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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group serves Coventry City FC eviction notice

Coventry City play Preston North End at Coventry Building Society arena, which Frasers Group bought last month from administrators.
Coventry City playing Preston North End at Coventry Building Society arena, which Frasers Group bought last month from administrators. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images/Reuters

Mike Ashley, the billionaire owner of Sports Direct and House of Fraser, has served Coventry City with an eviction notice ordering the Championship football club to leave its home stadium.

Frasers Group, which is majority owned by Ashley and took over the stadium last month, on Monday said the Sky Blues had no continuing rights to use the ground after the club refused to sign a new tenancy agreement it claimed was “less favourable”.

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