I hate to be that person but... He did.
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But there are some players who have zero ability apparently.
To be fair to the defence they have been pretty good of late its just the lack of goals thats killing us, I would imagine theres tension building in the players thinking "we mustn't make a mistake because we cannot score many/any" and individual errors because of tension is a catch 22. Score goals releive tension enjoy playing and winning
When?
Obituary: - Jimmy Hill 1928 - 2015 - Coventry City historian Jim Brown documents Hill's Sky Blue success
The City club historian pays tribute to the great man who lead Coventry City down the path of success...
Jimmy resigned on the eve of the club's debut in the First Division, to become Head of Sport for London Weekend Television. The news was a bombshell to both the supporters and players alike but his mind was made up. He later revealed that if Derrick Robins had met his request for a ten-year contract he would have stayed. After the impact he had on the club, many feel that it was a tragedy that Jimmy never took the opportunity to test his abilities at the highest level. Whether he would have been a success or not will never be known.
Hill - player, manager & game changer
Jimmy Hill - the Match of the Day host who has a lasting legacy in English football as we know it today.
The manager: In charge at Coventry from 1961 to 1967, winning promotion twice but never managing in the top flight.
That is correct, he handed over to Noel Cantwell, at the Spurs game at Highfield Road on the pitch.
Both him and Biamou are out of contract, if we stay up both will be let go, I’m sure.
I don’t believe that managers in those days paid much attention to such win percentages and would he have been overly concerned with such a statistic when he was leaving the front line to go to another industry albeit covering football?
There is a bit of background to Cantwells appointment. He was Captain of Manchester United up to and including their league Championship win in 67, a few months before he joined us and was keen to go into management. He was part of the West Ham team with John Bond and Malcolm Allison and Frank O’Farrell who all become famous Managers(Cantwell was Bobby Moore’s best man) and had been asked by Busby to stay on at Old Trafford and replace him on his retirement. He felt that would be a long time away and decided to join us to replace Jimmy Hill, who he had replaced as chairman of the PFA when Hill joined us. It was Hill who recommended Cantwell and that was one reason why he stayed on and introduced Cantwell to the crowd to smooth the way as his successor.
Apparently he was looked at when Busby did retire after coming back when McGuiness was fired. They decided on Frank O Farrell but it was suggested that Cantwell had turned it down, no dea if that was the case, with us going in to Europe.
Once Cantwell was in place it took us until 16th December to win a game, the 5-1 thrashing of Burnley which coincided with the return of Bobby Gould, who scored three,to the team then we had three wins on the trot in end of Jan/ February and then four more wins by mid April but didn’t win in the last five games. Squeaky bum time.
'They'...what a bunch of b@stards
We were also called Noel Can'twin and the Easybeats
That's exactly as it was, and know matter who it was the manager to kick of the post j. H era was cursed with our expected success which after our euro games upto the 87 sillet side never got off to further success.
I don’t remember it like that. My memory is that we used to chant ‘Noel, Noel, that is the name of our Manager Cantwell.’ The opposition fans would reply ‘that is the name of that bastard Cantwell’.
I remember it like that. I think it was only after he was sacked that the alternate version was sung by some City fans for a while.