My beloved Coventry City lost again last night! That after losing to lowly Scunthorpe on Saturday. 4 points from a possible 30 in the last 10 games does not look good. 20th position and only 1 point off relegation spot.
Where has it all gone wrong? We were never a real top flight team, although a first division 6th place in 1969/70 saw us play in the European fairs Cup in 1970 with our entry into the European Arena against the giants of Bulgaria, Trakia Plovdiv. 50 Coventry fans made the trip to see a comfortable 4-1 win for City. The home leg was a comfortable 2-0 victory.
The next round saw us drawn against Bayern Munich. Bayern were to become one of the top European sides of the decade, and this team included a chap called Beckenbauer. We lost 6-1, but managed to salvage our pride with a 2-1 victory.
End of our European record until we won the FA Cup in 1987.....but thanks to our friends from Liverpool, we were unable to take our place!
As an aside, I was present at a number of games that season, including two trips to Hillsborough in the quarter final agains Sheffield Wednesday and the Semi-Final against Leeds Utd, then a 2nd division club! Surely I'd get a ticket for the final! No chance!!!
I was in a car driving down to Poole on the last day of the season in 1997. We needed Middlesborough and Sunderland to lose (they were'nt playing each other by the way) and we needed to beat Spurs away! Unbelievabley all results went our way.......I was stuck in a traffic Jam on the A34 on the way into Newbury as the final whistle went......yet another Houdini escape.......if the Titanic had been painted Sky Blue it would not have gone down!
So now we stand 1 point off the botttom 3, with a "relegation 6 pointer" against Peterborough United and ironically there is talk of Darren Ferguson being lined up to replace Chris Coleman!
How the "not so mighty" have fallen......read Leeds Utd, Southampton, Charlton, Norwich etc. etc.
Play up SkyBlues
(We'll get back to the golf.............trust me!)
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