Otis
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Or on his verandah in Kenilworth, sipping Pimm's and wondering whether he should move or not.
Coventry, City of Culture 2021 (7 Viewers)
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Otis
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Exactly my argument, BBR. Have traveled far and wide through England and so many of the criticisms labelled against Coventry are clearly in evidence elsewhere.
pusbccfc
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David O'Day
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oscillatewildly
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Oh this could be a treat!!
Otis
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Typically they are indeed having another bash at Jimmy Hill and of course we HAD to have cheated.
Sad, pathetic little bunch aren't they.
pusbccfc
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Makes our deserved win even more sweet.
Otis
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oscillatewildly
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They don't like it up 'em, do they? There are some poor tortured souls boiling themselves in their own bitter piss on that board.
oscillatewildly
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To be fair I don't think the comment on 400 (it was nearer 600?) was meant in a 'not enough' type of way as I assume a couple of posters are judging it. There is the acknowledgement that our City was flattened but coupled with surprise I think that relatively so 'few' given the extent of devastation, lost their lives.
bringbackrattles
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Stoke,Sunderland,Swansea, Paisley, we gave you all one hell of a beating !
Otis
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Hmm, I didn't read it that way. Happy to be proved wrong, but that struck me as a dig, as in, why all the fuss when just 400 died. Not comparable to Hamburg's loss.
oscillatewildly
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Oh come on, rattles. You can do better than that! Something along the lines of - "Stanley Matthews, Josiah Wedgewood, James Bolam. Lauren Laverne, Dylan Thomas, Rob Brydon, My Grandad (RIP) and er, Bob". "Your Cities took a hell of a beating, a hell of a beating" !
Sky Blue Harry H
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Can't be arsed with any sour grapes from elsewhere - I just want the City to have a much needed kick start. It would be nice for people to regain that bit of lost pride in our city. If the football team can be a part of that, all the better. Any way you look at it, it should give the whole City and the surrounding area a massive boost..
Liquid Gold
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Fair play to the city and all concerned with the bid. My relationship with the city is at arms length most of the time now but I’m made up that something like this is happening to the city of my birth. If there are a few decent events it might even tempt me to visit more often.
Otis
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There will be lots I believe. Free concerts and events and theatre performances.
dongonzalos
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Best news in a long long time
NortonSkyBlue
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It's been a long hard journey for Coventry and I am delighted that it will have a light shone upon it in 2021.
Well done to many who have put pride back in to our city, such as JLR, the university's who bring people from all over the world and money with them, to all the people who invest in Coventry.
Coventry is the city of the jet engine, the city of the motor car, we have gone through tough times and like the Phoenix we have risen from the flames.
We have an inferiority complex, some feel that everywhere is better than our city but having lived in many places around the world Coventry is the green, green grass of home and every time I see the sign for Warwickshire on the motorway I know that soon I will be somewhere special.
Well done to all, it is about time we have some civic pride and I hope it lifts the cloud that has sat over the city and even exiles can bask in the warm glow of this decision.
Well done to many who have put pride back in to our city, such as JLR, the university's who bring people from all over the world and money with them, to all the people who invest in Coventry.
Coventry is the city of the jet engine, the city of the motor car, we have gone through tough times and like the Phoenix we have risen from the flames.
We have an inferiority complex, some feel that everywhere is better than our city but having lived in many places around the world Coventry is the green, green grass of home and every time I see the sign for Warwickshire on the motorway I know that soon I will be somewhere special.
Well done to all, it is about time we have some civic pride and I hope it lifts the cloud that has sat over the city and even exiles can bask in the warm glow of this decision.
clint van damme
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the mackems pain makes it all the more sweeter.
Otis
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It's all rather pathetic isn't it.
It's bad enough they are still so incredibly bitter about an incident on the football field some 40 years ago, but to hate an entire city based on one incident, in one single football game over 40 years ago is beyond all ridiculousness.
Corrado
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ha ha 17 pages of hate - fucking love it!
Otis
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Yep and the nonsense of it all is all the people calling Coventry a shit hole.
We all know the city and have lived or traveled around the city enough to be in a position to judge it so and if locals do call it a shit hole, then so be it, but the odds on these Sunderland fans coming down to Coventry to catch a game, but then also deciding to spend a day in the city centre to have a wander round the cathedral ruins and the transport museum and St. Mary's Guildhall etc. would be quite remote.
They come down to games and it is purely based on location of the ground and the local area surrounding the ground, so around Gosford Green area and Ball Hill and Highfield Road.
All fans do it and so many journeys into grounds can take you past rough areas of towns and cities (Birmingham City, Stoke's old stadium, Blackburn, Villa Park etc.etc.).
Their definition of shit hole is based on the journey to the ground and the area surrounding the ground and nowt else.
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Let's hope this news means we finally make the most of areas such as these.
Otis
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I'm sure we will. Think there is now finally a turnaround in the thinking here. Been botched up so many times, but the city centre is transforming.
My biggest gripe has always been that we have designed the city so it is easier to walk around the cathedral and the guildhall than it is to walk through and by it.
It should be the main walkway in.
So many Coventry folk don't even venture anywhere near the old cathedral ruins.
Ian1779
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I made my feelings clear on this before, but I am glad the city won. I was also pleased to see the football club finally involved in promoting the bid recently.
I just hope that the vermin rugby club don't start taking credit for it, or try and wangle popularity off the back of it.
I just hope that the vermin rugby club don't start taking credit for it, or try and wangle popularity off the back of it.
SkyBlueScottie
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Why not, everybody should love their City whether successive Councils have fucked it up or not, it is a fine City, we have not only suffered with most of our heritage being blasted to Smithereens we have also suffered at the hands of the Motor industry / manufacturing decline since the war ( after the initial boost) .
My only gripe is the lack of joined up thinking from the Council and also believe we have too many councillors who are only in the job as its a decent well paid career. E.G the city centre model, for years the council have been trying to improve it, while in the mean time allowing the building of out of town shopping parks, closing Woodlands school, to ensure the opening of Finham Park 2, now they are reconsidering opening Woodlands as the population models suggest there are not enough school places on that side of the City.
ccfc_ukr
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I think its a great thing, council, politics, football aside, it can only be a good thing for the city as a whole, and if it prompts some new developments or attracts a few business then great! its certainly not going to do us any harm. I don't understand the negativity towards it.
Nick
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It's not even about the council, it's just that aside from the things I mentioned there's nothing really enjoyable or a reason for me to venture into there (personally). Obviously the heritage like the Blitz, Lady Godiva, Cathedral etc is also something to be proud of (if being bombed is something to be proud of). Now my daughter is at the age she is learning about it, it means going back over it with her with things like the Cathedral, world war 2 etc.
Most of the out of town shopping parks you mention are taking away the need to into the town too.
If the city of culture means there is more in town to make people like me venture in more then it can only be a good thing.
Sky Blue Harry H
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Just had a trawl through the Sunderland forum thread. To be fair, although there were the expected anti-Coventry brigade, there were a fair few sensible posters on there too - and quite a strong message of all being deserving causes, on the basis of need and deprivation, which I think is a fair shout. One poster made me chuckle out loud, when at the end of his post he summed it up as follows......................We just got out trumped at shit town trumps that's all.