When did it begin for you? (1 Viewer)

thekidfromstrettoncamp · 2026-03-23T14:11:17+0000

If I have 1 regret It was missing the Cup Final had all the vouchers .Made my way to HR my dear wife bringing money(£6) only to be left short in the queue when they were sold out.The next price was £25 which I hadn't got, times were hard moneywise for us then.
Watch it on the TV wife wishing we drew so I could go to the replay.Me just wanting to win it just to say we are Cup winners

ovduk78 · 2026-03-23T14:24:14+0000

My 1st memory of watching us was on Star Soccer beat Forest 2-0. Our next game was at Bayern Munich & I didn't know the score until my dad got home from his nightshift at MFs and I ran downstairs to find out we had lost 6-1 & I sat crying at the bottom of the stairs. I never went to a game until April 1973 & didn't go regularly until the 76/77 season.

thekidfromstrettoncamp · 2026-03-23T14:25:42+0000

ovduk78 said:
My 1st memory of watching us was on Star Soccer beat Forest 2-0. Our next game was at Bayern Munich & I didn't know the score until my dad got home from his nightshift at MFs and I ran downstairs to find out we had lost 6-1 & I sat crying at the bottom of the stairs. I never went to a game until April 1973 & didn't go regularly until the 76/77 season.

But we did win the home leg.

robbiethemole · 2026-03-23T14:28:09+0000

thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
If I have 1 regret It was missing the Cup Final had all the vouchers .Made my way to HR my dear wife bringing money(£6) only to be left short in the queue when they were sold out.The next price was £25 which I hadn't got, times were hard moneywise for us then.
Watch it on the TV wife wishing we drew so I could go to the replay.Me just wanting to win it just to say we are Cup winners

I missed out too............. my Eldest was 3 months old and I couldn't afford to go!!!! sent Mrs mole out with him so I could watch the game on TV ( he was wearing a Sky Blue jacket ) without interruption hahahha.

ovduk78 · 2026-03-23T14:28:43+0000

thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
But we did win the home leg.

I remember trying to work out how the away goal rule worked so that although we lost 6-1 it was actually 6-2 so we only had to win 5-0 at HR to go through

thekidfromstrettoncamp · 2026-03-23T14:30:26+0000

ovduk78 said:
I remember trying to work out how the away goal rule worked so that although we lost 6-1 it was actually 6-2 so we only had to win 5-0 at HR to go through

When we took the lead at in the home leg we thought maybe.

JSL · 2026-03-23T15:21:29+0000

My next door neighbour was the kit lady when I was a kid living in Ryton in the Mick Coop era. The rest just fell into place

glasgowfan · 2026-03-23T15:22:49+0000

Started going about a year before the Jimmy Hill era. When Jimmy Hill arrived the atmosphere in the club was just so positive. Sky Blue song, the Sky Blue express to away games. Away matches screened at Highfield Road in front of the Sky Blue stand, Sky Blue radio pre-match playing the Beatles' She Loves You and so much more. Uplifting times. The Lampard era is great, but the innovations in the Jimmy Hill and Derrick Robbins era were ground-breaking. And so many teams to support... first team, reserves, A-team, youth team

covboy9 · 2026-03-23T15:45:21+0000

Cov 0 Arsenal 2 1985

matesx · 2026-03-23T15:51:28+0000

West terrace 1985

Jay88 · 2026-03-23T17:16:48+0000

Mine was Tottenham at home in December 1996. After this game we'd won 1 league game out of the first 16 games. And then won 4 games in a row! We completed the great escape on the last day of the season away at Tottenham!

Danceswithhorses · 2026-03-23T17:21:03+0000

1st game was the pre-season friendly vs Japan in 1978

Captain Dart · 2026-03-23T17:40:21+0000

thekidfromstrettoncamp said:
My first season was 1957/8 playing in the 3 division South finished in the bottom half of the table became founder member of the new 4th division. Enjoyed the rise from there to division 1 which became the Premier league suffered the drop back down to division 3 .Started the journey back up. Look out you big ba-----s here we come here we come.
Enjoy the ride

Mercian In Anglia · 2026-03-23T18:30:54+0000

Went to the Cup Final victory parade, aged 4.

First game v Millwall 0-0 88/89

First win 3-1 v Man City 90/91 Big Cyrille, Micky Gynn and Gally with the goals.

First away game 0-2 v the Vile 91-92 (Big Cyrille again!), charged by the Holte End just before KO, but it turned out to be city fans overspilling and running to the away end.

Shannerz · 2026-03-23T18:41:32+0000

Got into football watching the 1986 World Cup (never interested before then); needed a team.

Then '87 Cup run happened; local underdogs coming good. I was hooked by the quarters.

covcity4life · 2026-03-23T19:12:28+0000

When we beat Boro 3-1 at home. Haji wright scored a hatrick I think. I knew then that I wanted to support Coventry city fc

Ccfcisparks · 2026-03-23T19:13:56+0000

covcity4life said:
When we beat Boro 3-1 at home. Haji wright scored a hatrick I think. I knew then that I wanted to support Coventry city fc

Stealing my joke!

Martw · 2026-03-23T19:16:11+0000

13th April 1971 we beat Man Urinal 2-1 - in the 70s being a Cov fan wasnt exactly a thing battling against Leeds Liverpool and United plastic fans at school but once you have Sky Blue in your blood then that’s it and rightly so. I am 60 and have seen it all I reckon but right now I’m just bursting with pride at this team

Paul Anthony · 2026-03-23T19:21:13+0000

1993/94, Highfield Road against Southampton. I can well remember it, for all the wrong reasons. I was 4. Nobody had explained anything about what I was getting in to, other than we were playing in blue. So, I didn't have the first clue what was going on. My stepdad explained it in rather simple terms, "when the ball goes in the net, cheer" . What he SHOULD have said was "when the team in blue put the ball in the net.."

Anyway, we scored. Everyone cheered. I joined in, thinking I'd got the hang of it.

You can well imagine the looks I got from everyone around us when Southampton scored and I cheered....

And we lost. Bloody Southampton.

Anyway, somehow, I was hooked.

Cov kid 55 · 2026-03-23T19:21:27+0000

Bad Boy said:
For me it was the 1963/63 season, right at the beginning of the Sky Blue Revolution.

Same here. What a year to start supporting City, eh? The Sky Blue Revolution in the swinging sixties, in a thriving city.

Brighton Sky Blue · 2026-03-23T19:22:28+0000

Paul Anthony said:
1993/94, Highfield Road against Southampton. I can well remember it, for all the wrong reasons. I was 4. Nobody had explained anything about what I was getting in to, other than we were playing in blue. So, I didn't have the first clue what was going on. My stepdad explained it in rather simple terms, "when the ball goes in the net, cheer" . What he SHOULD have said was "when the team in blue put the ball in the net.."

Anyway, we scored. Everyone cheered. I joined in, thinking I'd got the hang of it.

You can well imagine the looks I got from everyone around us when Southampton scored and I cheered....

Anyway, somehow, I was hooked.

Who’s to say he did that by accident?

skybluejelly · 2026-03-23T20:11:36+0000

1978 Coventry 5 Chelsea 1 ….i thought every game would be like that

ExmouthNeil · 2026-03-23T20:17:17+0000

I think it was 82 83 last game of the season at home against West Ham.
Sat in the old east terrace and we lost 5-2...
I was hooked and my stepfather got me a season ticket for the next season... Thank you Kevin...

eyesee · 2026-03-23T20:18:05+0000

74 or 75, something like that. can't remember the exact game. but it was a great time to be a city fan.
used to walk from longford up the canal to highfield road with my dad.
shame he couldn't have hung on for another couple of years. he would have loved this season.

covcity4life · 2026-03-23T20:22:34+0000

Ccfcisparks said:
Stealing my joke!

Where?

Si80 · 2026-03-23T20:37:57+0000

First game would've been in 87/88 season as I remember having the full kit being bought for me from the club shop at Highfield Rd before going to the game with my Dad.
Had a season ticket since 2010.

trevorsathispeake · 2026-03-23T21:52:35+0000

1978 vs Ipswich 2 2 came from 2 0 down

Domo · 2026-03-23T21:53:43+0000

1994 - cup game with my dad at HR for a taster, then didnt stop going. still got the original 94' kit that my daughter can now fit into.
Seasons tickets, seen the quality of the premier league greats at HR (beckham, shearer etc etc), and somehow end up in the home end at villa park on that dreaded day and follow them as low as FGR loss

I cant wait for the PL, i dont care if we're smashed to pieces every week, ive spent half my life waiting for it.

covcity4life · 2026-03-23T21:55:51+0000

1993 cov Vs west ham 1-1 wegerle

But started supporting cov around 91-92 when my mate who went to every game at a time my parents wouldn't let me would buy me a programme and bring it in to school for me

Was anyone else obsessed with the fixture section at the back as a child?

Great memories

Cov kid 55 · 2026-03-23T22:05:42+0000

A bit off piste - not my first game, which was Cov v Sunderland, FA Cup 5th round, 1963, but my last game before I left Coventry for Norfolk, as a 14 year old with my family to follow my dad’s change of job. December 26, 1969, City 3 Ipswich 1. Goal scorers Ernie Hunt and Neil Martin, plus an own goal. Substitute (just 1) Denis Mortimer, who came on for Ian Gibson. i’ve never lived in Cov since, but - you can take the kid out of Cov, but……. Anybody else remember being at that Ipswich game?

steveo1987 · 2026-03-23T23:18:24+0000

1973/74 season,first proper memories for me is the Hunt, Hutchinson, Wallace, Ferguson side among others of course. They were my heroes. My lad is coming up 18, took him to see the city at 3 , had a season ticket from 4 yrs old, saw the fall and rise, season tickets at Northampton and Birmingham as an innocent kid, now reaping the benefits, planning PL awaydays, precious memories built through the generations, we live away but are proud season ticket holders and proud city fans.

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT · 2026-03-23T23:40:06+0000

olderskyblue said:
1963, my uncles taking me to the games as a kid.

Same here, my dad used to take me but when he couldn't make it my uncle took me to the games, I was 11 years of age.

Kneeza · 2026-03-23T23:42:55+0000

1963. Dad refused to take me until I turned 10.

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