so we’ve got no say in this, this was agreed back on 3rd September 2019, while we were still playing at St Andrew’s.

“So Wasps didn’t have to worry about how it impacted the football season.

“The biggest thing is, I don’t know if there were any requests to the EFL to play our first three games away from home, which I think we should’ve done, if we did then we would have had time to fix the pitch,