It was absolutely heaving as I recall - worst ever was, however, the game against Forest when they won the league. Could barely breathe in there it was that packed.
Anyone remember the Steve Witton goal at the Hawthorns to give us, I think , a 2-1 win. It was the first time we’d beaten the Baggies in years as they regularly stuffed us? Cov end went wild that day.
That was some night, as you say particularly sweet as Thompson had given away the own goal earlier- could have heard a pin drop in the West End then, absolute bedlam when he got the winner in the same net!
Terry came to our school (Ullathorne) and I got his autograph - anyone remember that mid- week game against Liverpool back in the 70s when Sourness knee‘ed Terry in the nuts off the ball, dirty bas*#&d?
I went for a short break in Istanbul a few years ago and the hotel organised a tour of one of the local markets with a guide. Fenerbahçe had just won the title for a record time so their colours were everywhere. I asked the guide to see if any of the stall holders had heard of Coventry City and...