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    Larry Lloyd R.I.P.

    I think he did.
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    Larry Lloyd R.I.P.

    I think you’re right, but not really for us. For whatever reason I don’t think he was at his best in a sky blue shirt.
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    My favourite goal

    From the man himself! “By the time we went to Highbury in my fourth game for the club, I had already scored my first Coventry goal, a 25-yarder in a 3-1 win against West Ham. I didn’t think I would score a better goal that season. I was wrong! We were already winning 1-0 against Arsenal and...
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    FA Cup Semi Final Draw

    Apologies if this has been mentioned. I’ve just seen a fact about Man Utd stated in the magazine When Saturday Comes. Apparently the Utd squad at a cost of £1.21 billion are the most expensive group assembled in football ever anywhere in the world. (From a UEFA report). Amazing that I think (and...
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    Match Thread Watford FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 9th Mar

    Just to say again that this was a boy of about 11. However, just because ‘he was giving Cov fans some’ he then becomes fair game? Once again, this is an 11 year old boy. Who are the adults here and who the children? I watched most of the shoot out and all I seen of him was that he was becoming...
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    Match Thread Watford FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 9th Mar

    I think the fact that a lot of our fans were singing it is part of the problem. We’re talking about an 11 year old boy here who has a thousand plus adults jeering him after he mis-kicked a penalty in a half time shoot out. Do you think the boy himself found it light hearted? I wonder if you have...
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    Match Thread Watford FC - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 9th Mar

    I didn’t think it was class. Great the cheering and applause for the team in red. However, what you are talking about are grown men and women jeering and making fun of a primary school kid because he was upset about missing a penalty. Was there really a need to chant ‘You’re gonna cry in a...
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    Missing piece of the jigsaw

    Clive Haywood played for Bulova in Hong Kong with Hutch.
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    Missing piece of the jigsaw

    I loved watching Graham Oakey play. Such a skilful full back. It was like having an extra winger in the team. Oakey my favourite ever right back and Bobby Mac my favourite left back. We had such an attacking team. It was pure joy watching them play.
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    Missing piece of the jigsaw

    Tommy was a naturally fit bloke, very rarely injured. He fact that he was still playing professionally at the age of 46 is testament to that.
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    Missing piece of the jigsaw

    Gillespie scored a goal for us against Arsenal where he broke free of their defence on the half way line, carried the ball into their box, rounded the keeper( Seaman?, Phil Parkes?) and slotted the ball into the net. A very skilful, ball playing centre half. For all of that, if you could only...
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    QF Draw

    He was being touted as the new Bobby Moore for his reading of the game but his lack of pace was really exposed in this match.
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    QF Draw

    I seem to remember it was about 17k City fans there for that match. However I’ve just watched YouTube clips of that game and there were plenty of Wolves fans in the Southbank celebrating John Richard’s goal. We had such a good team that year I was sure we were going to win The Cup.
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    Match Thread Coventry City - Maidstone United [FA] Match Thread - Monday 26th Feb

    We thumped Macclesfield. It was Woking and their player’s attitude that annoyed McAlister. We drew 1-1 at Highfield Road and scraped through in the replay 2-1. I think that there had been some disrespectful comments from them about our players in the press.
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    Win promotion or the FA Cup ?

    I would generally agree with you in that anything pre-Premier League era is wrongly discounted. A second division team winning the cup now simply emulates a second division club winning it pre ‘92. However, such is the dominance of the ‘big’ clubs that it is really unusual for any team, even...
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