Recent content by Leamington Pete

I was at Upton Park when Harry scored. Not many can say that as our away following totalled about 200!

Well my whisper was a pile of horse doo doo. From someone who should know better too. My opportunity to be a smug know all well and truly shafted. I’m off to bed. PUSB

If I’m right I’ll be back on here being very smug. If I’m wrong I’ll disappear and pretend it wasn’t me!

Heard a whisper. Might need a stiff drink before I put it on here 😉

The day is not done sir.

FFS. We rented their ground. Now we’re not renting their ground. A flag??!!!

👏👏👏 That’s very good to be fair!

😀!

The U18s lost 6-2 in a friendly with Aston Villa this morning.

I can categorically confirm that Ben is not Oggy’s grandson!

Only just caught up with this thread. Here’s a pic I took from the away seats in March ‘81. Got stuffed 4-1 if I’m not mistaken. Got another shot somewhere featuring the Cov fans huddled on the open terrace which I’ll dig out one day. I put my old Cov images on my twitter account from time to...

A Cov 11 lost 4-1 in a bcd game at Villa’s training ground. A strong Villa team had first team players not away on international duty and a few younger lads. Not sure about our line up but our goal came from a Hamer free kick I believe. Played 90 mins in 4 quarters with a lot of changes.

Having been to many League club training grounds I don’t think I’ve seen a smaller, more basic set up than ours. Much easier to attract top players if we offer good facilities.

That’s very true, and towards the end of the season it may well start to show amongst some teams. The important thing is to hit the ground running as the rest of the league will already be raring to go.

We’re going to have to get our pre season spot on as we’ll be disadvantaged from the start. Along with Rotherham, we’ll not have played competitively since March - that’ll be six months if the season starts in September. Championship clubs are about to get 9 league games under their belts taking...