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You might have gathered this but I mainly blame the players. Clearly Mowbray has a wealth of football knowledge and managerial experience at high level. He said last night that the players basically did the exact opposite of the team talk in the first 20 minutes. I'd give him another year.

Reminds me of hearing a couple on a TV quiz show a few years back. Smug pair. Said they were both 'Gooners' and had met through Arsenal and been through 'thick and thin' since.

Ball even!

What was so depressing last night was the sheer inevitability of it. For quite a few games now they have looked as though they are playing a practice match when the opposition look as if they care. They are a spent force, no passion, no energy, no fight, no leadership. Concede a goal now and...

I think you also have to take into account the relative size of the club. Coventry is usually accounted the 8th or 9th biggest city in England and is in the middle of Warwickshire with a number of large towns. It only has one club. CCFC arrived in the top tier with huge momentum and very big...

Don't remember too many games where the opposition should have been several goals up but we won. Happens all too frequently against us. I know fans have blinkers but I honestly can't remember us winning many matches whilst being battered. Another reason why supporting Cov is so challenging.

I was introduced to the faith by my old man in 1969, so missed the Jimmy Hill years. Since then saw us come 6th and get into Europe and win the cup. Apart from that we came 7th with Ferguson and Wallace banging them in and 10th under Strachan despite not winning away once all season. I...

How things change. A couple of days ago I drove through the tight, terraced streets at the back of the old West End (never, for me 'West Terrace'), scene of many a running battle in the early 70s. How I loved the West End then, the packed Cov mob behind the goal, the away fans a gangway away...

I have often wondered why managers don't challenge the fines imposed on them for speaking their minds. They are duty bound to do press interviews while the blood is hot then get totally disproportionate and eye watering fines for doing just that, and often just for telling the truth about...

All about proportionality, big differences in nature of tackles and big differences in pitch invasions. Fan runs on is automatically committing an offence and risks a ban but good natured celebration of a goal is a world away from kicking off. If the fan tried to take a selfie the goalkeeper...

So, as Duncan Bannatyne might say, here's where I am. I'm 53. I first went to HR in 1969 with my Dad, whose last game before he succumbed to cancer was the goodbye to HR. Was a season ticket holder for years. I have a 14 year old lad who at first supported Arsenal. I let him but quietly ensured...

Roger van Gool, Larry Lloyd, Dave Jones, Gary Collier, Isais, Ian St John, Tim Sherwood, Paul Culpin, John Gayle, Eric McManus, Michael McIndoe, Chris Coleman, Peter Reid, Craig Bellamy, Dean Holdsworth, David Rennie, Keith O'Neil, there's a list of particularly useless wastes of time and money...

This Evans and McDonalds evidence! And if you and anyone else don't like the thread then read something else or go off and design cathedrals or something rather than arrogantly calling an end to a debate others find worthy of comment.

Can you not see that I don't believe a word he says? I am quoting his own website to demonstrate the absurdity of his defence and those whose weasel 'Devils advocate' defence of him demeans them.

A few 'facts' from Evans' website are very enlightening. He had booked a hotel room for McDonald, not for himself as he was to sleep where he usually did. They went out on it together with Evans' brother and another couple of friends. Evans later told police that as professional footballers...

There were only three people in that hotel room. Two of them, Evans and his mate, know what happened. The third, the girl, may or may not know. The point is that the jury came to the conclusion that she didn't have the capacity to consent to sex with Evans. It appears that she didn't have a...

Also remember a mental West End in the previous round against Watford which we won 5 - 0. When we scored one goal I was towards the back to the left of the goalmouth and when the celebrations ended I was down by the right corner flag. Away at West Ham went with two mates in a car. Inside the...

If Fisher or Waggot told you the cheque was in the post would you believe them? If Fisher or Waggot told you they loved you would you believe them? If Fisher or Waggot told you they wouldn't come in your mouth would you believe them? Yet some are prepared to swallow just about...

I seem to recall the season we were relegated from the Premier League Gary McAllister commented that he saw the writing on the wall in the pre season friendly with Benfica. I think his words were "I knew we were in trouble". I agree that it is too early for panic but I would prefer a great...