Been supporting 33 years. This crop of players we have are terrible. . Really bad. Like 11 kevin kyles or the likes playing together. We knew losing westwood gun and turner would have a effect on us didnt we. It has as we all thought made us a lot worse. Watching the team try to play football is embarrassing mostly and at time pathetic. Traveling and spending money on this group of no marks is too much at times. Seeing the strawberry cheek talent scout pretending to be a manager is at times hilarious and infuriating. Lets face facts you dont get a butcher to make you a cake. Watching and being with the most deluded fans in the league is sometimes boring and detached from the game it self. . Expecting to lose to the likes of doncaster is now common place. we are the ultimate lovers of being underdogs. But You gotta like thorn he is a tryer. So are the team they are tryers. Lets just get behind them all. When did we lose our sense of humour city ? So what if we are shit ! Thorn for england
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Agreed! Doncaster was a really good laugh yesterday, we didn't lose, Sammy bags a cracker, the true Sky Blues sang from minute one to ninety and one Doncaster kid in a green hoodie had questions to ask of his mum last night.
Right now it is what it is, I'm just going to make light and not live a miserable existence because a team I have no power over is well below what I hope for!!!
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Right now it is what it is, I'm just going to make light and not live a miserable existence because a team I have no power over is well below what I hope for!!!
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SkyBluesAndy
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Yes, this is what being a football fan is all about, if you just let it make you miserable then what's the point?
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southern_comfort
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and if we do find a hidden gem, enjoy it for the short period they remain at our club 
Essexrobbie
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I've been following, supporting (late 80's to late 90's) and now following again Cov for the last 43 years. My Dad first introduced me to the delights of football watching Southend United in the old division 4 around 1967 when I was about 10, but as all my peers who were either following Man U, Chelsea, West Ham or Spurs, I didn't like to admit .it . Like most youngsters I collected football cards which you stick in an album, and whist all the other clubs wore boring red, white or blue shirts with a splattering of claret from the likes of West Ham and the vile, there was one club who's pictures stood out from all the others in their brilliant sky blue. So from that day hence I fell in love with the Cov. I didn't know where you were situated, in the country or the league, so was a bit dismayed when I checked and there you were in 1968 around the bottom. In those days we were able to wear our own kits during the games lessons so I got my Mum to dye an all white kit sky blue and sow some dark blue braid(cut from my sisters navy knickers) around the collar and cuffs. I thought I looked the business, and even got given a sky blues holdle bag which I took to school every day. As you can imagine the p**s take was relentless,even from my teachers and even led to fights, but I just saw it as character building and made me all the more proud in supporting my team. I didn't get to see them until the middle seventy's when a mate of mine who follow Tottenham drove up to Highfield road with me. Unfortunately we lost but it was the same mate who gave me a ticket for the final in 87, as he had another offer in the posh seats. On getting to Wembley I first approached a tout to swap my Tottenham ticket for a Cov end one, but no doing. By pure chance whist hanging around outside I heard a couple of lads asking if anybody would swap for the other way. We swapped and so I headed inside the ground for what would be the most memorable four hours of my life. I stood right at the very back , top tier directly behind the goal and was mesmerized by the colour and noise of the fans. I'd been to see England play many times at Wembley but nothing prepared me for the atmosphere and noise generated that afternoon. Even after going a goal down the spirits of the sky blue army wasn't dampened and as we sang out ...Score in a minute...we're going to score in a minute. Our prediction was answered as Dave Bennett slotted home the equalizer to send us mental. I didn't know anybody there but found myself jumping about in the arms of a complete stranger. I guess my point to all this is, I consider myself lucky to have experienced that one afternoon when my team was the best in the land, and would probably still be inside the ground celebrating if they had let us. You younger guys on here have never experienced that feeling of success because the Cov have never won anything since to get excited about... but be patient you will, and one day you will be able to tell your kids or Grand kids that you were there the day the sky blues turned good again, because every dog has its day and the Sky blues are long over due for one. It may be we have to drop a division to rise again, god knows enough teams have done it and as long as you embrace the success of promotion and celebrate it even if its only from div 1, then the Cov fans will remain the best in the land, for its easy to sing when your winning, not when starved of success. PS I've made my eldest son a Cov fan too, although son number two accompanies me to see Southend on occasion.
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smileycov,
Believe it was 921 CCFC fans there at Donnie.
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Believe it was 921 CCFC fans there at Donnie.
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Houchens Head
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Great post EssexRobbie! I am also an old fart that's supported the City for nigh on 50 years (well, since 1963). I also have great memories of some fantastic games over the years. It's a great shame some of our younger fans on here don't remember them. No disrespect to our younger fans - if you weren't born then, you wouldn't know about them. It's really hard to explain to some of them what the great days were like, watching players like the Hutch, Bob Wesson, Bill Glazier, Bobby McDonald, Willie Carr, Ferguson, Wallace, Machin Rees.... the list is endless. I'm sure we'll get those days back. Whether it will be in my lifetime or not, I don't know. I truly hope so.
WillieStanley
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EssexRobbie... Best post on a football forum... EVER!!! I'm not too sure where I fit in with the "older/younger" fan category. I have vague memories of 87, I was 4 years old, but my word the 90s were a great time to support the Sky Blues. That's why I keep coming back. That's why I'm proud to be Cov and that's why its a bit emotional reading well put together and exceedingly well timed posts such as yours. Hats off!
Sky Blue Sheepy
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Essex you've put a smile on my face! My first game was the penultimate game at Highfield Road 2-2 vs Wolves, 94th minute goal... I've never seen Cov in the Prem :-( But I'll support 'em as long as the club exists! PUSB
SkyBluesAndy
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To be fair, I'm 21 and compared to what I watch every week now I am very grateful to have seen us through the mid to late 90's with Keano, Hadji, Chippo, Huckers, Dublin, Thommo, Froggatt, Whelan, McCallister etc! I like to brag about the team we had then whenever I get stick for being a sky blues fan as it's all I have to cling onto! Had a season ticket for a few seasons starting from probably when I was about 7 and it is the teams we put out in that time period that got me hooked forever.
operationprem
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Ha ha that lad in the green got loads in the second half, enjoyed it yesterday good atmosphere
Essexrobbie
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Thanks for you great replies lads as I wasn't sure how split loyalties would go down on here. Following and supporting both Southend and the Cov I have come to appreciate similarities in both clubs. Both are broke and staring administration in the face every week. Cov sold their lovely traditional ground at Highfield road and have moved to a stadium which many have said is too big at the moment and devoid of atmosphere, something that could never be said about Highfield. Southend have sold their rickety old ground holding a max 11,000 to Sainsburys and await work to start on a new soleless bowl of a stadium holding 25,000, and with gates averaging around 5,500 at the moment we will be sure to hear a pin drop as we rattle around inside it. But probably the warmest comparison for me is the support. The Sky Blues will always sing to the end even in the most dour diversity which is also a trait shared by the shrimpers of Southend . Nearly 3,000 went to Southampton a few years back on their last game of the season when they were thumped and relegated but still sang the whole game and finished by doing a conga around the ground afterwards. So I say whatever the skyblues position is at the end of April....go and be proud and do the conga, because one day you will be doing the conga in celebration, and when the good times come back whatever division Cov are in, I'm sure the fans will flock back in their thousands and you will finally see the true potential of a full rocking Ricoh Arena.
Houchens Head
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Essexrobbie: just going on from my previous post, I too always look for Southend results. Know the area like the back of me 'and! The reason being, I lived in Wickford during the early 1950's and again (for about a year) in 1969. My old man worked at Keil Kraft and although he was born and raised in Cov, (he lived in Wickford until he passed away in 1971) he was a Southend fan. I always have great memories of the area, especially going into Southend to the Kursaal fairground. Happy days indeed! (My niece still lives in Basildon)
cloughie
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The best post on here for a good while and brought back the memory of that great day ( I am about the same age as you)
Get in the changing room on that last day of the season when we need a result to stay up and give the players another uplifting version of this
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Essexrobbie
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I work in Basildon HH, driving for Argos. During the ninety's I worked in the city and was earning good money so I could afford to drive up to Cov on a regular basis. I used to do it in 2 hrs door to door, and my friends thought I was crazy , but I saw some cracking games and on our day we could beat anybody. One of my most memorable games was against Arsenal which ended 2.2 and Willow if I remember got set off for an alleged trip on Bercamp. It was one of the few occasions I didn't take my young son as I was picking up his Cov curtains and wall paper he was getting for a surprise at Christmas . Unfortunately it was one of the best games I'd seen at Highfield Road and he was furious when he discovered I had gone without him.
If that's your picture on your avatar HH.... I'd lay off the beers for a while mate.
Houchens Head
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If that's your picture on your avatar HH.... I'd lay off the beers for a while mate.
'tis me, but in the spirit of Halloween (for the many grandkids I have!
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Disorganised1
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That was a dive - I remember the game. Willow couldn't even catch him.
I work in Basildon HH, driving for Argos. During the ninety's I worked in the city and was earning good money so I could afford to drive up to Cov on a regular basis. I used to do it in 2 hrs door to door, and my friends thought I was crazy , but I saw some cracking games and on our day we could beat anybody. One of my most memorable games was against Arsenal which ended 2.2 and Willow if I remember got set off for an alleged trip on Bercamp. It was one of the few occasions I didn't take my young son as I was picking up his Cov curtains and wall paper he was getting for a surprise at Christmas . Unfortunately it was one of the best games I'd seen at Highfield Road and he was furious when he discovered I had gone without him.
If that's your picture on your avatar HH.... I'd lay off the beers for a while mate.
Nonleagueherewecome
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Yep, he did the old trick of kicking his own leg to make it look like Willo had made contact with him. A true moment of bonding for me and my Dad-that was the most angry we've ever been together (at least, other than at each other..)! Absolutely loathed Bergkamp from that moment on and I can never bear it whenever SKY or MOTD harp on about what a legend he is..he was a cheat!