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I posted this thread a couple of days ago. I did so under a new pseudonym, MrMagic as I wanted to keep responses to this separate to my normal alter ego on here. The thread disappeared and although I have no message to tell me so, I am assuming that you can only have one username. Anyway, here...

My son and myself were talking about the atmosphere at the games this season both before and after the match the other night. Walking up to the game 45 minutes before kick off, it was like things used to be, crowds milling about and areal expectant feeling to the night. He is 34 and said he can...

Chris Chilton was a centre forward bought by Noel Cantwell in the early 70s. He played most of his career for Hull and arrived at City and in the top flight quite late in his career. He didn't have the best of times with us and I think he was forced to retire through injury not to long after...

One of the unfortunate consequences of the likely non playing end to this season is that this team's remarkable ability not to lose may not be recognised in the record books. I make it 14 league games unbeaten since we had the 'Just Listen To Me' thread after defeat at Shrewsbury in January. I...

I don’t normally read this part of the forum too much so apologies if this has been discussed before. I live in North Warwickshire so travel along the Tamworth Road quite a lot. The Old Hall pub and restaurant, which used to be a nice old building, has been under renovation now for what seems to...

For the past week we have been on holiday in Croatia (plane touches down at 2pm on Saturday at Birmingham Airport (hopefully), so there will be a mad dash to the Ricoh for as near to 3pm as we can get). Being abroad has given me the chance to use Ifollow for the first time and we managed to...

My son came around the house for his tea tonight. He works evenings and weekends so it is hard for him to get to many games. He was telling me that he tried to get into last night’s game.He finished work early so he thought he would get to the Ricoh for the second half. Having parked up he got...

When this was mentioned in the summer, I thought it was a great idea for fans who live abroad and would never get to see a game. However, reading comments on here it is obviously available to anyone that wants it, maybe even free on Facebook? My question would be: is streaming like this going to...

One of the things I have found most surprising about this season is the difference in quality of the players and their performances in these two leagues. The gulf in class seems enormous. Yesterday was the fourth time this season we have played a third division team. We played a weakened team...

We've made the shortlist along with Sunderland. If we win it'll obviously be because the voting started 15 minutes late.

I was talking to my son as we walked across Tesco car park after the game tonight. Hard to be made even gloomier after that result and performance but what he told me made me more depressed and also annoyed. He told me that the presentation put forward by the body promoting Coventry as The City...

In the past week I have come across three companies that have Sky Blue as part of their name, Sky Blue Pizzas, Sky Blue Fixings, a company in Stoke Coventry and Sky Blue Roofing. You would think that being in Coventry all of these are named in honour of our team. I wondered how many other Sky...

Fifty years ago today "The Midlands match of the century" as Jimmy Hill called it , took place at Highfield Road. What a day and what a game! The official attendance was 51400 but no one knows how many were really there as some of the gates, closed half a hour before kick of, were broken down...

These are the gates for the trophy finals over the past twenty years. 2016 Barnsley Oxford 59k 2015 Bristol C Walsall 72k 2014 Chesterfield Peterborough 36k 2013 Crewe Southend 44k 2012 Chesterfield Swindon 50k 2011 Carlisle Brentford 40k 2010 Carlisle Southampton 73k 2009 Luton Scunthorpe 55k...

I was in the chip shop in Kingsbury this evening waiting to be served. And noticed that they had the quote below stencilled on the wall facing the counter so that everyone working there would see it. It is a quote from Ghandi. A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not...

At the risk of sounding like the old git that I undoubtedly am, I was comparing today's experience to when I first went to Highfield Road. Fifty years ago today my dad finally gave in to me pestering him all of the time and took me to my first game. This was against fellow promotion chasing...

i can't see this mentioned anywhere else on here but apologies if I have missed it. At the end of the phone in there was a call from the chap who is the chair of the Diamond Club. I think his name was Ray. He really laid into the SCG saying that it is made up of people who are to afraid to...

I know I will be whistling in the wind on this and will be jumped on by lots on here. I can't be bothered to post the same thing on three or four threads calling for TM to go. This is my view on why Mowbray should stay. I have watched Coventry City from 1967 to the present. I only say this as it...

I went last night which was the first competitive game I have seen this season due to being on holiday. It is also the first game I have seen at Carrow Road for nearly forty years. The last time I was there was to see us win 2 - 1 with goals from, I think Ian Wallace and certainly from Garry...

We listened to Peak Radio on the way home yesterday as they cover Chesterfield matches. It was interesting to hear some of their views. Some clips of the commentary were played. The pitch invaders were described as "cretins" and the guy who confronted the goalkeeper, Tommy Lee, was a "moron"...