Who was Manager when you first started supporting Coventry City ? (2 Viewers)

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Sky Blue 1987

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• Tuesday at 1:00 PM

• #36

Gordon Strachan for me

 

SomersetSB

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• Tuesday at 1:01 PM

• #37

Gordon Milne

 

chiefdave

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• Tuesday at 1:43 PM

• #38

George and John for me. Started going in 86 so after that first season I had a few decades of things going downhill

 

DazzleTommyDazzle

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• Tuesday at 1:45 PM

• #39

Noel Cantwell

 

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thekidfromstrettoncamp

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• Tuesday at 1:58 PM

• #40

Billy Frith for his second spell.

 

Danceswithhorses

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• Tuesday at 2:02 PM

• #41

Milne

 

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Skyblue Bangkok

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• Tuesday at 2:12 PM

• #42

Danceswithhorses said:

Milne

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Jimmy Hill

 

Brylowes

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• Tuesday at 2:19 PM

• #43

@Otis think you need to break out the Werther‘s again!!

 

Otis

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• Tuesday at 2:55 PM

• #44

Cantwell.

 

Otis

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• Tuesday at 2:55 PM

• #45

Otis said:

Cantwell.

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Either him or Harry Storer. Can't quite remember

 

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KAB

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• Tuesday at 3:07 PM

• #46

Billy Frith.

 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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• Tuesday at 3:45 PM

• #47

Sillett.

 

CV3SkyBlue

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• Tuesday at 4:34 PM

• #48

Tail end of Micky Adams / Beginning of Ian Dowie

 

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Skyblue Bangkok

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• Tuesday at 4:41 PM

• #49

CV3SkyBlue said:

Tail end of Micky Adams / Beginning of Ian Dowie

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You poor thing for suffering under those two .

 

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Skyblue Bangkok

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• Tuesday at 4:45 PM

• #50

Skyblue Bangkok said:

You poor thing for suffering under those two .

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Although imagine if you started supporting the club when Russel.Slafe became manager .

 

NortonSkyBlue

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• Tuesday at 4:47 PM

• #51

jimmy Hill but soon left having introduced Noel Cantwell who was manager for my first game v Fulham a couple of weeks later

 

ovduk78

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• Tuesday at 4:49 PM

• #52

Cantwell but 1st game I saw Milne was manager

 

tisza

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• Tuesday at 4:51 PM

• #53

Gordon Milne

 

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Skyblue Bangkok

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• Tuesday at 4:52 PM

• #54

tisza said:

Gordon Milne

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Now aged 88, he's having a long innings.

 

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wingy

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• Tuesday at 4:54 PM

• #55

And revered in Turkey
As well as here.

 

WestEndAgro

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• Tuesday at 4:54 PM

• #56

Gordon Milne

 

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Skyblue Bangkok

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• Tuesday at 4:59 PM

• #57

wingy said:

And revered in Turkey
As well as here.

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A legend at Besiktas were he won 3 successive league titles.

 

LastChance

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• Tuesday at 5:08 PM

• #58

Noel Cantwell, 2nd season in League Division 1, September 1968.

 

The Great Eastern

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• Tuesday at 5:11 PM

• #59

Sir Jimmy Hill

 

stupot07

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• Tuesday at 5:17 PM

• #60

Don Mackey was my first match, but given I was born a sky blue Gordon Milne.

 

mark82

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• Tuesday at 5:36 PM

• #61

John Sillett is the first I remember as a child, but after the cup final.

 

Colin Steins Smile

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• Tuesday at 5:48 PM

• #62

Jimmy Hill

 

Frank Sidebottom

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• Tuesday at 6:31 PM

• #63

Phil Neal.

 

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Legia Sky Blue

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• Tuesday at 6:53 PM

• #64

I'm not 100% sure. Mercer and Milne were the newly installed management team, but I think initially Joe Mercer was the official manager. The match programmes from that time certainly have him writing the manager's column.

 

andy86

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• Tuesday at 7:04 PM

• #65

Phil Neal