skyblueinBaku
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The Checkatrade Final win. MR said it was that game that started the Sky Blues' revival.
Most memorable for me, personally; 3-1 over Wolves, stood in the Covered End, among a crowd of 51,455.
5-4 over Norwich.
And, 2-1 over Bayern (only slightly marred by the 6-1 humping at their midden).
I had to look this up as i have absolutely no recollection of Notts C being in the top flight at that time, weird cause i normally have a pretty decent memory of these things. Saying that after looking it up Luton would of gone down on goal difference -33 to our -9Bit of a tangent but our most important game which we didn't play in... Notts County 2 Luton 1 1992- we'd made a total balls of saving ourselves at Villa Park & would have failed to make the inaugural Premier League season had Luton won.
Most important games in history?
Permission to add 2-2 against Bristol Thursday Evening? 1976/77?Robbie Keane's debut, ok so it's not in the top 5, but an unforgettable game nonetheless.
Ndlovu's hattrick at Anfield.
City 5 Norwich 4
City 5 Forest 4
Sunderland 4 City 5
Arsenal 0 City 3 (Qinn hattrick)
Loads of great games over the years.
City 3 Bristol 2 (10 men score 3 goals in second half to come from behind to win)
Portsmouth 3 City 3 (9 men come from behind to salvage a point)
Man City 1 City 3 F.A. cup rd4 (Peter Bodak scored "that goal"
City 5 Liverpool 1
City vs Everton 1970, the Donkey Kick game.
City 4 Everton 1 (thrash the champions on the last day of the season to stay up!
Fuckin av it !!! )
The Norwich game was full of penalties, disallowed goals, and atmosphere on a Boxing Day. The League Cup game against West Ham was special as well.Got a like for the use of midden (had to google for the definition, so thanks for exercising my brain!)
Couple slightly off at a tangent:
1979 Bobby Robson said Mick Ferguson wasn't worth the money we wanted; Cov 4 Ipswich 1 Fergy scored all 4 Blast From The Past: On This Day 1979 – Ferguson 4 Ipswich 1 -Fab. Fergie’s Four Irritates Ipswich : Coventry City Former Players Association || CCFPA
1980 League cup 5th round Watford 2 Cov 2 never seen so many City fans in an away ground
Completely understand that but arguably the Notts C game was the greater catalyst for me.Disagree. While the playoff semi was an amazing game, I think it's the Checkatrade final that put Robins stamp on the team and with 40,000+ Cov fans present, showed the management and SiSu that the team could have the support and backing they hoped for. That one game started the snowball, the playoffs increased our momentum.
CCFC 4 Everton 1 '85
CCFC 2 QPR 1 '86
CCFC 2 Norwich 1 '84
All more important than '97 in my opinion, at that time in the late 90s I think we'd have probably come straight back up. If we'd have gone down in the mid 80s that would have been much harder to bounce back from- no money, dwindling crowds, general apathy.
Bit of a tangent but our most important game which we didn't play in... Notts County 2 Luton 1 1992- we'd made a total balls of saving ourselves at Villa Park & would have failed to make the inaugural Premier League season had Luton won.
Definitely important though. Potentially no league club without it, but also meant the main benefactor to the club was nobbled going forward.Ah, the Bury Affair. I still lose sleep over that one.
Bit of a tangent but our most important game which we didn't play in... Notts County 2 Luton 1 1992- we'd made a total balls of saving ourselves at Villa Park & would have failed to make the inaugural Premier League season had Luton won.
Heh well after I went to the trouble of uploading the vid years ago figured I might as well get two extra viewsDid you really have to do that ? After all this time, you still go and stir up so many confused memories ??
Yes, I was in the away end for that game. Yes, I had my radio tuned into Radio 5. And yes, I was one of several hundred who were telling supporters around me if we were safe or not. And it did not help that the bleepers in the Holte End kept cheering so we kept panicking that Luton had scored.
Never forgive them for putting us through that, the bleeping bleepers
Heh well after I went to the trouble of uploading the vid years ago figured I might as well get two extra views
That whole day was horrible and was really flat afterwards as even though we'd stayed up, we'd played so poorly we barely deserved it (similar to the last day 0-0 v Leeds a few years later, though I was more preoccupied with not getting a slap on the pitch after that one).
And yes, if they'd actually been a Luton goal for each of the Villa end cheers, they'd have scored about 10!
However was a terrible and really negative manager. As you say it was embarrassing to stay up playing like that, but I was so glad we did. I remember the atmosphere was really vitriolic as well, and until Notts County it seemed like a large group of Cov fans were intending to invade the pitch to hold up the game. One of the ugliest atmospheres I can remember at a Cov match.You’re right, there was nothing to celebrate at all, it was an embarrassing way to stay up. Remember Don Howe not even making it to the dugout before we were one down, then after talking like he’d saved us from relegation. We had fans everywhere that day, some ended up running across the pitch out of the Holte after being sussed out- the entire day felt horrible.
There was a testimonial the following day, I think it may have been for Sillett? Beforehand Jim Twyneham announced us as ‘founder members of the Premier League’ and even that didn’t get much recognition- we didn’t deserve it and everyone knew it, plus capitulating at Villa was humiliating as well. It was a terrible end to the worst top flight season I remember (aside from when we went down obviously)
Bit of a tangent but our most important game which we didn't play in... Notts County 2 Luton 1 1992- we'd made a total balls of saving ourselves at Villa Park & would have failed to make the inaugural Premier League season had Luton won.
I don't get why the argument is Checkatrade or Notts County when it should be Checkatrade or Exeter.
Notts County away was brilliant but lose the final and we're still in L2.
I see it as being the game that gave us the confidence/belief that we could do it, especially after the first leg and then having to go and do it away…and losing there the month or two before then.I don't get why the argument is Checkatrade or Notts County when it should be Checkatrade or Exeter.
Notts County away was brilliant but lose the final and we're still in L2.
So many turning points in that game too, and it could so easily have gone against us.I see it as being the game that gave us the confidence/belief that we could do it, especially after the first leg and then having to go and do it away…and losing there the month or two before then.
So many turning points in that game too, and it could so easily have gone against us.
We were lucky to be honest. Some of those decisions could have gone against usWhich is true for the second half, but we were all over them in the first and should have had the game out of sight before they scored.
We were lucky to be honest. Some of those decisions could have gone against us
Never has a 0-0 felt like a victory.Yes!
One of the most memorable bits was Dion’s leg extending from nowhere to clear off the line…had looked a certain goal.
We were down the front behind the goal and felt really close to the action. I loved Highbury.
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