What area of Coventry has the highest amount of City fans per capita? (1 Viewer)

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Although Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?

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No - just drug dealers

 

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[capel & collindridge]

if

you are being so specific you should know if it is 6 or if it is 7

Quite right I should. It is just that I know there is someone else here who I know supports Coventry but can't remember who. It's a problem with growing old!

 

[usskyblue]

Although Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?

Looks like you took it to the next level m8

 

[Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue]

I think this question is difficult to answer as undoubtedly generations perception of football and being a ‘football supporter’ has changed massively in the last 20 years, not just in Coventry but across the UK.

For me, being a football supporter is supporting your local team, going the games as much as possible, having the atmosphere and seeing your mates, thrown in with the odd away game every so often, which is a day out to look forward to.

How it all began? When I was 7, my grandad started taking me up the City, as he did with my brother, cousins and so on. Back then, dodgy kodi boxes hadn’t been invented, my parents couldn’t afford SkySports and going up the City and watching MOTD (and then years later the Football League Show with Steve Claridge and Manish!) was my only exposure to football. I also remember most of the lads at my school supporting City with the odd few, weird exceptions. Plenty of Dublin/Keane/Hadji shirts etc on non school uniform days and for football training..

To speak generally: For kids these days, there’s a lot more exposure to top-level football and potential to ‘support’ an elite team - Non stop games on Sky/BT, social media, JD/Sports Direct stocking plastic shirts from across the world (but no local teams shirts). All of this along with expensive travel/tickets (their own fault for being glory hunters) has resulted in 18/19 year olds that own a load of shit branded merchandise, can tell you every Liverpool player’s rating on Fifa but can’t tell you a decent pub near the ground. I don’t think there’s as much importance to them to go to the games.

I don’t think the percentage of CCFC fans in the City or surrounding areas is as high as it used to be but I think that’s a trend probably across the UK.

 

[usskyblue]

I think this question is difficult to answer as undoubtedly generations perception of football and being a ‘football supporter’ has changed massively in the last 20 years, not just in Coventry but across the UK.

For me, being a football supporter is supporting your local team, going the games as much as possible, having the atmosphere and seeing your mates, thrown in with the odd away game every so often, which is a day out to look forward to.

How it all began? When I was 7, my grandad started taking me up the City, as he did with my brother, cousins and so on. Back then, dodgy kodi boxes hadn’t been invented, my parents couldn’t afford SkySports and going up the City and watching MOTD (and then years later the Football League Show with Steve Claridge and Manish!) was my only exposure to football. I also remember most of the lads at my school supporting City with the odd few, weird exceptions. Plenty of Dublin/Keane/Hadji shirts etc on non school uniform days and for football training..

To speak generally: For kids these days, there’s a lot more exposure to top-level football and potential to ‘support’ an elite team - Non stop games on Sky/BT, social media, JD/Sports Direct stocking plastic shirts from across the world (but no local teams shirts). All of this along with expensive travel/tickets (their own fault for being glory hunters) has resulted in 18/19 year olds that own a load of shit branded merchandise, can tell you every Liverpool player’s rating on Fifa but can’t tell you a decent pub near the ground. I don’t think there’s as much importance to them to go to the games.

I don’t think the percentage of CCFC fans in the City or surrounding areas is as high as it used to be but I think that’s a trend probably across the UK.

U wot m8 ?

 

[hinckley cov]

Hinckley and Burbage quite a few cov you can tell our lot we only have four fingers and one thumb on each hand

 

[usskyblue]

Hinckley and Burbage quite a few cov you can tell our lot we only have four fingers and one thumb on each hand

Used to live in Hinckley m8. Off the Coventry Rd, near a pub called ‘The Tin Hat’. Funnily enough, you needed one to frequent it.

Would walk down the canal to the ‘Lime Kilns’ on the A5 instead m8

 

[CanadianCCFC]

Lots in Alberta

Really? How many of you are there and do you ever meet up?

 

[clint van damme]

I think this question is difficult to answer as undoubtedly generations perception of football and being a ‘football supporter’ has changed massively in the last 20 years, not just in Coventry but across the UK.

For me, being a football supporter is supporting your local team, going the games as much as possible, having the atmosphere and seeing your mates, thrown in with the odd away game every so often, which is a day out to look forward to.

How it all began? When I was 7, my grandad started taking me up the City, as he did with my brother, cousins and so on. Back then, dodgy kodi boxes hadn’t been invented, my parents couldn’t afford SkySports and going up the City and watching MOTD (and then years later the Football League Show with Steve Claridge and Manish!) was my only exposure to football. I also remember most of the lads at my school supporting City with the odd few, weird exceptions. Plenty of Dublin/Keane/Hadji shirts etc on non school uniform days and for football training..

To speak generally: For kids these days, there’s a lot more exposure to top-level football and potential to ‘support’ an elite team - Non stop games on Sky/BT, social media, JD/Sports Direct stocking plastic shirts from across the world (but no local teams shirts). All of this along with expensive travel/tickets (their own fault for being glory hunters) has resulted in 18/19 year olds that own a load of shit branded merchandise, can tell you every Liverpool player’s rating on Fifa but can’t tell you a decent pub near the ground. I don’t think there’s as much importance to them to go to the games.

I don’t think the percentage of CCFC fans in the City or surrounding areas is as high as it used to be but I think that’s a trend probably across the UK.

is that an I don't know to the original question mate?!

 

[Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue]

is that an I don't know to the original question mate?!

Sort of. I think the number of City fans has decreased in the last 15 years but wouldn’t be able to guess a percentage. I’ve got plenty of mates from Coundon that go up the games but that’s as specific as I can be!!

 

[clint van damme]

Sort of. I think the number of City fans has decreased in the last 15 years but wouldn’t be able to guess a percentage. I’ve got plenty of mates from Coundon that go up the games but that’s as specific as I can be!!

Wouldn't know myself to be honest. My original though was Beduff.
Not sure what area actually in Cov.

 

[Esoterica]

It's in the heart and ground that matters.

You can't count the ones in the ground. It gives places like Cheylesmore an unfair advantage when they have the London Road Cemetery.

 

[Captain Dart]

Wolves and Brighton are examples of lost generations returning to the fold.
There is no secret how they did it. By winning games, by creating the conditions that welcomed the returning fans and enticing new ones. In fact all that Wasps did upon their arrival.
We know there is latent support for the club but it's translating that to getting them to come to games.
I think that reclaiming the towns is a fantastic step and although Riyadh is my home nowadays my family live in Nuneaton and I will join that branch.
We have to drive Leicester, Blues and especially Villa out of our heartland by offering something of an identity that we all can hang our hat on.
I am sure we are going in the right direction and the smell of decay has been replaced by something sweeter, now let's hope the idiots don't leave us homeless again.

Latent. That's the right word.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Quite right I should. It is just that I know there is someone else here who I know supports Coventry but can't remember who. It's a problem with growing old!

Is the person you?

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Latent. That's the right word.

Latent Orient - now not even in the Football League - a ground I've not been to, but always wanted to.

 

[CovInEssex]

Many Cov in Kearsley?

 

[edgy]

Always said it. Look at the flow of traffic coming out of the Arena/Tesco area. Its mostly heading towards M6. So, Nuneaton & Bedworth.

 

[Hobo]

You can't count the ones in the ground. It gives places like Cheylesmore an unfair advantage when they have the London Road Cemetery.

Where our founder rests

 

[rob9872]

Always said it. Look at the flow of traffic coming out of the Arena/Tesco area. Its mostly heading towards M6. So, Nuneaton & Bedworth.

But you'd have to factor away fans into that data too who will mostly be heading towards the motorway rather than through town.

 

[rob9872]

I was born in Cov but live in Warwick and there are loads over here I'd say. My daughter (11) in her class they are almost all City. Only her and a couple of the lads regularly go to games, but they pretty much all follow in some capacity.

 

[Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue]

Many Cov in Kearsley?

Plenty of cov fans in the Wallace before/after a game

 

[Liquid Gold]

Always said it. Look at the flow of traffic coming out of the Arena/Tesco area. Its mostly heading towards M6. So, Nuneaton & Bedworth.

Nah it's just the easiest way to come back to the south west.

 

[Sick Boy]

Although Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?

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hahaha...had to have a think about what you were on about then!

 

[Sick Boy]

There's quite a few in Brighton & Hove, got stopped about 5 times over the summer when wearing a cov shirt.

 

[Hugh Jarse]

Surprisingly, 6 or 7 of us in St Neots in Cambridgeshire from 5 different families.

In breds!

 

[Skybluefaz]

In breds!

Nah they're cov so it's inbatch

 

[Ashdown]

Hinckley and Burbage quite a few cov you can tell our lot we only have four fingers and one thumb on each hand

Speak for yourself young man !!

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Yes always been a lot of support coming from Bedworth, but like most city fans will only turn up to see a winning side.
Always been that way unfortunately.

 

[Ashdown]

I'd say 75 % of people in Cov count themselves Sky Blues when we are doing very well. Alas apart from the two trips to Wembley and subsequent promotion, glory days have been a bit thin on the ground. The club database used to have 250,000 supporters names who had attended at some point over the last few years so there is a big spread of fans with some folk perhaps just attending once or twice a season. There has been way too much politics surrounding the club for too long now and a gradual decline in ability to compete at a level any higher than we are at now. Those who do show up are often treated to poor quality football in a third full stadium with very little atmosphere and have to pay around £25 for the privilege plus ancillary spend. The pubs and eating around the Ricoh are largely run down and if you have a beverage onsite { Concourses, Hotel, Casino } it means an expensive lager in a plastic glass, the food offerings are poor too so the experience can be underwhelming at times for the casual supporter.
At League One level we are down to the 'habituals and diehards' and they come from all over the country it seems !

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

There's quite a few in Brighton & Hove, got stopped about 5 times over the summer when wearing a cov shirt.

They were just on holiday, they don't live there.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Wolves and Brighton are examples of lost generations returning to the fold.
There is no secret how they did it. By winning games, by creating the conditions that welcomed the returning fans and enticing new ones. In fact all that Wasps did upon their arrival.
We know there is latent support for the club but it's translating that to getting them to come to games.
I think that reclaiming the towns is a fantastic step and although Riyadh is my home nowadays my family live in Nuneaton and I will join that branch.
We have to drive Leicester, Blues and especially Villa out of our heartland by offering something of an identity that we all can hang our hat on.
I am sure we are going in the right direction and the smell of decay has been replaced by something sweeter, now let's hope the idiots don't leave us homeless again.

Wolves suffered descreases in attendance when they went from 1st to 4th in the 80s. However, their gates recovered in the 90s and have been pretty solid since, always been well supported and certainly better than CCFC, higher average even in the league below us since the 90s

 

[robbiekeane]

Jesus been a bit boring on here recently fine but are we st this level

 

[hinckley cov]

Speak for yourself young man !!

Bloody hell , it’s a long time since I’ve been called young man

 

[Irish Sky Blue]

I have started going to the walking football sessions put on by SBITC. One think that is really apparent is the amount of players who play in replica City shirts, I would say about 80% of those attending. The chat before the sessions start is often about the last City game so lots of the chaps actually go to the games as well as have the shirts. The fact you have to be over 50 to play perhaps gives the picture of the aging demographic of our fan base.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

The fact you have to be over 50 to play perhaps gives the picture of the aging demographic of our fan base.

I used to think that but where we sit in block 16 we are well outnumbered by younger fans.
I'm in my 50s btw.