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

[Sky Blue 1987]

Gordon Strachan for me

 

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[SomersetSB]

Gordon Milne

 

[chiefdave]

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

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

Noel Cantwell

 

[thekidfromstrettoncamp]

Billy Frith for his second spell.

 

[Danceswithhorses]

Milne

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Milne

Jimmy Hill

 

[Brylowes]

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

 

[Otis]

Cantwell.

 

[Otis]

Cantwell.

Either him or Harry Storer. Can't quite remember

 

[KAB]

Billy Frith.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

Sillett.

 

[CV3SkyBlue]

Tail end of Micky Adams / Beginning of Ian Dowie

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Tail end of Micky Adams / Beginning of Ian Dowie

You poor thing for suffering under those two .

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

You poor thing for suffering under those two .

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

 

[NortonSkyBlue]

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

 

[ovduk78]

Cantwell but 1st game I saw Milne was manager

 

[tisza]

Gordon Milne

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Gordon Milne

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

 

[wingy]

And revered in Turkey
As well as here.

 

[WestEndAgro]

Gordon Milne

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

And revered in Turkey
As well as here.

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

 

[LastChance]

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

 

[The Great Eastern]

Sir Jimmy Hill

 

[stupot07]

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

 

[mark82]

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

 

[Colin Steins Smile]

Jimmy Hill

 

[Frank Sidebottom]

Phil Neal.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

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]

Phil Neal