One of my favourite festive games (4 Viewers)
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Londonccfcfan
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Oh yes!
Londonccfcfan
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Were they not the champions then?
rondog1973
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Best yuletide game ever?
Cov 4 Spurs 3 27/12/86
Cov 4 Spurs 3 27/12/86
Sky Blue Harry H
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City 5-4 v Norwich (Blyth saved a last minute penalty to stop a 5-5) on Boxing Day in 1786
no_loyalty
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The boxing day win over the Villa was also memorable
chinamans view
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you were not alive in 1786 haha could not be true lol
christonabike
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Didn’t Chris White play in that game?
Leamington Pete
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Fantastic game, shame there's no footage of it. And Blythy did the same a couple of weeks later against Liverpool when we won 1-0. Norwich game was actually on 27th but we remember it as a Boxing Day game. Maybe one of those unofficial "Boxing Days" due to 26th being a Sunday? Can't be bothered to check!
Liquid Gold
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Yeah I remember that one. We all drank a toast to mad king George at half time.
no_loyalty
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Yes he did
ovduk78
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He did. I remember it as the game Lars Bohinen was substituted because he couldn't see the orange ball & it turned out he was colour blind. The game was actually on January 9th, so not as festive as it appears
clint van damme
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probably my 2 favourite ever City games for sheer entertainment.
Londonccfcfan
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Mate it don’t get better than 1997 I think.
Beat Man united at Home 3-2 in the league, then knock out Liverpool Away in the Fa Cup.
Weeks don’t get better than that! Those were the days.
Beat Man united at Home 3-2 in the league, then knock out Liverpool Away in the Fa Cup.
Weeks don’t get better than that! Those were the days.
DazzleTommyDazzle
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We'd played at Villa (1-1) on Boxing Day.
We'd played at Villa on Boxing Day - drew 1-1.
Imagine the reaction of today's managers to two games in two days!
The Reverend Skyblue
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Me and my Dad sat in the press seats with our smuggled in fish and chips as normal for this one.
Otis
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Leamington Pete
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Forgot that yes. Wouldn't happen these days!
cov4theprem
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Leeds away 3-2 I think. Huckerby goals, oggy penno save, loads of snow on the way home
Speedies_Chips
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Missed the Blackburn game as was re-cuperating from having 2 Wisdom teeth out. Result cheered me up.
The team then was frustrating. We had crap players like Rennie, Ally Pickering, Telfer, Marcus Hall and yet we had Dion and Nuddy. I loved Nuddy but not as much as the girls in Coventry did.
The team then was frustrating. We had crap players like Rennie, Ally Pickering, Telfer, Marcus Hall and yet we had Dion and Nuddy. I loved Nuddy but not as much as the girls in Coventry did.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Those were the days. England beat the colonists 5-1 in a rebellion grudge match, the Duke of Wellington got a hat-trick. Commentary was by carrier pigeon though, so I didn't find out about Blyth's save for weeks.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Hmmm the 1-0 defeat away at Bradford in 2003 takes some beating what a day....lost to a Windass goal & Steve Staunton hit the back of the top tier with a pen!
ovduk78
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Is that the one when Whelan was sent off? We won that 3-1, Huckerby was brilliant that day
Boxing Day 1999, Coventry City 3 Arsenal 2. Not only the best festive game I've ever seen, but the best game I've ever been to. The quality of (certainly) 2 of our goals...I've said it before and I'll say it again, I still cannot understand how on earth Robbie Keane managed to score that third goal.
Speedies_Chips
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If you are talking about Bobby Gould (sorry if I've got that wrong) but wasn't it a 5-1 defeat at QPR on Boxing Day that saw him off?
NortonSkyBlue
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A 4-2 win at Luton, a 4-0 win against Liverpool, a 5-1 defeat at Leicester with Steve Lynex taking us apart. Still 4th in the table at Christmas.
ovduk78
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Gould resigned after the 5-1 at QPR, wasn't a boxing day game though
NortonSkyBlue
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2nd spell
ovduk78
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Yes, meant to say that
The Great Eastern
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I was sitting in the main stand at Filbert St with a Lestah supporting mate for that game. Willie Thorn was sitting behind me & grinning at me just about the whole game... Bobby Gould did indeed start walking on the pitch to have words with the ref but changed his mind after after 10 or 15 yards and returned to the dugout. Lineker was on fire that game too. Our defence should have been thrown on a fire....
Londonccfcfan
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Was that not 3-1 ..Huckerby , Dublin and McAllister, in no particular order. I was there with my brother in law who’s a Leeds fan in the main stand there!
Londonccfcfan
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It’s funny how we can remover the premier league years like yesterday. But everything in between then and now we want to forget seems like a bad dream.