I also went with a group of Morris Engines boys. Took a mini-bus and parked in Stanley Park. Hijacked after the game but all survived! Great days!
I was there! Fantastic night! I was working at Morris Engines at the time and a group of us went to the game. I remember drowning out the Kop with our singing!
Bannister was shocking
Cracking finish at Old Trafford in 89. We've had a lot more 'shocking' top flight strikers than Bannister.
Gayle, Harford, Lightbourne, Jackson, Withey, Bamber, Brazil, Culpin, Livingstone, Zuniga and Drinkell to name a few since 1983.
Cracking finish at Old Trafford in 89. We've had a lot more 'shocking' top flight strikers than Bannister.
Gayle, Harford, Lightbourne, Jackson, Withey, Bamber, Brazil, Culpin, Livingstone, Zuniga and Drinkell to name a few since 1983.
What a fab picture, this was my favourite team and era.
If I had ever got to be on Mastermind,"Coventry City season 1977-78" would have been my specialist subject !
Such a shame we blew the UEFA cup chance towards the end of season. That year we were a very special team.
That's navy blue and white I take it.The 1950'sView attachment 5044
That's navy blue and white I take it.
Thanks. What sort of crowds were we getting back then?Yep - The Bants ! A young Reg Matthews in the line up.
Thanks. What sort of crowds were we getting back then?
Also, can I ask, as you went through the transition from Bantams to Sky Blues, how did you feel when the changes were announced? New nickname, new colours. Were you opposed, or did you embrace it?
And what about friends and peers?
Thanks. What sort of crowds were we getting back then?
Also, can I ask, as you went through the transition from Bantams to Sky Blues, how did you feel when the changes were announced? New nickname, new colours. Were you opposed, or did you embrace it?
And what about friends and peers?
Nope. I was right. It was 2-3
http://www.11v11.com/matches/coventry-city-v-huddersfield-town-03-october-1964-112092/
| 11 Dec 1965 | Coventry City v Huddersfield Town | L | 0-3 | League Division Two You're right mate. The game I was thinking of was a year later |
Think this was my first game:
http://www.11v11.com/matches/coventry-city-v-queens-park-rangers-16-april-1990-89698/
Cheers, VOR. Appreciate it.Firstly, a few of the team back then. John Austin, Lol Harvey, Peter Hill, Jimmy Hill, Roy Kirk, Alan Moore, Colin Colindridge, Dennis Uphill, Charlie Timmins, Ray Sambrook, Ken Mcpherson. Ken Jones, Iain Jamieson, Noel Simpson and George Curtis !
I was 14 that season and, although I had been going to Highfield Road since 1952, this was the season when I became hooked. Gates were around 7 - 8,000 prior to our relegation to Division Four (now Division Two). After relegation gates rocketed as we sought promotion back to Divison Three, vying with Port Vale for top spot, reaching 28,000 for one game. The atmosphere back then was great ! Rattles, singing, no violence. Highfield Road was a typical old fashioned, dated stadium and I loved it.
Like most teenagers I wecomed the changes introduced, but saddened we changed our strip. Everything seemed to be going forward at such a fast pace as football changed into the modern game we know now,
But I have my memories !
How not to play football?Stephen Hughes and Micky Doyle to todays team is my era. Will have some great stories to tell my grandchildren in years to come..
Cyrille's goal return was very poor, but he was a great target man to lay the ball off for others.A player who I didn't appreciate until after he was gone was Cyrille, took it for granted that a target man could control a ball wiith ease on thigh / chest and pass to his own player. It wasn't until he was replaced by Paul Furlong who spent most of the game chasing his first touch that I appreciated Cyrille. Not sure the same would ever be said about Doyle & Hughes.
Cyrille's goal return was very poor, but he was a great target man to lay the ball off for others.
Saw everything through Sky Blue tinted glasses . great days .
I was there! So, ignore my Chelsea 1968 memory and stick this one in, instead.First game i watched was with my father on Boxing day 1967..1-1 against Liverpool..Ian St John was sent off for nutting Brian Lewis.First game i went to on my own was a 4-1 win against Everton in 1972.I do remember a certain Chris Chilton scoring 2....and boy was he a crap player.
First game 1976...in the front of the Main Stand, that single line of seats, behind the little white wall, pretty much at pitch level.
A few years later up in the West Stand, then, in the 80's, the East Terrace and in the 90's and 2000's, the West Terrace.
My first match was the FA Cup 3rd round against Hull City in 1973. We won 3-0. Stein scored 2.
In the above picture I'd have been stood behind Harry Roberts just down from the smelly bogs!
Perfectly! Thanks.
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