Match Thread Coventry City v Manchester United - FA Cup Semi-Final (3 Viewers)

[Ccfcisparks]

Best game I’ve ever been to in all honesty. The atmosphere when the penalty was won was incredible.

dream like when Torp scored the disallowed goal. Just seen it back, it’s disappointing but by the book Wright was offside.

60 minutes onwards we were superb. All 3 subs were fantastic and should finish the season in the starting XI. Tavares caused chaos.

Great turn out by the SBA and that day will remain within me forever.

 

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[HadjiChippo]

Thought I was ready to watch the highlights, but I wasn't

I keep being tempted to put the whole game recording on (starting 65 minutes in of course)

 

[shmmeee]

Best game I’ve ever been to in all honesty. The atmosphere when the penalty was won was incredible.

dream like when Torp scored the disallowed goal. Just seen it back, it’s disappointing but by the book Wright was offside.

60 minutes onwards we were superb. All 3 subs were fantastic and should finish the season in the starting XI. Tavares caused chaos.

Great turn out by the SBA and that day will remain within me forever.

He wasn’t offside

 

[Martin180]

How good was Torps penalty

 

[skybluegod]

Sorry to disappoint you but I really don't think Eccles is going to be replaced any time soon.

Why would I be disappointed, I literally said I see him as part of the team different games suit different players

 

[skybluegod]

I’m genuinely excited and hopeful that we start next season with Sheaf , Eccles , Torp and a new signing to compete for the two central midfield roles

Depending on the quality of number 10's available a flat 3 could work well for us especially in certain games. Depends what MR can get in I guess

 

[Martin180]

Depending on the quality of number 10's available a flat 3 could work well for us especially in certain games. Depends what MR can get in I guess

Saddlebrains says we are after exciting players , so let’s see

 

[shepardo01]

 

[Deleted member 9744]

Best game I’ve ever been to in all honesty. The atmosphere when the penalty was won was incredible.

dream like when Torp scored the disallowed goal. Just seen it back, it’s disappointing but by the book Wright was offside.

60 minutes onwards we were superb. All 3 subs were fantastic and should finish the season in the starting XI. Tavares caused chaos.

Great turn out by the SBA and that day will remain within me forever.

There were five subs BTW. All were very good and I include Godden in that.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

There were five subs BTW. All were very good and I include Godden in that.

Da Silva was good. Godden had a few knockdowns but very good is a stretch

 

[HadjiChippo]

Skipping through the game, just wondering what Tats would’ve done to this Utd side down that right hand side. They were so fragile when we changed things up.

Tavares terrorised them, Tats would’ve tortured this lot.

 

[messiahrobins]

Best game I’ve ever been to in all honesty. The atmosphere when the penalty was won was incredible.

dream like when Torp scored the disallowed goal. Just seen it back, it’s disappointing but by the book Wright was offside.

60 minutes onwards we were superb. All 3 subs were fantastic and should finish the season in the starting XI. Tavares caused chaos.

Great turn out by the SBA and that day will remain within me forever.

87 cup final beats it as it was the final.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

87 cup final beats it as it was the final.

I wasn’t alive

 

[messiahrobins]

I wasn’t alive

Ok that probably explains your opinion then.

 

[Cantona7]

Well done Cov.

I only came here for this game and I said then that we can be ridiculous and sublime in the space of 90 minutes.

I also said that it would be competitive.

This fucking club I love will be the death of me.

Anyway, I wish you all the best and hope that I haven't been too much of a twat on here despite the love I have for what has always been my soul-destroying United since the age of 6.

I wish you all the best.

 

[Viktor17]

Still in daze.

proud, sad, heartbroken, buzzing, confused.

never ever seen anything like it. When this team properly start believe in themselves anything is possible.

unbelievable.

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Not sure if any family members or friends of the guy but one older guy was taken out ill around block 134, just hope he is ok, the staff and crew at Wembley seemed to be doing a good job.

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I wasn’t alive

Just thought the same as I was the same age at 87 as my son was for this game

 

[Macca]

I think the VAR decision has distracted us from the fact we should have got at them earlier instead of sitting back and admiring them for 2/3 of the game

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I think the VAR decision has distracted us from the fact we should have got at them earlier instead of sitting back and admiring them for 2/3 of the game

Nah it’s all part of the drama and robins explained the plan

 

[CCFCSteve]

I think the VAR decision has distracted us from the fact we should have got at them earlier instead of sitting back and admiring them for 2/3 of the game

Yep, for all Robins brilliance (and he is a truly amazing manager for us) he set us up wrong. We were all saying it even before the first goal and then again at half time. Their weakness was the defence/defensive midfield area, you can get at them and cause problems as we proved second half, but we just showed too much respect

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Yep, for all Robins brilliance (and he is a truly amazing manager for us) he set us up wrong. We were all saying it even before the first goal and then again at half time. Their weakness was the defence/defensive midfield area, you can get at them and cause problems as we proved second half, but we just showed too much respect

Hindsight
Foresight is much harder

 

[CCFCSteve]

Not sure if this has been posted already (sorry if so)

Victor Torp’s torment: the greatest ever FA Cup moment that wasn’t

Coventry fans now young will grow old still remembering those 90 seconds of unimaginable bliss at the end of extra time

www.theguardian.com

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Not sure if this has been posted already (sorry if so)

Victor Torp’s torment: the greatest ever FA Cup moment that wasn’t

Coventry fans now young will grow old still remembering those 90 seconds of unimaginable bliss at the end of extra time

www.theguardian.com

Wow
Beautiful poetry and emotion. Captures it perfectly
Grief is the price you pay for love. Crushed hope is the price you pay for having the audacity to nurture hope in the first place. This is the beauty of the FA Cup: it means nothing, right up until the point when it suddenly means everything.

 

[CCFCSteve]

Hindsight
Foresight is much harder

It was as soon as we set up though Pete, even before the game most of us were saying if we sit deep their better players will cause us problems so we may as well have a good go at their weaknesses. We dominated Wolves by playing a four. Most Prem clubs don’t like it when you get at them. We let them come onto us first half due to the five, Lati kept having to play the ball out of defence left footed and midfield was getting overrun so we surrendered possession easily.

I don’t want to detract from what was one of our most amazing performances for 60 mins of the game, where the team and manager did us so proud, but that’s how I saw it

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Tavares is an unsung hero for that game he allowed MvE time and space to overlap and also put a good ball in for our first, if he’s not a winger he can most certainly become one

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Tavares is an unsung hero for that game he allowed MvE time and space to overlap and also put a good ball in for our first, if he’s not a winger he can most certainly become one

Felt gutted for him having to come off

 

[PUSB-We_are_going_up]

Felt gutted for him having to come off

Agreed he really changed it and I think if you had to choose to keep or sell one of Godden and Tavares you wouldn’t be selling Tav, I think there is something there

 

[CovInEssex]

Onside

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

He wasn’t offside

He was matey
Technically but it has to be the moment that causes the fa to do something different with offsides it’s wrong headed for that to be given when it’s so close and it can’t be accurately checked

 

[David O'Day]

In the cold light of day them subbing Mainoo did change the game massively on our favour.

 

[Tommo1993]

The day someone breaks Antony’s legs can’t come soon enough. Fucking little prick

 

[Great_Expectations]

Not read the thread yet, but just watched the coverage from when we scored our first.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned but the commentators are absolutely shite. Barely any credit given to us, especially Lee Dixon. I met him once when I was playing football at a decent level and he was an absolute wanker to an 11 year old kid (me) and hearing his comms from yesterday has confirmed it.

 

[shmmeee]

He was matey
Technically but it has to be the moment that causes the fa to do something different with offsides it’s wrong headed for that to be given when it’s so close and it can’t be accurately checked

No he wasn’t. He was level. The VAR lines showed that. I know you’re the referees union Pete but it was a mistake. I have eyes.

 

[Tommo1993]

He was matey
Technically but it has to be the moment that causes the fa to do something different with offsides it’s wrong headed for that to be given when it’s so close and it can’t be accurately checked

If Torp’s wrongly denied winner was checked to death such as Simms’ goal against Wolves, we’d have been cup finalists. He was on.