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That game seems like yesterday - it's the great finish by Micky Adams that I remember most clearly. Am I right in thinking that it was a very early kick-off - I seem to recall enjoying Sunday lunch far more than usual afterwards? btw "Pre-match entertainment" has changed a bit. Macca - you're...

I’m not an expert, and a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing as I frequently demonstrate on here :) But I think the Local Plan allocates sites/zones for particular land uses, without going into the detail that would be contained in an actual planning application. So yes, I think if CCFC...

The Planning Portal says "You don't actually need to own land to apply for planning permission for it. This means you can apply for permission before deciding whether or not to buy a piece of land". So I don't think ownership should influence the allocation of land uses in the Local Plan...

Blimey, this relates to the original post! I’ll bet ccfc92 has had some good laughs in the last week, having merely said “Thoughts?”. If the intention to build a stadium is real, anything resembling an actual commitment is quite transparently being delayed ad nauseam, as long as there remains...

Most of that rings true for me. It’s a sorry tale of incompetence whichever way you look at it. Personally, I never did ridicule Fisher’s claims that ACL needed CCFC. I always felt the Council were bending the truth as a defence against the distressing that was going on. It’s only natural...

You’re right, which makes it all the more galling. The terms of the buy-back formula were probably steep, but that was a natural consequence of the Council and Higgs having to bail out CCFC’s project in the first place. And when SISU took over, surely that formula was part of the overall deal...

Come on – over a long period of time Joy & Tim made clear that they only wanted ACL with all the loans and contracts swept away for them. It was never on, which is why we lost out to another party prepared to negotiate more sensibly. To avoid any doubt, from the day SISU took over I wanted...

City’s chief executive, Tim Fisher, insists they do not regret failing to buy the Ricoh, saying they could not agree to taking it on, as Wasps have done, not only for £5.4m but with the council’s £14m loan on the stadium still to pay...

Of course I’d have a right to complain! I said Wasps shouldn’t have left London, but they did and it was the resulting mess that turned them into a franchise. CCFC fans would be united in uproar, unlike Wasps followers who were divided because of the nature of their club’s situation, and...

I get what you are saying, but you misread me – I don’t pretend it’s not a franchise. I think it’s a franchise that has brought big sport to Coventry, and I’m not prepared to get on a high horse and tell people they are wrong to enjoy it, or say that the city should have turned down the...

I remember that game, even though I was a kid. In my mind’s eye, I can see Georgie Best dribbling and being tackled by Chris Cattlin probably 5 yards from where I was standing. At Highfield Road in those days we saw some of football’s greatest ever stars at close quarters – how lucky can you...

The same false argument is trotted out multiple times every day. You know – anyone who opposed Sixfields is a total hypocrite if they don’t take a moral stand against Wasps. Or if you can live with the Wasps move you’re “by definition” in favour of franchises and you’d have to support CCFC...

People have been posting for months about the evils of Wasps moving, and I assumed it was out of respect for the traditional Wasps fans, and sorrow for how they had been mistreated. But I was obviously wrong, because on this thread the same people are mercilessly taking the piss out of them and...

He was very good in some games in the Championship, and I remember he came on in the FA Cup match at Spurs, and looked like the only player in our squad who could hold his own against Premier League opposition. It's so disappointing that he seems to have gone backwards since then, and I find it...

I agree with most on here that this is a big blow. Regardless of who provides the actual assists and goals, Maddison has the confidence on the ball to give us good possession in the opponents’ half, and in his absence at Walsall we didn’t have enough of that. I’m hoping this gives Fleck, who...

I was proud of the whole team tonight, and it seems like many a long year since I could say that. I’d actually forgotten what entertainment even felt like. If I had to give special praise, it would be for Fleck (he’s always had the skill, so why couldn’t he attain this level of fitness...

The 77-78 season was brilliant entertainment, basically playing 3-3-4 and abandoning any pretence of defending. We missed out on Europe by a whisker, and if I’m not mistaken we scored 75 and conceded 76! Some of the wins were indeed among the best performances in the club’s history. On the...

Can’t agree with that – our 87 team was without doubt among the best in the country at the time. We played superbly well in the league that season, and won the FA Cup purely on merit. It was fully deserved and no fluke.

A match report in the Pink once said something like … “and moments later City were unlucky not to draw level when Cross hooked a shit just over”.

Nick - the site is normally pretty fast and reliable, but occasionally it will seem to pause for about 45 seconds. When that happens I always imagine you stopping your pedalling, wiping your brow, taking a few swigs from a tin of cold lager and then typing in a few quick rhetorical questions on...