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  • Thread starter Cov kid 55
  • Start date Nov 29, 2021
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Cov kid 55

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  • Nov 29, 2021
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Jimmy Hill appointed to the Manager position at CCFC. And so it began……. Photograph on the City website.
 
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Houchens Head

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  • Nov 29, 2021
  • #2
I'd like to say I remember the day, but I was only 8 at the time and being dragged up in a convent in Birmingham!
 
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Cov kid 55

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  • Nov 29, 2021
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Yes, I was 5, so it somewhat passed me by… Where’s Capel and Collindridge when you need a memory?
 

slowpoke

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  • Nov 29, 2021
  • #4
First season supporting Cov & just old enough to read the back pages of the telegraph big news of Billy Frith being sacked along with trainer Alf Wood and Jimmy Hill being appointed didn’t have a clue who he was at the time, the old man wasn’t very impressed smart arse from London according to him, dad was a northerner and according to him all Londoners were smart arses.
 

CDK

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  • Nov 29, 2021
  • #5
Cov kid 55 said:
Yes, I was 5, so it somewhat passed me by… Where’s Capel and Collindridge when you need a memory?
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And me too
 

Old Warwickshire lad

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  • Nov 29, 2021
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When it all started for me. Dad took me to night game V Milwall I think . Half time tea in an enamel mug, and a steak pie that seemed bigger than me.
And what I remember most is listening to Telstar by the tornadoes on the tanoy.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Nov 29, 2021
  • #7
Warwickshire lad said:
When it all started for me. Dad took me to night game V Milwall I think . Half time tea in an enamel mug, and a steak pie that seemed bigger than me.
And what I remember most is listening to Telstar by the tornadoes on the tanoy.
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Thoes where the day's and only 2 bob to get in.
 
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rob9872

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  • Nov 29, 2021
  • #8
slowpoke said:
First season supporting Cov & just old enough to read the back pages of the telegraph big news of Billy Frith being sacked along with trainer Alf Wood and Jimmy Hill being appointed didn’t have a clue who he was at the time, the old man wasn’t very impressed smart arse from London according to him, dad was a northerner and according to him all Londoners were smart arses.
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Tbf he had a point
 

Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Nov 30, 2021
  • #9
Cov kid 55 said:
Yes, I was 5, so it somewhat passed me by… Where’s Capel and Collindridge when you need a memory?
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Old fucker ...I was 2
 

bawtryneal

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  • Nov 30, 2021
  • #10
Torquay Sky Blue said:
Old fucker ...I was 2
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You old fucker........... I was only 11 months
 
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Old Warwickshire lad

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  • Nov 30, 2021
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bawtryneal said:
You old fucker........... I was only 11 months
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Sprog
 
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