Coventry fans invade pitch in clash against Sheffield United in protest at club owners
Billy Sharp made it a hellish night for Coventry City football club after pitch invasion halted game in the 86th minute before the winner was scored a minute after the re-start
COVENTRY fans staged a pitch invasion to protest at club owners SISU as City crashed again.
Billy Sharp’s 90th-minute winner — his second goal of the game — came just moments after the players had returned to the pitch following the second on-field protest.
Victory fired United up to second in League One and handed Coventry a SIXTH straight league defeat, despite Daniel Agyei’s 51st-minute leveller.
But the night was dominated by Sky Blues supporters blowing whistles throughout in a bid to disrupt the game.
There were several ‘SISU out’ flags and banners in a message to City’s London hedge-fund owners.
And in the dying moments a group of fans raced on to the pitch forcing referee David Webb to take the players off for six minutes.
Blades substitute Caolan Lavery had earlier hit the woodwork twice in the space of four minutes.
But when home goalkeeper Reice Charles-Cook could only parry a shot, Sharp reacted quickest to fire home the winner.