First city game (5 Viewers)

[Skyblueweeman]

Wow, that was my first game too. Taken up to Highfield Rd by a friend of my Mum who then scavenged a couple of comps from George Curtis. Sat in the Main Stand, it was an amazing atmosphere for a 12 yr old to comprehend.

Coventry City v Birmingham City, 15 November 1980

11v11 football match report for Coventry City v Birmingham City, League Division One 1981 , 15 November 1980

www.11v11.com

Second game was the Charity Shield

And strangely, third was Millwall at home in 1988. But that third game hooked me enough that I got a season ticket and watched Cov home and away for the next 15 years. Side note: I actually came out of Highfield Rd richer than I went in due to all the coins Millwall tossed at us

Coventry City v Millwall, 15 October 1988

11v11 football match report for Coventry City v Millwall, League Division One 1989 , 15 October 1988

www.11v11.com

Ha ha, that 3rd Millwall game for you was my first!

 

---

[albatross]

13th March 1976. Coventry 1 Arsenal 1. Remember Alan Green scoring.

Stood on the Kop, would have been about 9.

 

[Roger Mellie]

The pain started here for me. 4-0 win. Wallace hat trick. My 9 year old self thought it was going to be like this every week

 

[1066]

My dad used to work in Coventry but moved down to East Sussex after I was born, every summer we would go to Coventry for our holiday , followed by a trip to Blackburn and if I was really lucky a day out to a Colwyn bay nunnery to see my aunt. My dad's best friend up there was a season ticket holder and he took me along to see Coventry v Spurs in 1984.
It finished 1 1 but all I can remember now is that Peter Barnes made some good runs and there was fighting between the fans in one of the stands.

 

[Johhny Blue]

View attachment 29923The pain started here for me. 4-0 win. Wallace hat trick. My 9 year old self thought it was going to be like this every week

Pain started for me that day too. It was my wedding day. But I was there to see Wallace’s hat trick

 

[Johhny Blue]

Don’t remember the exact game but it would be ‘65 or ‘66. I do remember joining in with the “you’re a bastard” chants and being surprised that dad wasn’t stopping me

 

[Como]

I am always impressed how people can remember details from a young age, I would have been 6 or 7, my Grandad took me and it was when Jimmy Hill came on board, did we go before Jimmy Hill, no idea. Obviously my Grandad is not around to ask. I know we always went on the Kop, and it was a long way up to the top for the toilets.. Pretty sure I never sat down until Highfield Road became an all seater.

 

[CanuckSkyBlue]

Pretty sure it was when we beat Blackburn 5-0 in 95’

Remember more when I asked my dad to stop bringing me after getting pumped during the Stern John era

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Wife’s first game was losing 1-0 to Shrewsbury in 2013, she for some reason kept wanting to go, wrote her Masters dissertation on CCFC playing in Northampton and now is completely hooked.

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

1-0 win I think v Souhampton around 1979/1980. I was 8 and my dad bought the cheap standing tickets in area below the wooden exec boxes in front of main stand. Absolutely crap view.