Most Satisfying Victory (1 Viewer)

[TrueSkyBlueLiam]

We finally got them guys! After 10 long years, we've finally halted the railway men at our station. The last time we celebrated a home victory over Crewe was back in 2005 at our beloved Highfield Road. So it's fair to say last night was a very satisfying and relieving win. So for this week's Cooks Question, i want to know your most satisfying victories. I know the Cup final will be up there, but im sure they will be some surprising answers. For me, it's Walsall away 2013/14. That was my first away victory. I also remember going with my family to watch City take on Leicester a few years ago, before i became a season ticket holder. Cant remember what year it was but City win, and as many of you know, my mum and brother are Leicester fans, while myself and my dad are CCFC fans, so as you can expect, it was a highly satisfying day. So what about you? What was your most satisfying victory? Doesnt have to be a Coventry game or a football game. Anything that meant a lot to you. Let us know. Sports Lounge kicks off at 10am Thursday on 98.6 Hillz FM. If you cant get a signal, you can tune in via www.hillzfm.co.uk or the Tune In Radio App. The show will be uploaded to mixcloud (www.mixcloud.com/hillzfm) on Friday so you can here it whenever you want. Thanks for your brilliant support. The show wouldn't be what it is today without you guys

 

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[Sky Blue Pete]

Mine has to be the 5-2 away win at Blackburn in Micky Quinn's days. About 100 fans going ape!

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

4-1 Villa park as a 8 year old kid sat in the Villa end that day will forever stick with me!

 

[stay_up_skyblues]

Dumping Utd out of the league cup at old Trafford in front of a 10,000 strong city faithful.

obvious choice but put in to perspective that night was something truly special given the respective clubs positions.

 

[Silence_Is_The_Enemy]

away would have been the 4-2 win at west brom just a great game, at our place preston in the jpt another team who have always been a pain in our arse and to score 2 late to drop them 3-2 was just incredible.

 

[Albo]

One that sticks in the memory was beating Man City in the early 80's 3 - 1, when Peter Bodak scored a beauty. Wow that was some time ago. It was a totally unexpected result in front of only a few hundred Cov fans. I remember Feeling 10 feet tall afterwards.

 

[Johhny Blue]

Trakia Plovdiv. 1st ever European game. Went thinking a 1-0 loss would set us up for the home leg and a 2-0 loss wouldn't be a disaster. Ended up winning 4-1

 

[PVA]

In the League One years, either of the MK Dons away wins. Maguire's free kicks!!

 

[chiefdave]

This one for me, cracking night stood on the kop.[video=youtube_share;9SGxAc9QMiE]https://youtu.be/9SGxAc9QMiE[/video]

 

[chiefdave]

4-1 Villa park as a 8 year old kid sat in the Villa end that day will forever stick with me!

That games on youtube as well:

[video=youtube_share;A5Hip0BeaAo]https://youtu.be/A5Hip0BeaAo[/video]

 

[Grendel]

One that sticks in the memory was beating Man City in the early 80's 3 - 1, when Peter Bodak scored a beauty. Wow that was some time ago. It was a totally unexpected result in front of only a few hundred Cov fans. I remember Feeling 10 feet tall afterwards.

Yeah 100% that for me.

 

[skybluetony176]

4-1 Villa park as a 8 year old kid sat in the Villa end that day will forever stick with me!

Same here. Although I was 28 not 8 at the time. I was in the Doug Ellis stand and as near the away end as I could get. As always our traveling fans were superb and we weren't the only Cov fans in disguise in the home ends either. I remember every time we scored several people jumped up and celebrated, then the stewards arrived and escorted them out. By the time the forth went in I think it was only Cov fans left in the section of the Doug Ellis stand that I was in because everyone jumped up cheering and there was no one left in the stand wearing anything with a Villa logo or reference on. The stewards didn't bother coming in and throwing anyone out either. A great day to be a Cov fan.

 

[BackRoomRummermill]

When we beat Everton to Stay up in the mid 80's

 

[BlueElephant]

away would have been the 4-2 win at west brom just a great game, at our place preston in the jpt another team who have always been a pain in our arse and to score 2 late to drop them 3-2 was just incredible.

That 4-2 win at West Brom was something else. Mowbray's side had beat us 4-0 and 5-0 and the Ricoh that season and to stuff them at their place was very special indeed :claping hands:

Plus all of our fans doing the 'Boing Boing' was fantastic.

 

[rupert_bear]

Could be many but for me winning that FA Cup quarter-final at Sheffield Wednesday, they were a top team in those days but beating them 3-1 on their own muck heap convinced me this was our year.

 

[urbanbushmonkey]

Walsall Away 2004, 6-1 win.
Gillingham Away 2004 5-2 Richard Shaw scoring.
Preston Home 2004 4-0 up after 20ish minutes
Millwall Home 2004 4-0 win.

Infact mostly the Eric Black era. I'll always have rose tinted spectacles about that period, sure we got beat a few times but the football was brilliant. What I'd give for Bjarni back on the win.

 

[phildownunder]

Delving into the distant past (as I know old farts like me often do ), I`d like to nominate the opening game of the 1963/64 season.

The JH revolution was underway and there was a real buzz of optimism for the coming season. As it happened the first game was against Crystal Palace who were reckoned to be possibly our strongest rivals for promotion.

When the game started it was clear only one team was trying to play football. Palace seemed to have a game plan which involved kicking lumps out of any City player who had the ball (and sometimes not, when the ref wasn`t looking).

This backfired on them badly as we ended up beating them 5-1 with Ron Farmer getting a hat trick with two penalties and a direct free kick. This got our season off to a great start which ended with us just pipping Palace on goal average to be div 3 champions, and it was great on the day to see a team playing like that get what they deserved.

I remember reading that when Ron asked if he could have the match ball, JH refused because he said it wasn`t a "real" hat trick !

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

The Blackburn one was special in 1992, stood on that terrace with very few people, ended up with a parking ticket after but couldnt spoil a great night, John the postman was unstoppable.
West Brom away in the cup
Nuddy hatrick at Liverpool
Villa away - had waited so long
Gibson hatrick at home to Liverpool, was only a schoolboy sneaking up for home games by telling parents I was going round my mates to play football and he was saying the opposite to his parents

 

[Danceswithhorses]

Mine has to be the 5-2 away win at Blackburn in Micky Quinn's days. About 100 fans going ape!

Yep that was a great game, at a crappy Ewood Park, before Jack rebuilt it.
Lee Hurst scoring a belter too.

 

[skybluesam66]

west ham 3-2 waited so long for a semi final - got there and for an hour or so, it was all going wrong, with sealey throwing one in, and Gary thompson scoring an own goal

but the way we turned it round

 

[Mild-Mannered Janitor]

Yep that was a great game, at a crappy Ewood Park, before Jack rebuilt it.
Lee Hurst scoring a belter too.

I think it was one of the only goals Quinn scored from outside the area.

 

[Esoterica]

Beating Arsenal 0-3 on the opening day of the 93'94 season with a Micky Quinn hattrick. We had a hugely uninspiring squad that year and I thought we were doomed but ended up going unbeaten for the first 7 or 8 games.

[video=youtube;uadTGAtBNZ8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadTGAtBNZ8[/video]

 

[Fergusons_Beard]

Beating Man Utd at Old Trafford in 89 with a Gary Bannister goal.

Watching Oggy score at Hillsboro on a very wet Tues night in Sheffield.

Boxing Day at Sheff Utd when Sean Flynn scored a screamer.

Obviously Cup runs-87 and League Cup-esp Miffy at Old Trafford.

But our first game at Rotherhams New York Stadium on New Years Day tops the lot-penalty saves,sending off, 5 goals and Baker scores from the halfway line!


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[Speedies_Chips]

One that sticks in the memory was beating Man City in the early 80's 3 - 1, when Peter Bodak scored a beauty. Wow that was some time ago. It was a totally unexpected result in front of only a few hundred Cov fans. I remember Feeling 10 feet tall afterwards.

That was the FA Cup 3rd round. That game was the first time I ever saw City win away. It took a while given that my first away game was in 1979.

 

[Speedies_Chips]

Beating Man Utd at Old Trafford in 89 with a Gary Bannister goal.

Watching Oggy score at Hillsboro on a very wet Tues night in Sheffield.

Boxing Day at Sheff Utd when Sean Flynn scored a screamer.

Obviously Cup runs-87 and League Cup-esp Miffy at Old Trafford.

But our first game at Rotherhams New York Stadium on New Years Day tops the lot-penalty saves,sending off, 5 goals and Baker scores from the halfway line!


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I'm sure Oggy's goal was a Saturday afternoon.

 

[PaulDyson]

1981 League cup semi final v West Ham. Home leg.
Gary Thompson hat-trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uesI3PdkjVQ

 

[wingy]

That was the FA Cup 3rd round. That game was the first time I ever saw City win away. It took a while given that my first away game was in 1979.

It was indeed, got ambushed afterwards and needed nine stitches on my head.
Still made It back In time to catch us on MOTD.

 

[MusicDating]

This one for me, cracking night stood on the kop.[video=youtube_share;9SGxAc9QMiE]https://youtu.be/9SGxAc9QMiE[/video]

Always nice to know the effort I put in to get old VHS highlights on youtube is appreciated, cheers chief!

 

[Fergusons_Beard]

I'm sure Oggy's goal was a Saturday afternoon.

Had to look it up-Lol!

I was sure it was Wet windy night in October .

Nope it was a wet weekend afternoon on the 25th October 1986!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HDwVHKESAT4


In went in off Ferguson's beard....

 

[oscillatewildly]

Mine has to be the 5-2 away win at Blackburn in Micky Quinn's days. About 100 fans going ape!

Yes, what an incredible evenings footer that was! All the way up we were bombarded on the radio by thoughts of just how many goals they would beat us by to go top of the table, not even a suggestion of course that they'd get anything less than a victory!
Those two quick fire victories at VP to finally throw that monkey off our backs will remain in my top five forever. A cup win at Anfield, late '90's to win 3-1 after going one down early on.
One satisfying win that has eluded me tho is that at Sunderland. They have bad mouthed us for so long, but I only ever witnessed a draw and loss at Roker and defeat at SOL.