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Coventry City supporters aren’t the only fans unhappy with their owners, a point underlined when they marched alongside Charlton supporters earlier this season.

But the Addicks seem to have taken their protests to a new level since then after video footage emerged of them gate-crashing the 70th birthday of Belgian billionaire owner Roland Duchatelet.

A group of Charlton fans travelled to Mr Duchatelet’s home town of St Truidan to deliver an unwelcome birthday surprise in the form of thousands of leaflets outlining their issues with his time running the club.

But while out and about they stumbled across Mr Duchatelet apparently enjoying a birthday meal with his family.

Much to the Belgian’s surprise, the group unfurled a banner outside the restaurant’s window which reads “Roland and Katrien time to go” also a reference to the club’s much maligned managing director Katrien Meire.

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Video footage of the incident posted online by the group of fans on Youtube has since gone viral.

A statement from the supporters,

accompanying the video, reads: “As a group of CAFC fans the decision was decided that we have had enough of Roland causing us grief and misery in our local area and that it was about time we took the protests to his home town.

“The plan, deliver 5,000 leaflets clearly laying out the damage that Roland had done to our club, and how he has quite bluntly, failed.

“This was a something we felt that Roland’s fellow St. Truidan’s deserved to know.

“Through a lot of planning and funded from our own pockets, we successfully posted this message to basically every home and local business in the town.

“And as it was Roland’s birthday weekend, we knew that if he was to surface it would be rude not wish him a happy birthday.

“Albeit a brief birthday celebration we could clearly see we had brightened up his birthday lunch, and felt we had done what was needed and got back to spreading the word around town.”

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Coventry City supporters have staged a series of their own protests against the club’s London hedge fund owners Sisu and its chief executive Joy Seppala in recent weeks.

Ahead of the 2-0 Ricoh Arena win over Rochdale, more than 2,000 supporters marched in protest at the management of Coventry City since Sisu took over in 2007. Some supporters also chose to boycott the game.

One week earlier, a joint protest with Charlton Athletic supporters saw thousands of plastic pigs thrown onto the pitch, delaying kick-off by almost ten minutes.

More recently a Halloween-themed protest saw thousands of signs featuring Ms Seppala in a witch’s hat produced and held up during the clash with Chesterfield.

There were no protests at the weekend out of respect for Remembrance Day activities.

A Telegraph petition calling on Sisu to put CCFC up for sale has attracted over 19,000 signatures.

You can sign it here .