It's only my 2nd post on here but long time lurker. I've been going up the city since 1946 when my great grandad first carried me there on his shoulders after a 24 hour shift in the mines. I remember when I was hanging off a floodlight when we beat Notts County 4-1 in '55 in front of 50,000 cov fans but you couldn't tell which team was which because it was all in black and white. Anyway, I've had enough of the politics and lies from SISU. Even though i've had a season ticket every year since season tickets were invented (except for Sh*tfields) I'm jacking it in. SISU should just do a deal so we can all watch cov in cov. Away games only for me this year.
Dear Sir, As someone who remembers well both the 1954-55 and 1955-56 seasons at Highfield Road, I wish to rectify six inconsistencies, doubts or untruths contained in the testimony above: 1 - You say this was your second post. I can find no evidence of a first post. 2 - although it is true that is a long time since 1946, it seems most unlikely if you are claiming that you have been lurking here for the past 74 years 3 - although rudimentary floodlights were first installed in 1953, they were not of a type that you could hang off. The floodlights on pylons in the corners of the ground were not installed until 1957. 4 - Coventry City didn't play against Notts County in 1955. It could not have been in the League as Coventry City were in the Third Division South between 1954 and 1956. Notts County were in the Second Divison at that time. it could not have been in the Cup since Coventry City went out in the first round on 19th November 1955 beaten at Highfield Road 0-1 by Exeter City. It could not have been in the League Cup since that competition did not commence until the 1960-61 season. 5 - not a single game at Highfield Road in 1955 was attended by 50,000 spectators. The
record crowd at the ground was on 29 April 1967 when 51,455 watched the Second Division title decider against Wolverhampton Wanderers. This was over 6,000 more than the previous
record set against Aston Villa in 1938. 6 - Season tickets for travel were invented in the nineteenth century and season tickets for football date back at least to the 1920s. If you did indeed have a season ticket in the 1920s when football season tickets were invented, I put it to you, that you, as a man already of mature years, had no legitimate business in 1955 to be carried on your elderly great grandfather's shoulders. In fact, I put it to you that you were not carried at all! This whole narrative is a fiction designed to mislead and deceive the goodly supporters of this club. I urge you to desist from writing a further dishonest post, you unspeakable lurker!
S. Holmes Esq
Postscript - readers may be intrigued to know how I saw through the dastardly untruths of this poster. It was his reference to the fact that you "could not tell which team was which as it was all in black and white". This was an admission that he had not actually been at this fictitious game in 1955 at all but had apparently been watching it on television instead. But the first football game to be televised at Highfield Road was not until after 1964 when the Match of the Day programme was first broadcast in black and white.
Sir, you are a liar and an humbug, and unfit to whirl a sky blue rattle. Post no more!