I’ve just turned 60, and I started going to games with my dad when I was five, hence its been a long long journey we’ve been onto together, which can only be summed up perfectly by the word, rollercoaster.
My personal low was sat away on a Tuesday or Wednesday night with about 600 other Skyblues, on the coldest night I’ve ever watched Cov, at Colchester‘s Soul less stadium in league two, when we were mid table in the bottom league, though we won with a couple of crackers from McColdrick, I just thought I was witnessing my once great club about to spend the next 5 years in the bottom rung of English professional football.
We have had the terrible SISU years, I’ve watched my team play ‘home’ in Northampton, a huge low, but I’ve also had some the greatest days of my life, the early Seventies with Ernie Hunt, Willie Carr ,Mick Coop who I met once and loved, & the later years of Ian Wallace & Mick Ferguson , Mickey Quinn , Darren Huckerby, Keano et all, who I absolutely all adored.
I have watched my team play in Europe, at home twice, once beating a great Bayern Munich side, though in typical Cov style we were 6-0 down from first leg , that contained half the German National team, plus of course the great FA cup run of 1987 where every game went to the wire, but I’ve got to say, I loved today so much, as much as the games ive mentioned.
For a club/team in total turmoil 5/6 years ago, to go away and beat and out play, an established top half Prem team, it’s right up there in my memories
My personal low was sat away on a Tuesday or Wednesday night with about 600 other Skyblues, on the coldest night I’ve ever watched Cov, at Colchester‘s Soul less stadium in league two, when we were mid table in the bottom league, though we won with a couple of crackers from McColdrick, I just thought I was witnessing my once great club about to spend the next 5 years in the bottom rung of English professional football.
We have had the terrible SISU years, I’ve watched my team play ‘home’ in Northampton, a huge low, but I’ve also had some the greatest days of my life, the early Seventies with Ernie Hunt, Willie Carr ,Mick Coop who I met once and loved, & the later years of Ian Wallace & Mick Ferguson , Mickey Quinn , Darren Huckerby, Keano et all, who I absolutely all adored.
I have watched my team play in Europe, at home twice, once beating a great Bayern Munich side, though in typical Cov style we were 6-0 down from first leg , that contained half the German National team, plus of course the great FA cup run of 1987 where every game went to the wire, but I’ve got to say, I loved today so much, as much as the games ive mentioned.
For a club/team in total turmoil 5/6 years ago, to go away and beat and out play, an established top half Prem team, it’s right up there in my memories
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you could quite clearly hear the moans and groans from the natives - but we still had to work hard and be our best. You could see the difference in quality in the few moments they switched on and attacked. But we were brave and I’m proud of how we didn’t cave in after going behind, we could still smell blood and we took it. We equalised and I thought they’d step it up in ET… you know the rest.