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    Your desired away kit

    The only REAL CCFC away kit is green and black stripes. It's unique and has history. And they could wheel out the 1970s brown one for special occasions. Or a laugh.
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    Name theft in progress.

    I reckon it's just journalistic/commentator laziness. Anyone with an ounce of football history knows that our official nickname is the Sky Blues and they're the Citizens. As long as you don't look back too far - I think we were the Bantams or the Peeping Toms before Jimmy Hill rebranded the...
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    Hardly an auspicious return

    Oh yes, real beer. mmmmmmm real beeerrrrrr...... And, sorry about the Swindon/Bristol slip-up. I realised not long after (dooohhhh!!!). Still, both play in red and separated by just a few miles of M4. Anyway, that's what comes of trying to recall fixture lists from memory!
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    Hardly an auspicious return

    It's not easy being a Sky Blue on the other side of the world. A couple of years ago, we started getting "The Football League Show" on Sky, so that for the first time in years I could see my team on the telly and find out what the chaps playing for us looked like. I'd just got the handle on...
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    Does anyone else not like using the word Cov...

    Never used Cov myself - it tends to be written shorthand by supporters of other teams, in my experience. The only time I've heard it spoken was when I was called a "Cov C**t" by some Brighton supporters after watching a fairly uninspired game at the Goldstone ground in the early 80s. I gave him...
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    What City memories bring a smile to your face?

    Travelling to Anfield towards the end of the 1983/84 season to see us go down 5-0, but we outsang the kop for 90 minutes, and continued afterwards while awaiting the police escort out of the ground. I took a QPR supporter and a Man U supporter (our driver from London was a Red at the other...
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