memories of highfield road (3 Viewers)

[Sharpie83]

What's your memories of highfield road?

I worked there for 6 months and I remember getting there really early and there was no one in the ground it was such a calm place it was like a temple

 

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[SkyBlueDickie]

Didn't go to too many games there but remember the rat run of roads on the way there. And how close you were to the pitch.

 

[Sharpie83]

I was right near the front. I was lucky tho I've played on the pitch when I was a kid so really has special memories for me

 

[Tank Top]

Standing on the Kop end, amongst 50,000.plus.
I thought my ribs were being Broken, genuinely scary.
Then push biked it Back to Exhall, Stoney stanton rd
Foleshill rd,Lockhurst lane, holbrook lane, wheelwright lane and so to bed, "Battered, but Joyful"
Tankie...

 

[Sharpie83]

Wow that's a good walk do u go in the bull and anchor?

 

[sky blue john]

Was always an hours + drive for me to come home to watch a game.
I would always be running late and would have to park the car right outside the stadium knowing i would have to stump up for a parking ticket fine.
This was before clamping and towing away !!!

 

[Sharpie83]

Nothing worse than running late for the football the rush and panic as you think ur going to miss something

 

[Mumford and Daughter]

forest in the simod cup , great night

 

[Sharpie83]

What is the Simod cup

 

[Sisu_Cockroaches]

Sneaking out at half time time to get a bottle of vodka for the boys, defacing season ticket vouchers to get in, strikers bar, the turnstiles, the binley oak, the brew and baker, missing the first 5 minutes, the atmosphere, the main stand, the sky blue stand, its endless.

 

[TheParsonsHose]

It was a smelly place, warm beer, Toilet q's, larger q's than the Ricoh for drinks/food, posts in the way of my view, small, rocked when 17k+ were in the stands, parked two miles away and walked in every game.........I loved it.:claping hands:

 

[sky blue john]

What is the Simod cup

There used to be a third cup competition I think it only lasted a few seasons I can't remember which divisions were eligible. My memory is going but wasn't it just for league teams who were not involved in Europe.

 

[WillieStanley]

Coventry 3, Man United 2.

I was only a lad at the time, and realised I'd missed my opportunity for a match day programme. A fella, witnessing my dismay, handed one to me, "That'll be a collectors item one day"

I thought "yeah right, we'll be beating them all the time now..."

There were countless more, but that was the one which came to my head instantly. That just highlighted the importance of supporting a football club like Coventry. We're all in this together.

That also affirmed my shock and disbelief years later (around 2003) when leaving the ground, wearing a City shirt, wearing baggy jeans with chains, scruffy long hair and big "skater" trainers. I was ridiculed from a distance with the taunts of "Goth" "Grebo" all those taunts of the era, looked behind me to see it was a group of young CITY fans!! Infact they followed us into The Gosford Arms, to further heckle... not realising that the majority in there (or a few at least) were bikers/punks/whatever-I-was-trying-to-achieves' who booted them out.

Being the sensitive guy I am, and a little naive back then... I couldn't believe that fans could turn on eachother... after a league win... based on how other fans choose to dress??!!!

 

[Sisu_Cockroaches]

The fat one in the ticket office took me to the side and made me shave myself. I did a Brazilian, i never forgave myself for that act.

 

[percy]

my wedding. great day

 

[WillieStanley]

my wedding. great day

That's why The Ricoh will always be special for me!!

 

[torchomatic]

Some photos I took at the last game

 

[torchomatic]

And some more

 

[torchomatic]

And some more

 

[torchomatic]

And some of the Ricoh being built

 

[torchomatic]

I have to say you look lovely in white, Wille.

That's why The Ricoh will always be special for me!!

 

[percy]

nice pics torchy especially the last one in your first post. got me welling up there pal

 

[sky_blue_up_north]

In the summer hols riding my bike from Holbrooks with my mates just to sit and the West End Stand been constructed. The fire that burnt the main stand down, distroying our trophy cabinet. Jimmy Hill riding his his horse around the touchline. On the pitch for the Wolves game, Gibbo outstanding. League Cup v West Ham 2-0 down at half time, came back to win 3-2, greatest game I saw there. Finally my very first game, the pitch still had the slope, with my Granddad in the main stand. He looks at me and says 'look at him, some player that Willie Humpries' as he skinned the full back again. Thanks Granddad from that day I was hooked, about 52/53 years ago. Ricoh we never have the atmosphere.

 

[ajsccfc]

Don't let these shots bum you out too much.

I've still got a little bit of salvaged sky blue brickwork from the same day.


During the summer holidays the fenced-off car park on the corner of Swan Lane and Thackhall Street tended to be open and you could basically walk in and through into the ground. The amount of times we just spent ages wandering the stands while I assume people were picking out their seats for the next season. Even got to have a sneaky penalty shoot-out one day too. There's no way we weren't seen, but didn't get told off once.

 

[Delmonte]

I lived in Nicholls Street, nice 50 yard walk on match days.

A walk to Rogers shop for a sausage batch 10 doors down and then into the ground.

 

[LastGarrison]

Sneaking out at half time time to get a bottle of vodka for the boys, defacing season ticket vouchers to get in, strikers bar, the turnstiles, the binley oak, the brew and baker, missing the first 5 minutes, the atmosphere, the main stand, the sky blue stand, its endless.

Many a time I had to "nip out to the car as I'd left my phone in it.." out the turnstiles in the main stand at the corner of the terrace. Straight up the alley way to the shop, half bottle of voddy, slipped down the front of my jeans and back in through the turnstiles.

 

[scroobiustom]

Shall we just rebuild it? got to be cheaper than buying the Ricoh?

 

[sky blue john]

Shall we just rebuild it? got to be cheaper than buying the Ricoh?

Good idea, come on then everyone start handing back the bricks. Maybe we should have an amnesty

 

[Sisu_Cockroaches]

That's why The Ricoh will always be special for me!!

Im sure i have rattled that bird lol

 

[classicfooty]

Im sure i have rattled that bird lol

me too.....................................

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Steaming cups of Bovril keeping me warm in the North Stand-to this day that drink is an essential part of my matchday experience

 

[Sharpie83]

I remember as a 15 year old watching Southampton with Dave Jones in charge in 99 and standing in the west terrace and starting a Dave Jones is a paedo chant and getting the whole west terrace chanting it at him made me laugh all day

 

[Johnnythespider]

Home, friendly stewards, stale urine, the west end shove, norwich 5-4 ( the only time i went to a match with my dad ), i could go on & on

 

[Sharpie83]

Bovril stinks I did a stint when I was 16 working in the food area and hated serving it

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Bovril's the drink of champions and I won't have a word against it.