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Spotting fellow Cov fans in the wild (1 Viewer)

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  • Start date Feb 19, 2025
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Sky Blue Wozza

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  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #106
Always wear a shirt at Glastonbury on the Thursday. Get more than a few “Sky Blue Armies” shouted at me. Also have decent conversations with fans of similarly sh*t clubs - lovely Oxford fellas a few years back and a tripping Carlisle fan last year, who was surprisingly lucid on his teams’ fortunes.
 
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baldy

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #107
Sky Blue Wozza said:
Always wear a shirt at Glastonbury on the Thursday. Get more than a few “Sky Blue Armies” shouted at me. Also have decent conversations with fans of similarly sh*t clubs - lovely Oxford fellas a few years back and a tripping Carlisle fan last year, who was surprisingly lucid on his teams’ fortunes.
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'Similarly shit'?
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #108
Terry_dactyl said:
Said that for games lessons him and carsley were always given the option of either being the best players in the shit match or the worst players in the good match.
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This literally describes my entire secondary school P.E.. lessons.
 
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Tile Hill Phil

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  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #109
Travs said:
I feel similar......

Sanctuary closed in summer 2004, and i'd pretty much given up going to big raves by summer 2005...... although did a couple of big venues after the Sanctuary........ Cov Skydome, and Nottingham Ice Arena spring to mind.

Bagleys was my favourite place. United Dance on a friday night, come out at 6am and get the first SIlverlink train back to Cov..... although pretty grim getting back to Cov as people were going about their weekend shopping etc.
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Wasn’t really into the rave scene but knew a few lads in the 90,s who were into it. They told me about the Eclipse club and thought I’d give it a go one Saturday night. What an awesome atmosphere that place had. Left at about 2.30 in the morning and the place was still banging
 

Fergusons_Beard

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #110
Met an American in a bar at a hotel in Jamaica I was wearing my Cov top and he said that he had lived near Coventry in the 90’s as he was from Detroit and spent years here (as he was in the car industry).

Said he supported Cov and so did his son-he pointed out his son who was wearing a Cov top and introduced him ‘he was named after the place he was conceived-we call him Lem but his full name is Leamington Purcell’…


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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #111
Fergusons_Beard said:
Met an American in a bar at a hotel in Jamaica I was wearing my Cov top and he said that he had lived near Coventry in the 90’s as he was from Detroit and spent years here (as he was in the car industry).

Said he supported Cov and so did his son-he pointed out his son who was wearing a Cov top and introduced him ‘he was named after the place he was conceived-we call him Lem but his full name is Leamington Purcell’…


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I was so hoping his kid's name was going to be West Terrace
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #112
Fergusons_Beard said:
Met an American in a bar at a hotel in Jamaica I was wearing my Cov top and he said that he had lived near Coventry in the 90’s as he was from Detroit and spent years here (as he was in the car industry).

Said he supported Cov and so did his son-he pointed out his son who was wearing a Cov top and introduced him ‘he was named after the place he was conceived-we call him Lem but his full name is Leamington Purcell’…


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Met a fellow Cov fan ( who lives in Australia ) at a cricket 6's tournament in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand last year .
 
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Travs

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  • Feb 21, 2025
  • #113
Tile Hill Phil said:
Wasn’t really into the rave scene but knew a few lads in the 90,s who were into it. They told me about the Eclipse club and thought I’d give it a go one Saturday night. What an awesome atmosphere that place had. Left at about 2.30 in the morning and the place was still banging
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I missed the Eclipse days by a few years.... but in the early 00's it reopened as The Institute and had some really good nights. Drum and Bass on friday nights and then some kind of House/HardHouse (i wasn't into House so not 100% sure) on saturdays.

I got thrown out on the opening night for falling down the stairs.
 
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Johhny Blue

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  • Feb 22, 2025
  • #114
Torquay Sky Blue said:
Play walking footy these days (I'm old) with a couple of ex pros. The way they ping a pass and shield the ball is different class. It never goes
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I was invited to play for Canada in the first World Cup in Derby last year. I turned it down a) because I was in England a few weeks before the tournament and
b) I thought Canada would be blown away every game.
In the end they finished 4th(knocked out by England)
 

Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Feb 22, 2025
  • #115
Johhny Blue said:
I was invited to play for Canada in the first World Cup in Derby last year. I turned it down a) because I was in England a few weeks before the tournament and
b) I thought Canada would be blown away every game.
In the end they finished 4th(knocked out by England)
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My mate plays for England. They're a decent side tbf. I'm playing for Torquay in Portugal in April. I've finally made it into Europe
 
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Terry_dactyl

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  • Feb 22, 2025
  • #116
Torquay Sky Blue said:
Play walking footy these days (I'm old) with a couple of ex pros. The way they ping a pass and shield the ball is different class. It never goes
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Im just about still signed on for veterans (over 45s) league, where there are quite a few ex-pros still giving it a go. It’s great going up against/being in the same team as people I’ve actually heard of!!

I reckon walking football is next for me…arthritis allowing! In fact was chatting to an old colleague of mine just last night. He was telling me how great it is. He travels all over the place with it.
 

Torquay Sky Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 22, 2025
  • #117
Terry_dactyl said:
Im just about still signed on for veterans (over 45s) league, where there are quite a few ex-pros still giving it a go. It’s great going up against/being in the same team as people I’ve actually heard of!!

I reckon walking football is next for me…arthritis allowing! In fact was chatting to an old colleague of mine just last night. He was telling me how great it is. He travels all over the place with it.
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Give it a go mate, you'll love. Still some very good oldies knocking about
 
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Sky Blue Sparky

Member
  • Feb 23, 2025
  • #118
Long time reader first time poster. It’s not exotic but I met a fellow Cov fan at the tip in Bognor Regis this morning. Not that often you see us down here!
 
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Houchens Head

Fairly well known member from Malvern
  • Feb 23, 2025
  • #119
Saw someone in a city top in a Malvern pub today. Then I remembered I had just gone for a piss and it was my reflection in the mirror! Doh!
 
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Alkhen

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  • Feb 27, 2025
  • #120
Not a fan sighting but I also find it odd seeing anything Coventry related outside the county...

Today on my lunch break I nipped into charity shop local to me (Gloucestershire).

As I was leaving this beaut caught my eye! 50p bargain. Lady at the till asked me if I was Spurs fan

 
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mmttww

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  • Feb 27, 2025
  • #121
Houchens Head said:
Saw someone in a city top in a Malvern pub today. Then I remembered I had just gone for a piss and it was my reflection in the mirror! Doh!
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Still counts, I reckon.
 
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Captain Dart

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  • Feb 27, 2025
  • #122
Alkhen said:
Not a fan sighting but I also find it odd seeing anything Coventry related outside the county...

Today on my lunch break I nipped into charity shop local to me (Gloucestershire).

As I was leaving this beaut caught my eye! 50p bargain. Lady at the till asked me if I was Spurs fan

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The club should most definitely consider getting some mugs like this on sale. Maybe even some newspaper clips.
 
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Johhny Blue

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #123
Alkhen said:
Not a fan sighting but I also find it odd seeing anything Coventry related outside the county...

Today on my lunch break I nipped into charity shop local to me (Gloucestershire).

As I was leaving this beaut caught my eye! 50p bargain. Lady at the till asked me if I was Spurs fan

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You won the cup
 
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skybluelee

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #124
Alkhen said:
Not a fan sighting but I also find it odd seeing anything Coventry related outside the county...

Today on my lunch break I nipped into charity shop local to me (Gloucestershire).

As I was leaving this beaut caught my eye! 50p bargain. Lady at the till asked me if I was Spurs fan

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All our goal timings are wrong, take it back and demand a refund!
 
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Alkhen

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #125
skybluelee said:
All our goal timings are wrong, take it back and demand a refund!
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Oh yeah! only Clive Allens is right. I demand a full refund, damages and a written apology from the Barnardo's CEO
 
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Mcbean

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #126
Houchens Head said:
Saw someone in a city top in a Malvern pub today. Then I remembered I had just gone for a piss and it was my reflection in the mirror! Doh!
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Only local people caught in the toilets in Malvern
 
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North York’s Blue

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #127
Saw an older guy in a Cov top on a cruise ship in the Caribbean last week, didn’t get chance to speak though.
 

The Great Eastern

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #128
While watching the Leeds game on tv in a Tenerife Irish boozer a few weeks ago, I started talking to a guy in a Cov top. He turned out to be an SBT occasional visitor called Neil Martin's Head. We both agreed we were extremely fortunate to concede only 2 goals !
 

peteCCFC

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #129
Met a guy called Clive, birkenstock clogs and long floppy hair whilst on an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Great, great guy. His hair told a thousand stories and I've never seen anyone taketh the frogs poison so well, he vomited for at least an hour and seemed truly refreshed afterwards. Go Clive.
 
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Porkchophill

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #130
Bui vien street in Saigon .. lad walked past a bar I was at with a cov top on , shouted sky blue army at him just looked at me gone out and carried on walking
 
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mmttww

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #131
peteCCFC said:
Met a guy called Clive, birkenstock clogs and long floppy hair whilst on an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Great, great guy. His hair told a thousand stories and I've never seen anyone taketh the frogs poison so well, he vomited for at least an hour and seemed truly refreshed afterwards. Go Clive.
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You got Clive's number?
 

Skyblueweeman

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  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #132
Sky Blue Sparky said:
Long time reader first time poster. It’s not exotic but I met a fellow Cov fan at the tip in Bognor Regis this morning. Not that often you see us down here!
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I've worn Cov tops round Chichester a few times. Even thought about wearing one to Shieks when I was at uni!
 
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SBTasha

Well-Known Member
  • Feb 28, 2025
  • #133
My partner 2 seasons ago gave his shirt away to a Bayern Munich fan who was here visiting for a few weeks. Hopefully we made a new fan! Coventry Scheiße does mean Coventry shirt doesn’t it?
 
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baldy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #134
peteCCFC said:
Met a guy called Clive, birkenstock clogs and long floppy hair whilst on an Ayahuasca retreat in Peru. Great, great guy. His hair told a thousand stories and I've never seen anyone taketh the frogs poison so well, he vomited for at least an hour and seemed truly refreshed afterwards. Go Clive.
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Eakin?
 

baldy

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #135
SBTasha said:
My partner 2 seasons ago gave his shirt away to a Bayern Munich fan who was here visiting for a few weeks. Hopefully we made a new fan! Coventry Scheiße does mean Coventry shirt doesn’t it?
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Bit of an odd thing to do tbh
 

Covcraig@bury

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #136
I’m thinking when I go back to Goa next Feb to take as many City shirts as possible and had them out around Cavelossim. So nearer the time I will start a thread for any donations of unwanted City shirts of all size's.
 
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Peter Billing Eyes

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #137
Travs said:
I missed the Eclipse days by a few years.... but in the early 00's it reopened as The Institute and had some really good nights. Drum and Bass on friday nights and then some kind of House/HardHouse (i wasn't into House so not 100% sure) on saturdays.

I got thrown out on the opening night for falling down the stairs.
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I think you’re thinking of The Planet?
 

Mr Panda

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #138
Not necessarily City fans but when I was in LA in 2014, I was sitting around the pool chatting to my friend and a couple directly asked me if I were from Coventry just because of my accent. Turned out they lived 2 minutes from me as well in Coundon
 
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Travs

Well-Known Member
  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #139
Peter Billing Eyes said:
I think you’re thinking of The Planet?
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This was after the Planet.

Re-opened as The Institute, would be late 2000 or possibly during 2001.

However it only lasted a year or so. Not sure why.... the DnB nights always seemed busy, and the saturday nights appeared to be equally popular.
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Mar 1, 2025
  • #140
Skyblue Bangkok said:
Met a fellow Cov fan ( who lives in Australia ) at a cricket 6's tournament in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand last year .
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I’ve got a mate from Potters Green who lives in Chiang Mai and follows the city from afar.
 
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