"I helped Coventry City make history" (1 Viewer)

[SkyBlueCharlie]

Having a bit of a clear out this morning and came across this:




As I remember it was quite a sunny afternoon, the team doing a training session on the pitch and as I sat and looked around the Arena it all seemed worthwhile...the future would be Sky Blue....ahh well another shattered dream. Anyone else remember the day?

 

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[Covkid1968#]

I thought for a minute Andy Thorn had finished his eagerly awaited autobiography!!! But I belive he's called it "How I assisted Coventry City's slow and painful demise into obscurity"

 

[covcity4life]

Having a bit of a clear out this morning and came across this:

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As I remember it was quite a sunny afternoon, the team doing a training session on the pitch and as I sat and looked around the Arena it all seemed worthwhile...the future would be Sky Blue....ahh well another shattered dream. Anyone else remember the day?

ahh i have mine somewhere, hope i have not thrown it away

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

Ah the vomitories.....

 

[SkyBlueCharlie]

Ah the vomitories.....

No...it was more the sunshine, a couple of beers and my rose-tinted glasses. Or were you talking about another type of vomit?:thinking about:

 

[hill83]

ahh i have mine somewhere, hope i have not thrown it away

That was your only visit to the Ricoh wasn't it?

 

[skybluetony176]

That was your only visit to the Ricoh wasn't it?

1 more than Joy still

 

[ohitsaidwalker king power]

I thought for a minute Andy Thorn had finished his eagerly awaited autobiography!!! But I belive he's called it "How I assisted Coventry City's slow and painful demise into obscurity"

Prologue by a one Tim Fisher?

 

[torchomatic]

Yeah, I remember going to that.

 

[Cheshire Sky Blue]

Wow I remember that. Why does it feel that it was decades ago? we seem to have travelled a strange and difficult road since then. Great Pics Torchomatic

 

[torchomatic]

Certainly was impressive when we first went in and sat in our seats. We were in the same ones for the next seven and a half years.

Wow I remember that. Why does it feel that it was decades ago? we seem to have travelled a strange and difficult road since then. Great Pics Torchomatic

 

[SkyBlueCharlie]

Certainly was impressive when we first went in and sat in our seats. We were in the same ones for the next seven and a half years.

Same here...Block 29, row T, great bunch of lads around me, (nearly) always enjoyed being there. God I do miss it!

 

[CJ_covblaze]

Went to that. Remember being taken back thinking I can't believe that this is actually happening. They made a mistake for the fire drill at the end by deciding to tell everyone it was going to happen. Most knew they weren't in danger so went to the bogs!

 

[RoboCCFC90]

I remember the first words I said to my Dad when we walked up the steps and viewed the Ricoh for the first time..

 

[torchomatic]

"....I bet the rent on this doesn't come cheap..."?

I remember the first words I said to my Dad when we walked up the steps and viewed the Ricoh for the first time..

 

[RoboCCFC90]

"....I bet the rent on this doesn't come cheap..."?

That was about 5th/6th, my first words were "I prefer Highfield Road"

 

[torchomatic]

Yeah, I said that too.

That was about 5th/6th, my first words were "I prefer Highfield Road"

 

[hill83]

That was about 5th/6th, my first words were "I prefer Highfield Road"

Ha, I didn't go to the open day, but my first words were similar.

Then Claus Jorgenson scored and I nearly broke my ankle.

 

[RoboCCFC90]

Ha, I didn't go to the open day, but my first words were similar.

Then Claus Jorgenson scored and I nearly broke my ankle.

Every goal we scored from Claus Jorgenson's opener through to Baker's penalty against Brentford was celebrated like it was the first I had ever seen.. For me I never clicked with the Ricoh not like Highfield Road, the West End, if we could kick all the people out their swanky houses, run a bulldoser through them all and rebuild it brick by brick I'd pay money to watch.

 

[Grendel]

I thought for a minute Andy Thorn had finished his eagerly awaited autobiography!!! But I belive he's called it "How I assisted Coventry City's slow and painful demise into obscurity"

Talking about old Thorny dongle hasn't been on for a while informing us as to how Kidderminster are doing. How's it going Don?

 

[shmmeee]

I thought for a minute Andy Thorn had finished his eagerly awaited autobiography!!! But I belive he's called it "How I assisted Coventry City's slow and painful demise into obscurity"

Surely: I Helped Make Coventry City History