Coventry involves deliberate avoidance of someone typically as a form of punishment or disapproval. The team had a pact to put anyone who leaked tactics in coventry.
Pro Tip 2/3
Negative Emotion
Being sent to coventry is a negative experience and is used to show rejection or exclusion. He cheated during the game, so we're keeping him in coventry until he apologies.
Pro Tip 3/3
Not Literal
'Coventry' is not a physical place here, but a metaphorical state of being ignored. After the scandal, the politician found himself in coventry at social events.