Becoming a Sky Blue (1 Viewer)

Tried to take my 5 year old a few years back and her favourite player was the linesman! Will probably try again later this year. That was her first memory!

My Dad was not a massive football fan and I kind of almost fell into it. My brother was a Liverpool fan growing up but I was always Cov.

My Dad took me and my brother to a Cov/Liverpool game in the mid 80's and I was hooked. Think we lost and my brother trying to wind me up but even as a 5/6 year old it didn't matter to me as they were "my club".

As we got older 9/10/11 used to go to lots of reserve games as it was cheap (£1 was it?) and then in my first year at Cally a girl in my class did something for Cov and ended up getting a free season ticket which she gave me a she didn't want it and then over the next 3 or 4 years I had a season ticket with mates on schools.

After that we used to just go in on kids tickets up until the age of about 22.

*Almost forgot my Dad also took us to the infamous Banik Ostrava game where Dobson scored from in his own half. Almost legendary this game and half of Cov claim to have been there when in reality only the main stand was open and one solitary fan in the Kop, who incidentally was a mate of ours at the time, Jamie Clelland, who we were meant to be meeting in the Kop but my Dad chose to go in the main stand instead.

Grandfather had been going since late 40s. My old man never got the bug so granddad took me up in 1974 for 1 st game and we went together every week until he became too ill to go in early 80s. Still think of him everytime I go. Took my girls until they got older. Hopefully will get the chance to take my grandson when the time is right.

1987 cup final, watched that on tv, brilliant! Never been in Highfield Road or Ricoh but planning to do so next season. Live in Finland and hope to see a Finn on this great team. Niki Maenpaa GK just released from Brighton

Never had a father figure to set me right so grew up supporting United until I was around 10, then me and my mate and his dad used to go to games, it was only about £6 to get in. Can still remember the first away game we were 'allowed' to go parent-less, Reading...won 2-1 Andy Morrel scored late. Me and him still go home and away.

I was hooked after my dad took me to highfield road for the first time. My two older brothers supported Leeds and Stoke city but for me it was always the sky blues. Used to live in Dane road so not far to the ground and I used nearly every penny of my pocket money to get in nearly every home game.
Grew up loving Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson and also Colin Stein. Sat here trying to remember a game where I think Ferguson scored 4 goals and on the scoreboard it said Ferguson 4 Ipswich 0.
At least I think it was Ipswich.
Great days at Highfield Road

My first game...

covkid69 said:

I was hooked after my dad took me to highfield road for the first time. My two older brothers supported Leeds and Stoke city but for me it was always the sky blues. Used to live in Dane road so not far to the ground and I used nearly every penny of my pocket money to get in nearly every home game.
Grew up loving Ian Wallace and Mick Ferguson and also Colin Stein. Sat here trying to remember a game where I think Ferguson scored 4 goals and on the scoreboard it said Ferguson 4 Ipswich 0.
At least I think it was Ipswich.
Great days at Highfield Road

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It was Ipswich - Bobby Robson had just put a bid in for Fergie, but ()I think) withdrew it; he did at least joke that the price would go up loads as Fergie then went and scored 4 against them.

TheParsonsHose said:

This thread led me this bit of history:

Gone but not forgotten - Highfield Road

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Strange that it says the 3-2 semi final win against Leeds was at Highfield Road !!

LastGarrison said:

*Almost forgot my Dad also took us to the infamous Banik Ostrava game where Dobson scored from in his own half. Almost legendary this game and half of Cov claim to have been there when in reality only the main stand was open and one solitary fan in the Kop, who incidentally was a mate of ours at the time, Jamie Clelland, who we were meant to be meeting in the Kop but my Dad chose to go in the main stand instead.

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I was there and I'm fairly sure he wan't in his own half, I remember it as him being about 40 yards out.

clint van damme said:

I was there and I'm fairly sure he wan't in his own half, I remember it as him being about 40 yards out.

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Give it a few more years and the myth will have spread to him scoring from taking a goal kick!

Moved to Coventry in 81 to work - brought up in South West London so was a Chelsea supporter and went regularly with my mother believe it or not - i can still recite the cup final team without thinking - met my wife in 86 whose brother is a diehard Cov fan - started going to games with him and enjoyed the spion cop experience with all it brought ! wife and i have had season tickets since 88 ( missed the cup final at a wedding of a Spurs supporter so a little pleasure ) loving it !

Standard affair for me - born in Cov. My dad took me to my first game when I was about 6, pretty sure it was the 1-1 draw vs Ipswitch in 1972 because I remember Jeff Blockly scoring a pen.

My brother in law is a strange one though, he's from yam yam land but decided his team was the Sky Blues when he was a kid, despite the rest of the street being West Brom fans. Think he just wanted to be different, plus we were on MOTD a fair bit back then. My missus took him a few times on the bus from Brum to Cov (old 900?), then leave him to walk to HR while she spend the afteroon shopping in town (and she was supposed to be looking after him!). I guess you could get away with that in those days.

It always interests (baffles) me how those without any locality or family reason would choose Coventry to support haha. Interesting though and fair fucking play to them!

Was taken up Highfield Road at a very early age. Remember being awestruck when approaching the ground from King Richard Street at seeing so many people stacked up in one place and then by the colours on the pitch as we only had black & white TV back then. Also our primary school was only a stone's throw from the ground so everything that happened at the club was the subject of daily conversation. A schoolfriend of mine was actually born in Highfield Road so lived and (eventually) died for the Sky Blues.

was taken to my first match 1968 ......... at Maine Rd ............ we lost 4:2 but I was hooked. It was one big day of adventure and the right Sky Blues, CCFC, became my team

Manchester City v Coventry City, 21 December 1968

oldskyblue58 said:

was taken to my first match 1968 ......... at Maine Rd ............ we lost 4:2 but I was hooked. It was one big day of adventure and the right Sky Blues, CCFC, became my team

Manchester City v Coventry City, 21 December 1968

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I'd always assumed that you got into CCFC because we've had the most interesting set of accounts to analyse over an extended period of time!

Dad's not into football at all, spent all of my youth watching speedway, touring cars and F1. Consequently i never paid any attention to football at all until i was well in to my teens. Thing was, at school, everyone had a team and football was a constant topic of conversation. When i got asked who i supported i always said Cov as thats where i was from and i knew at least a little bit about the team as my cousins were genuine Cov fans so i could answer a few questions, enough for it not to be awkward. As time went on though i found myself reading up on match reports, watching matches when were on telly etc and it didn't take that long to get bitten by the bug and i was soon going to matches.

Can honestly say from the first game my dad took me to watch in the sixties at Highfield Road I was hooked. Loved it all and even though we've been through it all over the decades, still love my football club.
I said in the pub yesterday we are going up this season coming I just have that feeling, but it was met with ridicule and laughter. They said that's a Cov fan talking with positivity though, and why not !

bringbackrattles said:

Can honestly say from the first game my dad took me to watch in the sixties at Highfield Road I was hooked. Loved it all and even though we've been through it all over the decades, still love my football club.
I said in the pub yesterday we are going up this season coming I just have that feeling, but it was met with ridicule and laughter. They said that's a Cov fan talking with positivity though, and why not !

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I think we are going up again this season.

bringbackrattles said:

Can honestly say from the first game my dad took me to watch in the sixties at Highfield Road I was hooked. Loved it all and even though we've been through it all over the decades, still love my football club.
I said in the pub yesterday we are going up this season coming I just have that feeling, but it was met with ridicule and laughter. They said that's a Cov fan talking with positivity though, and why not !

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Like you hooked from the moment I entered the turnstiles at the kop end. Dad carried up a stool for me and I peered over the wall just to the left of the goal. Loved the highs and wouldn’t change the lows and will always support our club.
As for promotion next season I’m not so sure. I would be happy for progress on (and hopefully off) the pitch and a mid table finish. But I will dream that we can do it and have a good cup run.


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clint van damme said:

I was there and I'm fairly sure he wan't in his own half, I remember it as him being about 40 yards out.

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Just tried to YouTube it but sadly it’s not there.

But you’re probably right. I think over the years he scores from further and further out in my mind!

Yeah-definitely a 40 yarder it was-well inside their half.

LastGarrison said:

Just tried to YouTube it but sadly it’s not there.

But you’re probably right. I think over the years he scores from further and further out in my mind!

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still some goal!

Mine was hereditary, too. My dad is a Coventry supporter so my brother and I just carried it on by default. I was born in 1986 so although I went to games as a really young kid, it was the early 90's when I started conciously going. We'd go to games most Saturdays at Highfield Road. Loved those times and have stuck with them since!

Funny to think though, that up until the Checkatrade Trophy final all I'd seen Cov do in my lifetime was get relegated (can't claim the 1987 FA Cup final as I wasn't even 1 year old then, though my dad saw it as an omen at the time!). I'm really excited that, although it's taken this long, we're finally starting to see some progress.

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Yeah-definitely a 40 yarder it was-well inside their half.

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I disagree. I was there. Now that goal was a long time ago but I can still see it in my minds eye and it was from the half way line.

Irish Sky Blue said:

I disagree. I was there. Now that goal was a long time ago but I can still see it in my minds eye and it was from the half way line.

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So was I. Looking out from the West Terrace he hit it well inside the half and it was out to the right which may have made it look further than it was? Shame we can’t find it to have a look.

Adge said:

So was I. Looking out from the West Terrace he hit it well inside the half and it was out to the right which may have made it look further than it was? Shame we can’t find it to have a look.

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Yep. Have to agree to disagree. I was sitting in the Main Stand so maybe had a better perspective than you!

Come from a huge family of Newcastle fans on my dads side of the family, but when a lot of them moved to Coventry in the 1950's their kids, one of which being my dad decided it was only right to support their local team, and so he became a Sky Blue, and saw us travel up the leagues in the fantastic period under Jimmy Hill.

His passion for everything CCFC passed on to me, and after going to games when i was younger, became a season ticket holder when i was 9, and held one for many years.

Whilst i don't get to as many games now as I wish due to my daughters football, I have passed on my passion to my kids who are both CCFC fans, and my daughter wears her shirt with pride to her football training sessions in Leicester where she plays, and is proud to give them some stick if she gets any her way. She likes to let them know what Wembley is like.

My Grandad was from South Shields and was a Sunderland fan. Like many from the North East he moved down to the midlands (Cov in his case) in the 30s looking for work, and ended up working in the munitions factories in WW2. Got blitzed out Nov 14, 1941. Anyhow took me to see City play Sunderland 5th round of the FA Cup, 1963. A great 2-1 win against a higher league team under floodlights, 40,000 plus, although probably 50,000 plus as a gate was broken in. What a great night - I was totally hooked!

Because of Grandad, I always had a soft spot for Sunderland, which makes the animosity of some of their fans towards us, very disappointing.

I don’t have any connection with Cov but when I was younger, all I got was Man Utd and Liverpool rammed down my throat. At the age of 15 I launched a revolt and chose Big Rons Sky Blue Army. I’m 33 now and been through some tough years but have 2 kids that are Sky Blue, no one else rocks up at school in a Cov kit but my kids do and I love it!!! Pusb

simple jealousy lol. my best friend went to every home game with his dad when i was like 9 or 10. i always wanted to go but wasnt allowed as my parents thought it was still era of hooliganism

instead i used to give him 50p for a programme most weeks and i would love the chart at the end with results and scorers etc

until august 1993 when my friends dad came round my house and assured parents it was safe and he would look after me. went to game, missed covs goal(wegerle) cos wasnt aware you can get up from your seat whena goal is imminent lol but i was hooked nonethless

good times

We moved to Rugby from Stoke Aldermoor in 1967 but my mum & dad had no real interest in football but as they were both from Coventry and my grandparents still lived in Green Lane & Styechale that was enough for me to start following around 1970. My older brother ended up supporting Leicester because he was close to my grandads brother & that's where he lived but I have no idea why my other brother supported Man Utd. I didn't go to a game until April 1973 when a family friend took me & my older brother to see us lose 2-1 to Liverpool and by 1975 I would get the train over for most home games.