Sky Blue Harry H
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No - just drug dealers
No - just drug dealersAlthough Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?
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you are being so specific you should know if it is 6 or if it is 7
Although Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?
I think this question is difficult to answer as undoubtedly generations perception of football and being a ‘football supporter’ has changed massively in the last 20 years, not just in Coventry but across the UK.
For me, being a football supporter is supporting your local team, going the games as much as possible, having the atmosphere and seeing your mates, thrown in with the odd away game every so often, which is a day out to look forward to.
How it all began? When I was 7, my grandad started taking me up the City, as he did with my brother, cousins and so on. Back then, dodgy kodi boxes hadn’t been invented, my parents couldn’t afford SkySports and going up the City and watching MOTD (and then years later the Football League Show with Steve Claridge and Manish!) was my only exposure to football. I also remember most of the lads at my school supporting City with the odd few, weird exceptions. Plenty of Dublin/Keane/Hadji shirts etc on non school uniform days and for football training..
To speak generally: For kids these days, there’s a lot more exposure to top-level football and potential to ‘support’ an elite team - Non stop games on Sky/BT, social media, JD/Sports Direct stocking plastic shirts from across the world (but no local teams shirts). All of this along with expensive travel/tickets (their own fault for being glory hunters) has resulted in 18/19 year olds that own a load of shit branded merchandise, can tell you every Liverpool player’s rating on Fifa but can’t tell you a decent pub near the ground. I don’t think there’s as much importance to them to go to the games.
I don’t think the percentage of CCFC fans in the City or surrounding areas is as high as it used to be but I think that’s a trend probably across the UK.
Hinckley and Burbage quite a few cov you can tell our lot we only have four fingers and one thumb on each hand
Really? How many of you are there and do you ever meet up?Lots in Alberta
I think this question is difficult to answer as undoubtedly generations perception of football and being a ‘football supporter’ has changed massively in the last 20 years, not just in Coventry but across the UK.
For me, being a football supporter is supporting your local team, going the games as much as possible, having the atmosphere and seeing your mates, thrown in with the odd away game every so often, which is a day out to look forward to.
How it all began? When I was 7, my grandad started taking me up the City, as he did with my brother, cousins and so on. Back then, dodgy kodi boxes hadn’t been invented, my parents couldn’t afford SkySports and going up the City and watching MOTD (and then years later the Football League Show with Steve Claridge and Manish!) was my only exposure to football. I also remember most of the lads at my school supporting City with the odd few, weird exceptions. Plenty of Dublin/Keane/Hadji shirts etc on non school uniform days and for football training..
To speak generally: For kids these days, there’s a lot more exposure to top-level football and potential to ‘support’ an elite team - Non stop games on Sky/BT, social media, JD/Sports Direct stocking plastic shirts from across the world (but no local teams shirts). All of this along with expensive travel/tickets (their own fault for being glory hunters) has resulted in 18/19 year olds that own a load of shit branded merchandise, can tell you every Liverpool player’s rating on Fifa but can’t tell you a decent pub near the ground. I don’t think there’s as much importance to them to go to the games.
I don’t think the percentage of CCFC fans in the City or surrounding areas is as high as it used to be but I think that’s a trend probably across the UK.
is that an I don't know to the original question mate?!
Sort of. I think the number of City fans has decreased in the last 15 years but wouldn’t be able to guess a percentage. I’ve got plenty of mates from Coundon that go up the games but that’s as specific as I can be!!
You can't count the ones in the ground. It gives places like Cheylesmore an unfair advantage when they have the London Road Cemetery.It's in the heart and ground that matters.
Latent. That's the right word.Wolves and Brighton are examples of lost generations returning to the fold.
There is no secret how they did it. By winning games, by creating the conditions that welcomed the returning fans and enticing new ones. In fact all that Wasps did upon their arrival.
We know there is latent support for the club but it's translating that to getting them to come to games.
I think that reclaiming the towns is a fantastic step and although Riyadh is my home nowadays my family live in Nuneaton and I will join that branch.
We have to drive Leicester, Blues and especially Villa out of our heartland by offering something of an identity that we all can hang our hat on.
I am sure we are going in the right direction and the smell of decay has been replaced by something sweeter, now let's hope the idiots don't leave us homeless again.
Quite right I should. It is just that I know there is someone else here who I know supports Coventry but can't remember who. It's a problem with growing old!
Latent. That's the right word.
You can't count the ones in the ground. It gives places like Cheylesmore an unfair advantage when they have the London Road Cemetery.
But you'd have to factor away fans into that data too who will mostly be heading towards the motorway rather than through town.Always said it. Look at the flow of traffic coming out of the Arena/Tesco area. Its mostly heading towards M6. So, Nuneaton & Bedworth.
Many Cov in Kearsley?
Nah it's just the easiest way to come back to the south west.Always said it. Look at the flow of traffic coming out of the Arena/Tesco area. Its mostly heading towards M6. So, Nuneaton & Bedworth.
Although Sickboy did send me a package once. Does that make us friends?
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In breds!Surprisingly, 6 or 7 of us in St Neots in Cambridgeshire from 5 different families.
Nah they're cov so it's inbatchIn breds!
Speak for yourself young man !!Hinckley and Burbage quite a few cov you can tell our lot we only have four fingers and one thumb on each hand
They were just on holiday, they don't live there.There's quite a few in Brighton & Hove, got stopped about 5 times over the summer when wearing a cov shirt.
Wolves and Brighton are examples of lost generations returning to the fold.
There is no secret how they did it. By winning games, by creating the conditions that welcomed the returning fans and enticing new ones. In fact all that Wasps did upon their arrival.
We know there is latent support for the club but it's translating that to getting them to come to games.
I think that reclaiming the towns is a fantastic step and although Riyadh is my home nowadays my family live in Nuneaton and I will join that branch.
We have to drive Leicester, Blues and especially Villa out of our heartland by offering something of an identity that we all can hang our hat on.
I am sure we are going in the right direction and the smell of decay has been replaced by something sweeter, now let's hope the idiots don't leave us homeless again.
Bloody hell , it’s a long time since I’ve been called young manSpeak for yourself young man !!
The fact you have to be over 50 to play perhaps gives the picture of the aging demographic of our fan base.
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