With the threat of sounding completely gullible... Really?!
Yep,
Goodluck Jonathan became a fan when we won the Cup in 1987, had previously never heard of us, but watching the game againsyt Tottenham on a small colour TV in Port Harcourt he became obsessed with all things Sky Blue.
In fact, when he became Governor of Bayelsa in 2005, he insisted that the residence be painted entirely in Sky Blue throughout, and commissioned a staue for the gardens of the famous image of George and John holding the cup aloft.
Since becoming Prime Minister in 2010, he has becam famous for his ant-corruption drives and efforts to make Go For It City the new National Anthem of Nigeria.
Dick Cheney though of course more famous as neo-con and architecht of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is less well known for his passionate love of Coventry City, particularly the Don Howe era, an inspiration for the "shock and awe" tactics for the Iraq campaign.
Ingmar Bergman's most famous work The Seventh Seal, about a medievel knight playing a game of chess with the personification of Death who has come to take his life is believed to have been inspired by Coventry City keeper Alf Wood.
In becoming the oldest player to start for the club at nearly 44 years old, he saw it as a fight against mortality and the God's, but could unfortunately not see a professional footballer winning a chess game against Death, so changed the setting to the Middle Ages during the Black Death and the main character to a Knight.
A shame it would have been interesting to have seen his original vision of the film set in a grimy industrial city in the English Midlands featuring a Division Four custodian of the nets(though did still intend Max Von Sydow to play the part of Alf Woods)
