First Ever Cov Match You Saw ? (4 Viewers)

[fernandopartridge]

First game was Everton at Highfield Road in 1995, aged 9.

A drab affair but still vividly remember it. I'd been a fan for a while but our family budget didn't stretch to match tickets - until one weekend when I broke my arm in the garden playing football with my Grandad. I was given a lift home, expecting to be given a good talking to, and there were a pair of tickets on the table waiting for me when I got home!

It was a Sunday game and was 0-0, as many games back then against Everton seemed to be...but oh boy the atmosphere was electric! Was hooked from then onwards.

From memory Gordon Strachan, Ndlovu and Dublin were playing....and I'm sure Filan was in goal instead of Oggy that day too.


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That was the last game of the season. We were safe and Everton in the cup final so pretty pedestrian stuff.

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[Rusty Trombone]

First home game as a Cov fan was 1985 v Man City, drew 1:1. I had been to other Cov games v Liverpool as I classed myself as a Liverpool fan before seeing the light.

First away game with friends rather than responsible adults was midweek (I think) v Watford, on Harry Shaw booked with my supporters membership card, I picked Watford as I genuinely thought it would be near Watford Gap and therefore I wouldn't have to be on the coach too long.

For a brief time I also thought that Luton was my nearest team as I lived near Kenilworth Rd. I fear I'm revealing too much here.

 

[fernandopartridge]

First home game as a Cov fan was 1985 v Man City, drew 1:1. I had been to other Cov games v Liverpool as I classed myself as a Liverpool fan before seeing the light.

First away game with friends rather than responsible adults was midweek (I think) v Watford, on Harry Shaw booked with my supporters membership card, I picked Watford as I genuinely thought it would be near Watford Gap and therefore I wouldn't have to be on the coach too long.

For a brief time I also thought that Luton was my nearest team as I lived near Kenilworth Rd. I fear I'm revealing too much here.

made me chuckle

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[Rusty Trombone]

Anyone remember the pre-season friendly that we played Benfica at Highfield Rd? It was 10th August 1996. Can't remember the score. I'd not long met the current 'er indoors and was trying to impress her with footie. Don't know what went wrong though. She now has as much interest in footie as I have in synchronised swimming!

Yeah we got battered, I know they scored 7, and from a quick check it appears we scored 2. There's a video of some of the goals on here, not sure how to link the thread though.

 

[SkyblueBazza]

I was there that day too. And Harold Wilson was sat in the stands. He was a fan of them.

Are you sure? Was HE sure? I mean he could have been easily confused & actually supported Sheffield Wednesday as they also play in Blue & White vertices stripes. It's an easy mistake to make for any politician - ask David Cameron

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[SkyblueBazza]

My dad was a staunch Labour voter so loved that Wilson was there. Then again he said Blair would be a good leader so less said on that !

Respect! He was a good leader...it was where he led us & how he convinced us that is the issue

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[SkyblueBazza]

I was remembering playing Ajax, but didn't go - that could well be it!

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BBC SPORT | COVENTRY CITY | Ajax clean up at Coventry

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[woody11462]

Can't recall the year but it was a home win, 3-0 against Oxford and John Aldridge was playing for Oxford at the time. Can't remember anything from the game itself.

 

[Skybluebrummie]

10 yrs old in 1979 .Villa v Cov at Villa park. My brother took me to see them, 1-1 Garry Thompson scored,
Best thing was my Villa supporting bro swiped a Cov hat for me off one of the Cov fans!
If i remember rightly it pissed down all night.

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

The first game I recall was versus Fulham in October 1967 and it was a bottom of the table clash at HR and we got stuffed 3-0.
I went to a couple of games in the run in in division 2 but have no memory of either.
What I do remember as clear as day is taking a milk crate and being at the front of the lkop to the right side of the goal and being very sad about losing and being impressed with Fulham, thinking they must be the greatest team in the world!
Later on in the season my sister took me to the return fixture at about to be relegated Fulham and I vividly remember the crowd turning its back on the game to watch the boat race go by on the Thames. That game was 1-1.
My first of 5 away games that season was also our first away win in the top league V West Brom at the Hawthorns with a Ronnie Rees goal and he joined them soon after. We played in all red and I asked my dad why Coventry were not playing?

 

[singers_pore]

Can't recall the year but it was a home win, 3-0 against Oxford and John Aldridge was playing for Oxford at the time. Can't remember anything from the game itself.

Sounds like 87

 

[JulianDarbyFTW]

First game I saw was a 0-0 against Charlton. I seem to recall the ticket cost 3 quid, and I thought it was expensive.
The first game I can actually remember is the 3-4 defeat against Middlesboro with Speedie getting a hat-trick (and climbing on the fencing to celebrate iirc) and Bernie Slaven doing likewise for Boro. My memory isn't what it was though, so I may have some of that wrong!

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

Dec 1970 1-0 win over Stoke (with Gordon Banks in goal). For years I thought our goal was a penalty but apparently not.

Coventry City v Stoke City, 05 December 1970

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

BBC SPORT | COVENTRY CITY | Ajax clean up at Coventry

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Got to be the only ccfc game in history where two players called Cedric got on the scoresheet.

 

[LastGarrison]

Mid 80's against Liverpool sat upstairs in the West Stand.

My Old Man took me and my then Liverpool supporting brother. Pretty sure we lost 2-1 but just had a quick google and can't find anything like that!

Didn't go to another game until we beat Banik Ostrava in a friendly with the now legendary Tony Dobson goal from the half way line.

 

[christonabike]

1980 or 1981 V Southampton lost 1-0. Sat in the main stand and every time I smell a cigar I always think of then. (Some toff sat behind me puffing away for 90 mins lol!) My dad took me many times and eventually he worked as a steward when he retired and then got a season ticket with me for the last 14 years. Strangely enough we were at the Ricoh a few days before he had a massive heart attack and passed away a week later.

 

[joemercersaces]

March 1969, six years old. Burnley at home. Main stand. Had been nagging the old man to take me for ages. He'd been going without me and I'd devour the programmes afterwards (not literally!). Never forget the awe inspired by the crowds approaching the ground and inside and that first glimpse of the green turf. Great all sky blue kit and a love affair sparked that endures 48 years later. We won.

 

[Bernie Rhodes Nose]

1983 - Arsenal away. We lost 2-1 but Stevie Hunt was the player that caught my eye. (My first football match was 1973 Chelsea V Newcastle (1-0 Ian Hutchinson got the winner for Chelsea).

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Yes we signed Boateng from them after that. Sure we played Ajax or somebody in a mid season friendly in the Strachan era as well. Maybe in January?

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Bayern Munich I recall beating us 4-2

 

[Malaka]

I have been trying to find this out. I remember it was against Stoke City reserves and I think we we won 2nil or 2-1. I wrote to Jim Brown and this was his response

City's reserves didn't start playing Stoke City reserves in competitive games until they joined the Central League in 1968-69 season. They played Stoke at home that season in January and won 1-0.

However they did play a home friendly against Stoke's reserves in 1966-67 season (October 1966) and won 2-1.

I remember asking my Uncle why we never lifted a trophy at the end of it as the only match I had ever seen was the world cup final I was about five or six when I went

 

[RB1992]

Mid-90s ish against Forest. Can't remember any of it, probably because I fell asleep during the 2nd half!

First game I remember is first game of the season late 90s against Chelsea. They were wearing their yellow and blue kit and we won.

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

Mid-90s ish against Forest. Can't remember any of it, probably because I fell asleep during the 2nd half!

First game I remember is first game of the season late 90s against Chelsea. They were wearing their yellow and blue kit and we won.

We beat them all the bloody time at HR during that period and they were a very good team! So were we and never forget it. Coventry City beat Chelsea often....

 

[Sky Blue Kid]

The year we won promotion from Division 4. We were the "Bantams" then. February or March 1959. We beat Port Vale 1-0 at HR.

 

[mrtrench]

The first I remember was Sheff United at home. I'm pretty sure I'd been to some before and recall this game I think because I made friends with a young Blades fan and we both stood next to the steel rail on the kop. It would have been about 1970ish - Tony Currie was playing. I also remember a home game against Everton and I cried when they scored.

 

[Gosford Green]

City v Stoke 1974. We won 2-0. I went and stood down the front of the old kop end so I could get a good look at the likes of Dennis Mortimer, Stoke had an England player who I think was Alan Hudson. I was awe struck. Tommy Hutch scored and he was at the time the darling of the West End.

I remember a Leeds game from the same year when I was in the Sky Blue stand and there was loads of kids Nuneaton in Leeds scarves, they sat there expecting Leeds to win 5-0 it was 0-0.

I was 8

 

[ovduk78]

I was hooked long before I went but my dad, although he liked to see that we had won, was not a fan and was never going to take me. I used to religiously watch Grandstand to get the final scores coming through from the early 70s and when we had midweek games I used to get up early so that I could get the score from the Daily Mirror that my dad had bought on his way home from the nightshift at Massey's, sometimes they read the scores out at the end of the 9 o'clock news on bbc1. I remember crying when I went downstairs full of excitement to find out that we had lost 6-1 to Bayern Munich. My mum & dad had friends who lived just off the Binley Road at Stoke Green and I remember watching all the fans come out after wishing that I had been to watch them, I was not happy when I found out we had lost 3-0 to Stoke! I am sure the game kicked off at 3:15 and the result was late in and I think this was the norm and our home games alway kicked off at 3:15 in the early 70s.

Finally on 17th April 1973 my brother came home to say he was going to watch us play LIverpool and I went along. I stood on the Kop and couldn't see alot and even though we lost 2-1 I knew I would be back.

 

[ajsccfc]

This thread was a cracking idea.

 

[olderskyblue]

I honestly can't remember.

I used to go as a kid with my dad sometimes, but mostly with my uncles. I remember one match, one uncle climbed on the wall to get in, I was handed up, then my other uncle followed. Must have been a sell out, but no idea which match. I was at the big Sunderland & Man U cup games when we were in the 3rd division, but don't recall too much about it except for the crush. My uncle carried me out at the end as he reckoned i would have been trampled.

Started going with my mates from Cally in the promotion season in 67, standing against the wall in the west end. Great times. and then 2 or 3 years later, mingling with the "gang" next to away supporters. Seeing the Cov skins of the day just in there for the trouble, and feeling the adrenaline rush when it all kicked off. So many games you would hear "we took the west end" from the opposition fans, before an almighty push from City fans would shove them back into the corner.

Crazy way to watch your team really.

 

[oldskyblue58]

First game was 21st December 1968 away at Man City. We lost 4 : 2 but it was a big adventure on the day for a 10 year old lad and I was hooked. We had some good players then

Manchester City v Coventry City, 21 December 1968
Score 4-2 to Manchester City
Competition League Division One
Venue Maine Road
Attendance 27,700
View Manchester City v Coventry City head to head

4 Manchester City
2 Coventry City
Goals:
Goals:
Tony Hateley

Trevor Shepherd

Starting lineup:
Starting lineup:
Goalkeeper Bill Glazier
Right back Mick Coop
Defender/Centre back George Curtis
Left back Chris Cattlin
Left back David Clements
Midfielder Willie Carr
Midfielder Ernie Machin
Centre forward Tony Hateley
Centre forward Neil Martin
Forward Ernie Hunt
Forward Trevor Shepherd

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

My parents had no interest in football at all. My Uncle took me to a game for my 4th birthday in 1975. I think it was against Birmingham. He bought me a scarf too which I still have although it has a couple of rips now. Its been to Wembley 3 times too and still comes out occasionally for the odd game.
My first away game was with my mates against Arsenal in January 1987, it was a Sunday televised game and it'd been snowing. I remember Borrows getting hit with a snowball by some Arsenal kids. A solid nil-nil.

 

[Harries11]

My first game was at highfield road, in the league cup, against PNE. I always recalled it as a 4-1 loss but turns out we won by that score, shows how much attention i was paying. It was 27 Sept 2000, Aloisi Hatrick and John Eustace scored our goals,

 

[ovduk78]

Saturday 29th October 1977 Wolves 1 - 3 Coventry stood in the South Bank

Ian Wallace
Jim Blyth
Tommy Hutchinson
Bobby McDonald
Mick Coop
Terry Yorath
& especially on the day (though I cannot remember specifically why)...
Don Nardiello

SBA were pretty awesome that day...which was what hooked me really

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1 of my first away games. Kenny Hibbett scored for them in the first couple of minutes and Mick Ferguson got a hat-trick

 

[bringbackrattles]

This thread was a cracking idea.

Glad you're enjoying it. Some great experiences being recalled.

 

[bringbackrattles]

I honestly can't remember.

I used to go as a kid with my dad sometimes, but mostly with my uncles. I remember one match, one uncle climbed on the wall to get in, I was handed up, then my other uncle followed. Must have been a sell out, but no idea which match. I was at the big Sunderland & Man U cup games when we were in the 3rd division, but don't recall too much about it except for the crush. My uncle carried me out at the end as he reckoned i would have been trampled.

Started going with my mates from Cally in the promotion season in 67, standing against the wall in the west end. Great times. and then 2 or 3 years later, mingling with the "gang" next to away supporters. Seeing the Cov skins of the day just in there for the trouble, and feeling the adrenaline rush when it all kicked off. So many games you would hear "we took the west end" from the opposition fans, before an almighty push from City fans would shove them back into the corner.

Crazy way to watch your team really.

I too went to Cally. Would play in the morning for the school team, then go to games in the afternoon. Great days !

 

[Liquid Gold]

Mine was when we beat villa on Boxing Day 92 or 93. What a way to start.