City result nearest the day you were born (before or after) (1 Viewer)

2-2 away at Palace.

Won 2-1 v Portsmouth 2nd replay 4th round FA Cup - played at White Hart Lane - Terry Bly and JImmy Whitehouse scorers

Lost 1-0 at Bristol City. Finished the day in 15th place of Division 3 (South) on 22 points from 17 games.
Guess we've gone down the shitter since then...

Lost to Villa 3-0 in the FA Cup (January 1965).

1-1 Tottenham - Bannister and Waddle - in a year Spurs got 2 points deducted for not being able to fulfill a game against us for having no safety certificate apparently!

ccfcricoh said:

1-1 Tottenham - Bannister and Waddle - in a year Spurs got 2 points deducted for not being able to fulfill a game against us for having no safety certificate apparently!

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I travelled down to that game with mates, I drove and we carried on off to have a night in Brighton in the clubs, we somehow slept in my mates Dad's old Territorial Army tent on a camp site..............it was that well camouflaged we struggled to find it at 3 am in the pitch black !

City 3 Palace 1, 6th of September 1980.

Yknow, the game that had the infamous Clive Allen 'no goal'.

Ashdown said:

I travelled down to that game with mates, I drove and we carried on off to have a night in Brighton in the clubs, we somehow slept in my mates Dad's old Territorial Army tent on a camp site..............it was that well camouflaged we struggled to find it at 3 am in the pitch black !

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Sounds like i missed out haha, shame i wasnt quite born!

Lost 1-0 away at Liverpool. On the day 16th September 1978

It's my birthday today, born 1975

skybluedan said:

It's my birthday today, born 1975

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Just picked up on this thread, so a belated 'Happy Birthday' to you Dan. What a bunch of lousy bastards my fellow SBTers are in not getting there before me.
Anyway Dan, seeing as you asked - The game closest to my birth date was the first game of 1966/67 played on 20th Aug. We beat Hull 1-0 and it didn't turn out to be a bad season for us.

I entered this world to a 2-2 Leicester (A), 1994/95 season. Blackburn were champions - now look at us both...

16 Dec 1967 Coventry City v Burnley W 5-1 League Division One

old git

2-1 Away win at Middlesboro Powell and Ferguson scoring

My brother's a 1-0 loss at Villa. Paul Birch scoring.

My lads, 3-0 victory against Derby County, we bought him home that day, sat on the Sofa with him watching the game on TV. Gary Mac, Hignett and Bothroyd scoring. That was the 3rd game of a 10 match unbeaten run, meaning we didnt lose until he was 5 weeks old.

Before - Win - 1987 FA Cup final
After - Loss - Community shield v Everton

Beat Brighton at Home 2-1 with Tommy English and Bobby McDonald getting the goals for us in front of 17,328.

fernandopartridge said:

Let's lighten things up a bit eh....

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24 Dec 1949 Coventry City v Grimsby Town D 1-1 League Division Two, scorer Murphy, attendance 24,058
I had no idea our attendances were so high back then.

2-2 Away to Southend Jan 16th 1954 Jimmy Hill outside left

Before 3-1 win home Sunderland.
After 3-0 win home Sheffield Wednesday.
Born 05/03/1969

Before: lost 3-0 to Wolves
After: won 1-0 vs Spurs
Born 7/6/73

bezzer said:

Lost to Villa 3-0 in the FA Cup (January 1965).

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This was my first ever away game, my Grandad took me. Seem to remember we never got near them.

Warwickshire lad said:

2-2 Away to Southend Jan 16th 1954 Jimmy Hill outside left

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I collect old City programmes and I've got one that has three 'Hill's' in the City line-up.

oscillatewildly said:

I collect old City programmes and I've got one that has three 'Hill's' in the City line-up.

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Nowadays we just have a mountain to climb
and A Shit creek to wade through.

1941/42 season. No fixtures as Coventry City didn't play second half of season. However, some of the squad from that season I saw play as a boy. George Mason, Billy Frith, Alf Wood, Ted Roberts. Just names to 99% of people on here but heros to me in the early 1950's