There has been plenty of doom and gloom surrounding Coventry City football club over the years and this has worsened in recent times.
Coventry have not finished in the top six of any division since the 1960's.
Within the last five years, matters have worsened as the Sky Blues dropped to the third tier of English football after many years of flirting with the drop amid financial problems.
Nowadays, under the management of Tony Mowbray, Coventry have become embedded as a regular in League One.
There has still been no top six finish.
On the pitch things have not always gone to plan.
But matters are also dire off the pitch. Constant disputes with the owners and the council have Coventry fans in a perpetually worried state.
The great club who were once triumphant in the 1987 FA Cup final are having the heart ripped out of them.
Here are THREE of the many mistakes that have been made at Coventry City over the past five years.....
Selling club
One of the most tragic side-effects of dropping down the leagues is that Coventry have become a selling club.
Plenty of promising youngsters have come up through the ranks over the past five years and been subsequently moved on to higher clubs.
The prime example of this is Coventry's hand being forced in the sale of Callum Wilson to Bournemouth.
This summer Coventry had to settle for a compensation package as Premier League Everton swooped for promising academy striker Bassala Sambou.
This also happened with academy products Che Adams and Jonson Clarke-Harris.
James Maddison left for Norwich, Cyrus Christie joined Derby and Gael Bigirimana was snapped up by Newcastle.
The list goes on.
All of these have been raised from young by Coventry with time invested in these players and it is upsetting to see them all sold off for small profits.
The owners
Coventry owners SISU have ripped the core out of Coventry City and are continuing the ruin the club.
The fans are desperate for SISU to sell the club after they have moved Coventry out of the city to Northampton, sold a number of their players and are not reinvesting that money.
Instead plenty of money is being used on court cases in the ongoing debacle about Coventry using the Ricoh Arena.
To make matters worse, the future of the academy is in doubt, proposed plans to relocate into the city centre and share with Coventry Rugby have broken down and the Sky Blues might be ousted at the end of this season with no stadium to play in.
The future of Coventry City looks bleak whilst SISU are at the helm.
Not getting promoted last year
Last season Coventry City had the resources, the manager and the ability to get promoted.
They were champions elect for so long.
But they fell short after a disastrous second half of the season which would have got them relegated had they played like that all year.
The team was as good as it has been in many years.
There was a 20-goal striker in Adam Armstrong; Premier League experience and quality in Joe Cole; a solid defensive pairing in Aaron Martin and Jack Stephens; the best central midfield duo in the league with John Fleck and Romain Vincelot; pace, flair and skill in attacking midfield from Jacob Murphy, Jodi Jones, Ryan Kent and James Maddison.
Teams were scared of Coventry.
This was the year - it had to be but wasn't.
Coventry have lost Armstrong, Cole, Johnson, Martin, Murphy, Cargill, Stephens, Vincelot, Fleck, Kent, Maddison and Phillips.
The current team look a shadow of last season and promotion is way too optimistic from that bunch.
The Sky Blues could have had a similar team in the Championship this year.
Now they're fighting for survival in League One.