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Totally unfair on the lad. Football is a ruthless professional business with very little sentiment. He was good enough to get a contract, end of. Everyone makes mistakes and Aaron has probably suffered by comparison to a cup winning dad rather than exploiting it. Header yesterday and flick on...

I thought it was fantastic to see him, Ivor and Lee walking up to the scoreboard and joining in. Great for fans young and old and not something you see every week. So will Wednesday fans now be slating him for doing that? Some might. Top man.

Well things look a lot brighter tonight than they did before the last three home games!

Plus we need to throw in the stadium fiasco, and the train station! I think we should be in a Champions League all on our own.

Remember Beckhams penalty against Argentina, the redemption one? He put it about a foot to the side of the keeper but hit it so hard I don't think the keeper even saw it let alone had the time to react. Keepers must love it when the taker strokes it because unless it's right inside the post...

It was there though, wasn't it? Within their grasp. A couple of years ago I'd had enough, the hostage situation at Northampton was the last straw so I started going to the rugby (Butts!). I went a couple of times at the start of the season and what with the buzz, the queues at the ticket office...

Be interesting to see a breakdown of contributors level of optimism by age range! I may be being a tad hasty here but I'd be surprised if many of the old school have any hope left.

It wasn't at one pint, that was earlier. Highlight of the night by the way was the lad who'd only had two pints.

Noticed at one pint their goalkeeper bowled it out to the right back who immediately played it forward and they were in our half on the attack. That's the way to do it. What we do, seemingly automatically, is give it to someone with his back to the play on the edge of our box and surrounded by...

You might have gathered this but I mainly blame the players. Clearly Mowbray has a wealth of football knowledge and managerial experience at high level. He said last night that the players basically did the exact opposite of the team talk in the first 20 minutes. I'd give him another year.

Reminds me of hearing a couple on a TV quiz show a few years back. Smug pair. Said they were both 'Gooners' and had met through Arsenal and been through 'thick and thin' since.

Ball even!

What was so depressing last night was the sheer inevitability of it. For quite a few games now they have looked as though they are playing a practice match when the opposition look as if they care. They are a spent force, no passion, no energy, no fight, no leadership. Concede a goal now and...

I think you also have to take into account the relative size of the club. Coventry is usually accounted the 8th or 9th biggest city in England and is in the middle of Warwickshire with a number of large towns. It only has one club. CCFC arrived in the top tier with huge momentum and very big...

Don't remember too many games where the opposition should have been several goals up but we won. Happens all too frequently against us. I know fans have blinkers but I honestly can't remember us winning many matches whilst being battered. Another reason why supporting Cov is so challenging.

I was introduced to the faith by my old man in 1969, so missed the Jimmy Hill years. Since then saw us come 6th and get into Europe and win the cup. Apart from that we came 7th with Ferguson and Wallace banging them in and 10th under Strachan despite not winning away once all season. I...

How things change. A couple of days ago I drove through the tight, terraced streets at the back of the old West End (never, for me 'West Terrace'), scene of many a running battle in the early 70s. How I loved the West End then, the packed Cov mob behind the goal, the away fans a gangway away...

I have often wondered why managers don't challenge the fines imposed on them for speaking their minds. They are duty bound to do press interviews while the blood is hot then get totally disproportionate and eye watering fines for doing just that, and often just for telling the truth about...

All about proportionality, big differences in nature of tackles and big differences in pitch invasions. Fan runs on is automatically committing an offence and risks a ban but good natured celebration of a goal is a world away from kicking off. If the fan tried to take a selfie the goalkeeper...

So, as Duncan Bannatyne might say, here's where I am. I'm 53. I first went to HR in 1969 with my Dad, whose last game before he succumbed to cancer was the goodbye to HR. Was a season ticket holder for years. I have a 14 year old lad who at first supported Arsenal. I let him but quietly ensured...