First Ever Cov Match You Saw ? (5 Viewers)

[BigCyrille87]

One of my first games was back in the 1977/8 season when my dad took me and my brother to a Christmas game... I think we beat Norwich City 5-4, and Highfield Road was bouncing! I was only 6 - happy days

 

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[Samo]

v QPR circa 76/77? Evening game, 2-1 win I think?

 

[Moff]

Anyone remember the pre-season friendly that we played Benfica at Highfield Rd? It was 10th August 1996. Can't remember the score. I'd not long met the current 'er indoors and was trying to impress her with footie. Don't know what went wrong though. She now has as much interest in footie as I have in synchronised swimming!

Yeah we got battered, I know they scored 7, and from a quick check it appears we scored 2. There's a video of some of the goals on here, not sure how to link the thread though.

Yep it was 7-2. Can remember sitting in the East stand mouth wide open as we were destroyed by a fantastic team.
I seem to recall we didn't get off to the best of starts that season, and this was the beginning of the end for Regis Genaux's time at the club, before the season had even started.

 

[bringbackrattles]

One of my first games was back in the 1977/8 season when my dad took me and my brother to a Christmas game... I think we beat Norwich City 5-4, and Highfield Road was bouncing! I was only 6 - happy days

That was when Blyth saved a last minute penalty to earn us the win. What a game that was one of the most thrilling ever !

 

[Nick]

I can't remember the exact game, I was about 4 or 5.

Strangely the only thing I can remember is walking from a pub on Gosford St, a Shop that sold army type jackets and having a Lemonade Panda Pop.

 

[bringbackrattles]

I can't remember the exact game, I was about 4 or 5.

Strangely the only thing I can remember is walking from a pub on Gosford St, a Shop that sold army type jackets and having a Lemonade Panda Pop.

That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !

 

[Nick]

That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !

Yeah, I think it had like a big canopy (like a market) that came out with all of the stuff in.

Weird things to remember really.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !

Used to get my school rucksacks from there. They used to sell gas masks and all sorts of old army gear.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Yeah, I think it had like a big canopy (like a market) that came out with all of the stuff in.

Weird things to remember really.

Riddys is a Cov legend shop. The stuff you could get in there was an Alladins cave. I would get vests, and they sold army haversacks, all the rage back then. Also Sweeney barbers was there too, to be in with the crowd that's where you had to have your haircut !

 

[peeler]

1969 22nd Nov
Sky Blues (1) vs Newcastle United (0) Ernie Hunt (Pen)

 

[Nick]

Riddys is a Cov legend shop. The stuff you could get in there was an Alladins cave. I would get vests, and they sold army haversacks, all the rage back then. Also Sweeney barbers was there too, to be in with the crowd that's where you had to have your haircut !

Yeah, I can remember it wasn't cheap printed camo stuff. It was more stuff that has actually been in the middle of a desert or Russia etc.

 

[cov_george]

Cov v Nottingham Forest 1978, not sure whether it was at end of 77/78 season or start of 78/79 season, both games finished 0-0 stood in the west end

 

[block30bloke]

v Southampton 79/80 season .... won 3-0, Garry Thompson scoring a brace.

 

[rondog1973]

Cov v Nottingham Forest 1978, not sure whether it was at end of 77/78 season or start of 78/79 season, both games finished 0-0 stood in the west end

Same here. Forest were champions I think or would go on to be that season. Smell of Bovril, cigar smoke. 3 wheeled pensioner vehicles at the side of the pitch and David Essex's 'Oh what a circus' blaring out the tannoy. Attended v Norwich a few days/weeks later and we won 4-1. 5 years old.

 

[Danceswithhorses]

1977...pre season friendly against a japanese side i think - no idea who ?
Fab experience though, and fan ever since.

 

[LilleSkyBlue]

1-0 against Wimbledon in October 1986. Dave Bennett scored.

My name was read out on the tannoy because it was my 11th birthday. I sat with my dad and grandad. Think I'm about to cry now.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

I was hooked long before I went but my dad, although he liked to see that we had won, was not a fan and was never going to take me. I used to religiously watch Grandstand to get the final scores coming through from the early 70s and when we had midweek games I used to get up early so that I could get the score from the Daily Mirror that my dad had bought on his way home from the nightshift at Massey's, sometimes they read the scores out at the end of the 9 o'clock news on bbc1. I remember crying when I went downstairs full of excitement to find out that we had lost 6-1 to Bayern Munich. My mum & dad had friends who lived just off the Binley Road at Stoke Green and I remember watching all the fans come out after wishing that I had been to watch them, I was not happy when I found out we had lost 3-0 to Stoke! I am sure the game kicked off at 3:15 and the result was late in and I think this was the norm and our home games alway kicked off at 3:15 in the early 70s.

Finally on 17th April 1973 my brother came home to say he was going to watch us play LIverpool and I went along. I stood on the Kop and couldn't see alot and even though we lost 2-1 I knew I would be back.

I remember a home game v Stoke around that time where we lost 0-3 and City had a late penalty. Plenty of us were leaving the Sky Blue Stand and tried to get back in to see the penalty....which was missed.
Kick offs were 3.15 back then, I think to accommodate the large number of factory workers who did a shift on Saturday mornings.

 

[Ranjit Bhurpa]

Same here. Forest were champions I think or would go on to be that season. Smell of Bovril, cigar smoke. 3 wheeled pensioner vehicles at the side of the pitch and David Essex's 'Oh what a circus' blaring out the tannoy. Attended v Norwich a few days/weeks later and we won 4-1. 5 years old.

Think that was the game Forest got the point that won them the title. Big crowd c.36k and a worldie save from Shilton to deny Mick Ferguson.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

1977...pre season friendly against a japanese side i think - no idea who ?
Fab experience though, and fan ever since.

I think it was the Japan National side. I must have gone as I have the programme at home but cant remember much about it.

 

[Danceswithhorses]

I think it was the Japan National side. I must have gone as I have the programme at home but cant remember much about it.

Wow...no one i've mentioned it to in the past, remembers it.
Thanks...i'm not going mad...i did happen lol
It was a night game i think...just remember how green the pitch was under the floodlights

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

BBC SPORT | COVENTRY CITY | Ajax clean up at Coventry

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Thank you! To this day I didn't know Ajax scored a 3rd! Whoever took me to games always brought me back early to 'beat the rush'...

... I remember one vs Cardiff with JSB's, my mum came and picked me up after 60-odd minutes because they had a bad reputation. In fairness, she spared me the last half an hour of a dire 0-0 draw.

 

[Houchens Head]

Yeah, I can remember it wasn't cheap printed camo stuff. It was more stuff that has actually been in the middle of a desert or Russia etc.

That was Riddys army and navy surplus shop. The pub was probably the White Lion ? Nearly next door to Riddys. That was a great shop, when I was a skinhead I bought grandad vests there !

 

[Nick]

Thats the fella! Remember that more than the pub though.

 

[ajsccfc]

I remember Juventus were meant to play at the Ricoh in pre-season but Ranieri pulled out of the game. Between that and the Leicester success I don't find him all that likeable.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

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Used Riddys on the Foleshill Road great place to buy gas masks etc you know all the essentials

 

[The Penguin]

My first game was on November 27, 1999, at home to Leicester. I'd landed in England twelve hours earlier, stayed at another Cov fan's place in London, then got the train up, met my English-based family who I'd never met before, then walked up to Highfield Road.

We lost 1-0 but it didn't matter, being in a ground my dad had spoken of so glowingly for many years was bloody brilliant.

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

My first game was on November 27, 1999, at home to Leicester. I'd landed in England twelve hours earlier, stayed at another Cov fan's place in London, then got the train up, met my English-based family who I'd never met before, then walked up to Highfield Road.

We lost 1-0 but it didn't matter, being in a ground my dad had spoken of so glowingly for many years was bloody brilliant.

I guess you are from the Antarctic?

 

[The Penguin]

I guess you are from the Antarctic?

Nah, Melbourne, which at the moment is about the same temperature!

 

[steve82]

Monday 14th September 92 live on sky sports in the first season of the premier league v spurs aged 10

John Williams scored the goal in a 1-0 win.

Then WBA manager Ossie Ardiles was sat on the end of the row next to me. Went home beaming seeing us win and ossie's autograph

 

[Nick]

One of my other early memories is I am sure it was also on sky when it first started. I think they had fireworks, fire, half time music and everything.

 

[covcity4life]

first game at ground was vs west ham in aug 1993

first game ever? damn not sure, remember beating blackburn on sky with julian darby scoringt but that would be afer 93. maybe the swindon 1-1 that cut off for swindons eqauliser,once againt hat may have eben after the west ham game though

 

[torchomatic]

One of my other early memories is I am sure it was also on sky when it first started. I think they had fireworks, fire, half time music and everything.

YEs, they did. They had "live" music too. I remember an away game at Forest where they had that duo who wore their jeans back to front.

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Home to Leeds in (I think) 1969.

I remember that we lost 2-1, but Ernie Hunt scored at the Spion Kop end.

 

[lifeskyblue]

October 1965....seventh birthday... I think it was Portsmouth...can't remember score. Dad for that and following season carried up a small stool for me to stand on the kop (just to left of goal when looking towards pitch). Hooked ever since.
Only regret is the Northampton year...we didn't go and dad passed away just before we returned to the Ricoh. He used to apologise for me being born in Coventry and not in Manchester or Liverpool etc but I wouldn't have changed anything (well ok perhaps the relegations and humiliating cup exits).


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[The Great Eastern]

My first CCFC game was September 1966 and the world cup win turned me onto football like many a youngster. It was against Bury and we won 3-0 with goals by Bobby Gould (2) and John Tudor.
My first actual proffesional game was at Carrow Rd a few years earlier when on holiday in Norfolk. As best as I can remember, it was 0-0 and a borefest.
I was at that Palace game when Clive Allen 'scored' that thunderous free kick. I was in the SB terrace and, like everyone round me, was utterly astonished that it wasn't given. Gerry Daly was the main instigator in conning the officials that it had hit the post !
Happy days