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Andy Street looking forward to seeing Coventry "Sky Blue" (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter Nick
  • Start date Jan 6, 2020
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Nick

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #1

What a dickhead, fresh from the Wasps match yesterday doing his bit for "Coventry" as well.

Does he have a clue?
 
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torchomatic

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #2
What a joke. He hasn't a clue, has he?
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #3
When you read the article it gets worse - they try and say coventry blue is an association with Coventry going back hundreds of years and the football club barely gets a mention
 

Nick

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #4
Imagine if he used his position to actually make the city Sky Blue rather than having his freebie hospitality days at Wasps.
 

jordan210

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #5
Grendel said:
When you read the article it gets worse - they try and say coventry blue is an association with Coventry going back hundreds of years and the football club barely gets a mention
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Arnt the civic colours red and green ?

Looking at historical football kits we played in sky-blue for a bit but mainly dark blue in the early years
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #6
jordan210 said:
Arnt the civic colours red and green ?
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I believe so yes. Even when they mention blue in a modern context it’s not just football shirts but some blue thing on some island.
 

ajsccfc

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #7
Between Wasps' target practice and Andy's tweet, people seem to really enjoy the taste of their own feet. Fucking hell
 

chiefdave

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #8
This has to be a deliberate piss take. No way nobody didn't pick up on this.
Moving is a word often associated with Coventry ... Moving Blue is our very own shade and will be visible all over Coventry in the next year
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Have to laugh at the attempt to use blue in Coventry but not link it with the football club known worldwide as the Sky Blues!
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #9
chiefdave said:
This has to be a deliberate piss take. No way nobody didn't pick up on this.

Have to laugh at the attempt to use blue in Coventry but not link it with the football club known worldwide as the Sky Blues!
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As the article states the links between the City and the colour predate the club by some time. There was a “Coventry Blue” but no one knows what it was.

The “moving” bit is a piss take though. If the best you can do is “transport and immigrants innit” you can do better. Why not just call it Coventry Blue 2020 or some bollocks?
 

clint van damme

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #10
against my better judgment I was just starting to warm to him even though he is a tory c**t. I won't make that mistake again.
 
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Nick

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #11
clint van damme said:
against my better judgment I was just starting to warm to him even though he is a tory c**t. I won't make that mistake again.
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He will get you

 
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Grendel

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #12
shmmeee said:
As the article states the links between the City and the colour predate the club by some time. There was a “Coventry Blue” but no one knows what it was.

The “moving” bit is a piss take though. If the best you can do is “transport and immigrants innit” you can do better. Why not just call it Coventry Blue 2020 or some bollocks?
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I think if Coventry were playing in Coventry the main reference would be the football team not an obscure little known fact that barely gets a mention on google
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #13
shmmeee said:
As the article states the links between the City and the colour predate the club by some time. There was a “Coventry Blue” but no one knows what it was.

The “moving” bit is a piss take though. If the best you can do is “transport and immigrants innit” you can do better. Why not just call it Coventry Blue 2020 or some bollocks?
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Civic colours are red and green due to separation of Coventry into areas controlled by either the Earl or the Bishop - hence why you've got two big curches in Trinity and St Michael's next door to each other.

Coventry Blue (or True Blue) is from the medieval dyeing and weaving industry as a cloth that was renowned for its ability to retain it's colour rather than fade or wash out. Personally i'd have much preferred True Blue as our nickname than Sky Blue)
 
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the rumpo kid

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #14
The saying" true as Coventry blue" was also used in one of the episodes of last season's walking dead , just saying like.
 
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crowsnest

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #15
He's delete the original tweet and reposted it to remove all the comments
 

Kneeza

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #16
Oddly, Jeremy Spencer(ex Fleetwood Mac) released an album called Coventry Blue in 2014.
 

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jordan210

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #17
Heres the new one

 

Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #18
Nick said:
He will get you

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Remind me what this was from. I know it made me chuckle when I first saw it!
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #19
Grendel said:
When you read the article it gets worse - they try and say coventry blue is an association with Coventry going back hundreds of years and the football club barely gets a mention
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That is correct, Coventry True Blue was an apparent ribbon made here, but nobody knows what shade of blue it is. Obviously the football club and the rugby club both are most obviously associated with blue in Coventry. To not mention that is criminal.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #20
Why did Hill choose sky blue and not true blue? Seems an obvious choice.
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #21
shmmeee said:
Why did Hill choose sky blue and not true blue? Seems an obvious choice.
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Dear me
 

Covkid1968#

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #22
shmmeee said:
As the article states the links between the City and the colour predate the club by some time. There was a “Coventry Blue” but no one knows what it was.

The “moving” bit is a piss take though. If the best you can do is “transport and immigrants innit” you can do better. Why not just call it Coventry Blue 2020 or some bollocks?
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Goes back 100s of years when the city had a worthwhile industry..... doesn’t true blue come from the recognised blue dye that Was used in the City. I have read that somewhere
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #23
shmmeee said:
Why did Hill choose sky blue and not true blue? Seems an obvious choice.
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Not sure. Maybe as he was trying something different it was 'Blue Sky' thinking and he took it from there.
 

The Great Eastern

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #24
Sky Blue Harry H said:
Remind me what this was from. I know it made me chuckle when I first saw it!
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When the video first hit social media, the guy was reportedly a Lest*h fan getting faux aggressive. Repeatedly said 'd'ya want some, do ya ?'. Turned out he is actually a Wealdstone fan who play in blue shirts.
 
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theferret

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #25
What's the issue here? Think I'm missing something. The idea is to celebrate the city's history and association with the colour blue, from 'Coventry Blue' to Sky Blue, and the official 2021 video features the football club heavily. What was the issue withe original tweet?

 

Nick

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #26
theferret said:
What's the issue here? Think I'm missing something. The idea is to celebrate the city's history and association with the colour blue, from 'Coventry Blue' to Sky Blue, and the official 2021 video features the football club heavily. What was the issue withe original tweet?

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He was on about making Coventry sky blue.... Bet he has no idea about the football club.
 

Otis

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #27
shmmeee said:
As the article states the links between the City and the colour predate the club by some time. There was a “Coventry Blue” but no one knows what it was.

The “moving” bit is a piss take though. If the best you can do is “transport and immigrants innit” you can do better. Why not just call it Coventry Blue 2020 or some bollocks?
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Agree. There is definitely 'Coventry Blue' and it dates back hundreds of years I believe, so a bit unfair to suggest there is merely an attempt to link the colour. That they are try to suggest. I have always known of Coventry Blue.

The football club should be very high on the agenda for the plan though for sure.
 
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Warwickhunt

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #28
Nick said:
He was on about making Coventry sky blue.... Bet he has no idea about the football club.
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Going to Paint the RICOH blue then so it can be seen off the Motorway LOL
 
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Hobo

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #29
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Civic colours are red and green due to separation of Coventry into areas controlled by either the Earl or the Bishop - hence why you've got two big curches in Trinity and St Michael's next door to each other.

Coventry Blue (or True Blue) is from the medieval dyeing and weaving industry as a cloth that was renowned for its ability to retain it's colour rather than fade or wash out. Personally i'd have much preferred True Blue as our nickname than Sky Blue)
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Correct. Nice to know some know the history of the City aside from Lady Godiva and the Blitz.
 
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oldfiver

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #30
shmmeee said:
Why did Hill choose sky blue and not true blue? Seems an obvious choice.
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Quite simple - JH said sky blue showed up better under floodlights or in the murk
 
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JimmyHillsbeard

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  • Jan 6, 2020
  • #31
the rumpo kid said:
The saying" true as Coventry blue" was also used in one of the episodes of last season's walking dead , just saying like.
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Really? Would have thought this wd have got a mention on the TWD thread
 

Irish Sky Blue

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  • Jan 7, 2020
  • #32
shmmeee said:
Why did Hill choose sky blue and not true blue? Seems an obvious choice.
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I think the name ‘The Sky Blues’ was first coined by Derek Henderson in a match report in the Telegraph after watching the team play a pre season friendly against Birmingham at St Andrews in the new all Sky blue kit. We won 2-1 and both the team and the kit impressed.
 

Brylowes

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  • Jan 7, 2020
  • #33
I’ve heard references to “as true as Coventry blue” as an indication of quality, longevity
And trustworthiness, apparently it stems from the dye made and used in the early Cloth
and Ribbon weaving that used to be a major industry in Coventry hundreds of years ago
predominantly the Spon End and Foleshill areas.
Watch and Clock making was also something that Coventry was once famous for ‘don’t
Know if that is of any significance in the use of the word “Moving “ as in constantly moving
And evolving through time, probably more to do with the City’s long established links to
The transport industry.
Whatever it’s all about I just hope that common sense prevails and the “Skyblues” are
back where they belong in time to contribute too ‘and take part in what could and should
Be a year that gives the whole City a much needed lift.
If they’re not....I for one will find the whole thing pretty underwhelming.
 
Last edited: Jan 7, 2020
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