skybluelee
Well-Known Member
Did we officially give them the WT or did their fans just infiltrate it? The whole stand goes up when they score and it just looks very very wrong.
They probably had nearly three quarters of the ground that day, it was mental. We were on the Kop and there were loads in there as well!
Think we got offered £50People outside were selling their their season ticket stubs for 40 or 50 quid.
I remember considering flogging my 4 quid Passport to Leisure Kop ticket but didn’t!
Think we got offered £50
Can't let this slide. I'm intrigued what did you do?You can see Cov fans saying stuff - I have to say I think i'd be doing more than that...I wasn't at the game as I was in a 3 year forced break from football.
Every club at that time struggled to fill their groundsNot sure if it’s my memory playing tricks but this seemed to happen every time we played them in the late 80s and early 90s.
Of course those where they days where even for big games we struggled to fill the ground.
If you would have said back then we’d be getting bigger crowds in the second every club tier people would have thought you were crazy.
I remember a reserve fixture against Man U around 1993/94. Traditionally only the main stand would be open but both tiers of West stand were also for this one.There used to be a load of teenage girls with Man U scarves attend the games at the height of Ryan Giggs/ David Beckham mania.
Although they could have been there for Oggy, who knows
Compounded by a large Irish population in the city at the time who were just as likely to support Man U, Liverpool, or Arsenal as Coventry. Where I used to live, my next door neighbour was from Westport in Ireland and said that at in late 60’s, the block we lived on of around 30 properties only had one non-Irish family living there. Must’ve been quite the party, but few swapped football allegiances to Coventry from the teams they historically followed. Numbers of Irish (third generation and beyond) have dwindled, but you only have to visit Canley cemetery to realise the massive influence Ireland has had on the city. 30-40% of the graves there appear to have Irish roots.
It’s not just the natural immigration, the siblings and subsequent offspring who identify as Irish could quite easily represent 30% of the population into the 80’s and 90’s.Not sure it had any real impact that day. It was a bit of a one off. It was a bank holiday iirc and United fans travelled from all over. It was the days pre ticket controls and the internet, and people were paying silly money. I was approached a couple of times on the walk from the elastic and offered crazy money for my ticket (for the time anyway). One Scottish fella got quite aggressive.
On a side note, the influx of Irish was significant post war, but not perhaps as much as people think, added around 35K to the population between end of 1950s and 1970. Coventry's big population boom was from 1900 to just before the war, it almost tripled in size.
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