I cannot subscribe to the theory that it was "only" the JPT and that if we had been fortunate enough to win it, it would have been a blot on our "illustrious" landscape?
Did Southampton's revival not begin with a similar victory?
But more importantly than that, would a Wembley trip not have invigorated the city of Coventry, if only for a short while? Surely it would have engaged many non believers? and more importantly than any of that still; A trip to Wembley surely would have engaged the younger generation of the City of Coventry, a younger generation that for so long have been starved of any footballing highlights, a younger generation who have been fed; Bury, Burnley and respectfully Crewe of late and not as I was fortunate enough to witness, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd.
Not that stature of opposition alone should define a footballing legacy, but in a City so cosmopolitan in demographic as Coventry undeniably is, when many a distraction exists as an option to Football on a Saturday, I worry that this lost generation is one lost for good and the diminishing attendances that follow will be a spiral to never-ending mundaneness .
If the present incumbents, trusted with the custody of our club can be accused of anything, then it is in the dereliction of duty in this regard- no vision, no plan, lost trust and confidence.
They must go.
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