Anyone have any big regrets when it comes to the City? (26 Viewers)

[Terry Gibson's perm]

That the second leg against St Mirren never got played.

Also that we never got to play in Europe although I was only 13 and it was a time of trouble I am sure my dad would have taken me somewhere, if we get promoted this year a European run at some point would be lovely.

 

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[Covkid1968#]

Taking the top flight for granted last time around

Yes this!! Had a season ticket but was just expected us to always be there. didnt bother with some games and then spent most of the game tormenting the away fans.

 

[Old Warwickshire lad]

Starting supporting them!

Haha we have all had that one over the years.

 

[CovValleyBoy]

I was just thinking back and the one big regret for me was not watching the Sky Blues beat Bayern Munich, when we qualified for Europe that one time.

It was 1970 and I was still a young kid.

We had beaten Trakia Plovdiv in the first round.

We had played them away in the first leg in Bulgaria and beat them 4-1 and then at home, for the second leg we beat them 2-0. I was there for that game.

The next round we were drawn against the very mighty Bayern Munich!

We played them away in the first leg and we went to Germany and got thumped 6-1 and our keeper, Eric McManus, had a complete mare and was apparently responsible for a number of their goals.

So, it came to the home leg and I just couldn't bring myself to go. I was so distraught after we had lost 6-1 against them in that first leg and I felt I just couldn't go, knowing we were already knocked out.

Anyway, they came here and we actually beat them 2-1. A fabulous achievement.

Have always kicked myself since that I didn't go. We beat one of the best teams in Europe 2-1!

Big regret for me.

I saw us beat Trakia & Bayern ( West Germany ).
My regret. Old man not taking me to the The Cov Wolves match. "Dad , what were you thinking" !!?

 

[Calista]

Went to to the Cup Final. My Dad got a ticket from a guy at his pub. Cost £45 for the £6 ticket. Not sure what that is in today's money.

£178.40

 

[Mr Panda]

Missing that George Thomas goal because I'm a slow drinker

 

[Calista]

That is pretty mental!

So say you went to about 15x home games on which the average attendance was about 16k, yet you still missed out when we took 50k to Wembley?

How does that work?

Pretty sure we didn't take anything like 50k to Wembley in 87. I expect someone on here will know the real figure, but then (as now) large numbers of tickets were reserved for hangers-on.

I remember a famous actor on a talk show saying he wasn't really interested in football, but "I always go to the Cup Final".

 

[SBAndy]

Regret is too strong a word for it given its personal circumstance, but not getting to any away games so far this season because the weekend is the only meaningful time I get with my 1 year old.

 

[Calista]

Missing that George Thomas goal because I'm a slow drinker

You and many thousands of others as I recall

 

[Mucca Mad Boys]

I was playing sports on Saturdays during the L2 and L1 days so missed out on a lot of good away days.

 

[shmmeee]

Didn’t go to the Man Utd semi. Dad couldn’t make it and kids didn’t want to go and I thought we’d get beat which we did but missed a hell of a day regardless.

 

[rob9872]

We started going from November after I told my lad we weren't going. In the October HT he'd done a SBITC thing at St Nicks and they all got two free tickets to a game. We chose Notts County, won 3-0. Got a ST then for the rest of the season.

Don't regret it and never got the anger aimed at attendees from fellow fans. The anger should have been aimed at the Club hierarchy, not fans who simply wanted to support their team.

Different situation with kids tbh. My daughter wasn't interested really back then, but we had season tickets after they returned and by Birmingham, no way could we not go (although I do think the reasons for going there were different and blame the council/Wasps more than SISU for that one). If I'd not gone to Birmingham, I could have lost her as a supporter as she wouldn't have understood the decision, just that we weren't going and who knows how the last few years would have gone.

 

[Joe King]

I was just thinking back and the one big regret for me was not watching the Sky Blues beat Bayern Munich, when we qualified for Europe that one time.

It was 1970 and I was still a young kid.

We had beaten Trakia Plovdiv in the first round.

We had played them away in the first leg in Bulgaria and beat them 4-1 and then at home, for the second leg we beat them 2-0. I was there for that game.

The next round we were drawn against the very mighty Bayern Munich!

We played them away in the first leg and we went to Germany and got thumped 6-1 and our keeper, Eric McManus, had a complete mare and was apparently responsible for a number of their goals.

So, it came to the home leg and I just couldn't bring myself to go. I was so distraught after we had lost 6-1 against them in that first leg and I felt I just couldn't go, knowing we were already knocked out.

Anyway, they came here and we actually beat them 2-1. A fabulous achievement.

Have always kicked myself since that I didn't go. We beat one of the best teams in Europe 2-1!

Big regret for me.

I was at the return leg when we won!

 

[MAFF]

Not going to Notts County PO semi second leg at Meadow Lane.

Had a ticket in my basket and everything.Was a skint student at the time and just couldn’t make it work

 

[robbiethemole]

Not going to Old Trafford in 2007

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and me, it was Mrs mole's birthday and we weren't allowed out!! hahahha

 

[CC_Si]

My Dad dying in November 2024 (3 days before Robins was sacked!) and subsequently missing all of this. He'd been to about 900 Cov matches, at least half of them with me, and this season is better than anything he ever got to see. He deserved to see this, and I wish I was seeing it with him!

 

[duffer]

My only regret is that we left HR.

Not because of the CBS as a stadium, but because its location meant that the Saturday routine of meet in a pub before the game, then a pint in Strikers afterwards and a slow stumble back through a few more pubs towards town, all had to change.

I've changed too I guess, and I don't drink anything like as much these days, but I do miss the laughs, and how easy it seemed to be compared to the current experience.

It is what it is, of course, and now the ground is actually ours it's starting to feel a bit more like home. There will, of course, be a whole new generation who can remember nothing else, and have nothing but brilliant memories of the CBS, which is exactly the way it should be.

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Missed our opening game at the Ricoh as booked a family holiday the year before
Missed the return to Ricoh as was away on kayaking trip with lads
April 11th this year - Sons stag do abroad - probably likely we could get promotion that day and will miss the celebrations - I am hoping for the game after

 

[torchomatic]

£178.40

Blimey. My Dad paid for it anyway!

 

[KNSB]

Having no interest in football until 1988...

Can distinctly remember a 6 year old me being completely uninterested in the cup final.

 

[JSL]

Having my new home shirt stickered up with Dion Dublin's name and number for him to be sold a few days later. I felt so deflated

 

[torchomatic]

Cleaning the garage out.

Miss season ticket books.

 

[Otis]

Never standing in the West End, Dad wouldn't let me go in, he felt i was too young.
I used to look over the rail in the family stand above with envy, or watch from "The Crow's Nest".
Sleep tight Dad, I love you, recently passed , Thanks for the memories and giving me the life long gift of CCFC.

Not surprised he didn't let you go into the West End.

Not with your having that username.

 

[alexccfc99]

Having my new home shirt stickered up with Dion Dublin's name and number for him to be sold a few days later. I felt so deflated

I saved all my pocket money up to get the 06/07 shirt with McSheffrey's name on the back and we sold him to Blues a couple weeks into the season

 

[torchomatic]

Having my new home shirt stickered up with Dion Dublin's name and number only for him to force a move by refusing to play a few days later. I felt so deflated

Corrected.

 

[Otis]

Another very small regret, has been my buying CCFC calendars in the past.

Think I only did it twice and on both occasions by the time I got to half way through the year, more than half the players would no longer be with the club.

 

[skybluelee]

Not buying a ton load of 97/98 shirts at the time and now flogging them on FB.

 

[skybluelee]

Having my new home shirt stickered up with Dion Dublin's name and number for him to be sold a few days later. I felt so deflated

Took my mum hours to remove his name off my shirt with a very hot iron, a damp tea towel and a butter knife.

Love you, mum. x

 

[skybluelee]

ps I would have got his replacement's name instead but unfortunately we signed Darren fucking Jackson to wear number 9 so I just left it.

 

[Travs]

My only regret is that we left HR.

Not because of the CBS as a stadium, but because its location meant that the Saturday routine of meet in a pub before the game, then a pint in Strikers afterwards and a slow stumble back through a few more pubs towards town, all had to change.

I've changed too I guess, and I don't drink anything like as much these days, but I do miss the laughs, and how easy it seemed to be compared to the current experience.

It is what it is, of course, and now the ground is actually ours it's starting to feel a bit more like home. There will, of course, be a whole new generation who can remember nothing else, and have nothing but brilliant memories of the CBS, which is exactly the way it should be.

We've now been at the Ricoh for well over half my days as a city fan.... but still Highfield Road will always be home.

Just couldn't get behind being enthusiastic about a new stadium named after a photocopier..... and no matter what people say, its an off-the-shelf bowl stadium like many others.

(that said, i fully appreciate the matchday experience has clearly vastly improved, along with atmosphere..... and there's an entire generation of fans who only know the Ricoh/CBS and football outside of the top division)

At the time, leaving Highfield Road felt worse than the relegation at Villa.

 

[Senior Vick from Alicante]

The young fans we lost with all the shit SISU took us through. They are the life blood of a football club and the management did so much to piss them off and turn them to rival teams.

 

[JSL]

ps I would have got his replacement's name instead but unfortunately we signed Darren fucking Jackson to wear number 9 so I just left it.

I am never getting caught out like that again. My latest shirt that was a Xmas present has my own name on which even grates me

 

[wantageskyblue]

That the second leg against St Mirren never got played.

Also that we never got to play in Europe although I was only 13 and it was a time of trouble I am sure my dad would have taken me somewhere, if we get promoted this year a European run at some point would be lovely.

Same here, was young, free and single back then and would have gone to St Mirren and wherever we were to play in Europe.

 

[Calista]

Blimey. My Dad paid for it anyway!

I'm sure he was more than pleased and proud to do that - priceless.

 

[Cov98]

Got a ticket for the play off final against Luton, but I live in Ireland and the flight over, price of accommodation and the fact the London Marathon (I think?) was on at the same time meant I started giving it second thoughts because even if I stayed with family down near Rugby, travel into London would've been a disaster.

Definitely should've forked up the extortionate money to stay in London but hey ho.