An insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill (13 Viewers)

[Voice_of_Reason]

The present day ccfc is an insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill and all he achieved for the Sky Blues. He transformed an ailing club into a major force and built a foundation for it's future only to have it dismantled over the last ten years by successive owners before sisu arrived to virtually finish it's demolition.
I can no longer live on memories of the 60's 70's 80's and 90's,
although they will always remain dear to my heart.
I no longer recognise ccfc as my club, the ccfc I new has been in terminal decline until, to my mind, it no longer exists.
I have no enthusiasm for the team now masquerading as ccfc, to me it no longer is ccfc - my ccfc is no more. It has passed away. RIP ccfc.

 

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[oucho]

I for one do think that the day-by-day focus we all have tends to make us overlook the reality of where we are..I remember Cov in the 90s beating Man U 3-2 at HR, Arsenal 2-0 at HR when they had Bergkamp and Anelka up front (about 30 yards from each other as was pointed out on MotD that night), Liverpool away..now when we beat the likes of Chesterfield at home people leave the ground with a spring in their step. Understandable but nonetheless you are right when you take a step back it is even more shocking.

 

[fernandopartridge]

The present day ccfc is an insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill and all he achieved for the Sky Blues. He transformed an ailing club into a major force and built a foundation for it's future only to have it dismantled over the last ten years by successive owners before sisu arrived to virtually finish it's demolition.
I can no longer live on memories of the 60's 70's 80's and 90's,
although they will always remain dear to my heart.
I no longer recognise ccfc as my club, the ccfc I new has been in terminal decline until, to my mind, it no longer exists.
I have no enthusiasm for the team now masquerading as ccfc, to me it no longer is ccfc - my ccfc is no more. It has passed away. RIP ccfc.

Oh you're back again you melodramatic nana

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

Oh you're back again you melodramatic nana

Hello, my friend, you are free to comment of course, but what is your opinion of the present day ccfc? I don't know if you go back to the 60's and the Jimmy Hill era?
How do you see a future for the company calling itself ccfc Ltd?

 

[Nick]

https://www.tifosy.com/en/campaigns/do-your-bit-for-the-jimmy-hill-legacy-fund

Get some donations to there if you want to preach about Jimmy Hill

 

[clint van damme]

The present day ccfc is an insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill and all he achieved for the Sky Blues. He transformed an ailing club into a major force and built a foundation for it's future only to have it dismantled over the last ten years by successive owners before sisu arrived to virtually finish it's demolition.
I can no longer live on memories of the 60's 70's 80's and 90's,
although they will always remain dear to my heart.
I no longer recognise ccfc as my club, the ccfc I new has been in terminal decline until, to my mind, it no longer exists.
I have no enthusiasm for the team now masquerading as ccfc, to me it no longer is ccfc - my ccfc is no more. It has passed away. RIP ccfc.

that's simply not true, we're in the shit. The future's not looking too rosy. But where there's life there's hope - we're not done yet.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

What's there to disagree with?

 

[Grendel]

Hello, my friend, you are free to comment of course, but what is your opinion of the present day ccfc? I don't know if you go back to the 60's and the Jimmy Hill era?
How do you see a future for the company calling itself ccfc Ltd?

Hill would have always said under adversity support the team. I suspect his real ire would have been made at those who try and divide fans with the NOPM tripe.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Hill would have always said under adversity support the team. I suspect his real ire would have been made at those who try and divide fans with the NOPM tripe.

NOPM is nothing to do with the opening thread is it ?

 

[Voice_of_Reason]

NOPM is nothing to do with the opening thread is it ?

It is amazing how soon any opening thread is soon taken out of context. I just wonder how many of those responding were actually around in the 60's to experience the work of Jh?

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

I wasn't old enough unfortunately, but I became hooked on the era of Gordon Milne.
It seems to me that if you simply decide enough is enough then you are deemed to be on the NOPM list. There must be at least 15,000 on that .

 

[Houchens Head]

I have to admit to being of the same mind as VOR. I too, was brought up in the JH era - saw my first game in 1964 - but now, I tend to look out for the result on Saturday teatime and if they've won then great, but if they've lost, well, I just don't get upset any more.
At one time I wouldn't get over a loss until at least the following Thursday, and was a nightmare to be around with, but now I'm afraid it's just a shrug of the shoulders and the thought of "Ah well, there's always the next game...."

 

[David O'Day]

The present day ccfc is an insult to the memory of Jimmy Hill and all he achieved for the Sky Blues. He transformed an ailing club into a major force and built a foundation for it's future only to have it dismantled over the last ten years by successive owners before sisu arrived to virtually finish it's demolition.
I can no longer live on memories of the 60's 70's 80's and 90's,
although they will always remain dear to my heart.
I no longer recognise ccfc as my club, the ccfc I new has been in terminal decline until, to my mind, it no longer exists.
I have no enthusiasm for the team now masquerading as ccfc, to me it no longer is ccfc - my ccfc is no more. It has passed away. RIP ccfc.

Bloody Glory Hunters

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Bloody Glory Hunters

.....this is Coventry City, not Manchester City.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

I have to admit to being of the same mind as VOR. I too, was brought up in the JH era - saw my first game in 1964 - but now, I tend to look out for the result on Saturday teatime and if they've won then great, but if they've lost, well, I just don't get upset any more.
At one time I wouldn't get over a loss until at least the following Thursday, and was a nightmare to be around with, but now I'm afraid it's just a shrug of the shoulders and the thought of "Ah well, there's always the next game...."

That's just a coping strategy that comes with experience of following the Sky Blues for as long as a lot of us on here have! To be fair, if we couldn't deal with it a lot of our partners would have ditched us a long time ago. IIRC I'm sure that a City fan made the front of the Sun many decades ago for having beaten his wife tio death with a coffee table after she'd laughed at him when City had been thrashed at Newcastle. Hopefully in a year or two we'll all look back on this as the lowest point in our proud history. Hang in there everybody.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

That was the replay we lost 5-0. A city fan died on the way home by smashing his car into a motorway bridge. I recall it being headlines in the Sun/.Mirror which commented that "he had CCFC tattoed on his left hand" I was a teenager but it has always stayed with me. I was shocked.

 

[David O'Day]

.....this is Coventry City, not Manchester City.

.....this is Coventry City, not Manchester City.

Whoosh

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

That was the replay we lost 5-0. A city fan died on the way home by smashing his car into a motorway bridge. I recall it being headlines in the Sun/.Mirror which commented that "he had CCFC tattoed on his left hand" I was a teenager but it has always stayed with me. I was shocked.

Shows how my mind has addled over the years - remember it was that game (can't think why I have conjured up a 'lost it at laughing wife' - but either way, a tragedy.
P.S. Remember Alan Dugdale (and his moustache) - but preferred Roy Barry !!

 

[skybluetony176]

Hill would have always said under adversity support the team. I suspect his real ire would have been made at those who try and divide fans with the NOPM tripe.

What a crock of shit. JH understood the value of fans and how important courting fans was by going to factories, running trains, working hard to get the next generation etc. etc. etc.

Things that the current regime would never think off, consider or execute. You're a fucking idiot of the worse kind for even suggesting what you have.

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

It could be that both are true. For some reason I seem to have it in my head that the driver deliberately killed himself after the match on his way home , though it could have been an accident. I didn't know about the other event but that's bloody terrible as well.

 

[Nick]

What a crock of shit. JH understood the value of fans and how important courting fans was by going to factories, running trains, working hard to get the next generation etc. etc. etc.

Things that the current regime would never think off, consider or execute. You're a fucking idiot of the worse kind for even suggesting what you have.

I guess you will be at the Xmas party to see about the next generation?

 

[skybluetony176]

It is amazing how soon any opening thread is soon taken out of context. I just wonder how many of those responding were actually around in the 60's to experience the work of Jh?

You said something that ultimately is criticism of SISU. Some on here just can't stand by and let that happen.

I wasn't around to see the JH era. It's the ones that were I feel most sorry for.

 

[skybluetony176]

I guess you will be at the Xmas party to see about the next generation?

Because I won't be does that mean I'm not allowed to have an opinion and post it on here?

Get over yourself you sanctimonious little prick.

 

[Nick]

Because I won't be does that mean I'm not allowed to have an opinion and post it on here?

Get over yourself you sanctimonious little prick.

No, it means you are going on about the club and the next generation etc etc but have no idea what you are talking about it seems.

Calm yourself down a bit.

 

[David O'Day]

What a crock of shit. JH understood the value of fans and how important courting fans was by going to factories, running trains, working hard to get the next generation etc. etc. etc.

Things that the current regime would never think off, consider or execute. You're a fucking idiot of the worse kind for even suggesting what you have.

That is not an answer to that question

 

[skybluetony176]

No, it means you are going on about the club and the next generation etc etc but have no idea what you are talking about it seems.

Calm yourself down a bit.

You stop throwing the better fan than you card around like a sanctimonious little prick and I'll calm down. It's not the first time you've done it today to me and indeed you're doing it with increasingly regularity to me. I'll stop calling you a sanctimonious little prick when you stop acting like one. In other words you stop using the how many games you been to card etc. You keep using them I'll call you a sanctimonious little prick every time.

 

[Nick]

You stop throwing the better fan than you card around like a sanctimonious little prick and I'll calm down. It's not the first time you've done it today to me and indeed you're doing it with increasingly regularity to me. I'll stop calling you a sanctimonious little prick when you stop acting like one. In other words you stop using the how many games you been to card etc. You keep using them I'll call you a sanctimonious little prick every time.

I haven't said anything about a better fan, I was asking if you were going to the kids party as you commented on the next generation so I just assumed you actually knew what you were talking about.

Keep an eye out for the thread though, no doubt be pictures of hundreds of young CCFC fans with smiles on their faces having a great time.

I'd say the stuff being done for the future generation is actually something JH could say was decent.

 

[skybluetony176]

That is not an answer to that question

It wasn't a question it was an assumption of what JH would have thought about NOPM. Given how hard JH worked to attract fans I doubt he would have said anything like it. He understood it wasn't a god given right to fill a stadium and worked hard with initiative, acumen, desire, passion, communication and respect to achieve it. Qualities all missing from the club under the current owners. The OP is exactly right.

 

[skybluetony176]

I haven't said anything about a better fan, I was asking if you were going to the kids party as you commented on the next generation so I just assumed you actually knew what you were talking about.

Keep an eye out for the thread though, no doubt be pictures of hundreds of young CCFC fans with smiles on their faces having a great time.

This is why you're a sanctimonious little prick. You know exactly what you were saying and why.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

What a crock of shit. JH understood the value of fans and how important courting fans was by going to factories, running trains, working hard to get the next generation etc. etc. etc.

Things that the current regime would never think off, consider or execute. You're a fucking idiot of the worse kind for even suggesting what you have.

And for that reason alone the action group use his name.
When his family was asked for permission they said yes 100 percent.
"If Jimmy was still alive he would come down there and join you."

 

[skybluetony176]

And for that reason alone the action group use his name.
When his family was asked for permission they said yes 100 percent.
"If Jimmy was still alive he would come down there and join you."

Can't be true. Grendull said otherwise.

 

[Nick]

This is why you're a sanctimonious little prick. You know exactly what you were saying and why.

Did it touch a nerve or something? Calm down trying to call other people little, it makes you look silly.

I only commented on the kids stuff.

 

[oucho]

Did it touch a nerve or something? Calm down trying to call other people little, it makes you look silly.

I only commented on the kids stuff.

Silly is proclaiming to have lots of good ideas about how to unite the fans against SISU and then resolutely refuse to post them when put on the spot, in a thread dedicated to that very topic!!

What have we learned...it's harder to have good ideas than to criticise other peoples'.

 

[Nick]

Silly is proclaiming to have lots of good ideas about how to unite the fans against SISU and then resolutely refuse to post them when put on the spot, in a thread dedicated to that very topic!!

What have we learned...it's harder to have good ideas than to criticise other peoples'.

Nah, we have learnt you don't know what you are talking about...Again.

 

[dongonzalos]

NOPM is nothing to do with the opening thread is it ?

Slight of hand. OSB suggests SISU do this a lot, don't look here look over here.....