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That brown kit :)
Tommy Hutchison book
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ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN
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Broke my heart when the ball went in off his shoulder
remember arthur mann
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JGL07
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I lived in Coventry from 1978 to 1983. I quite liked the City before the rot set in when the motor industry started to collapse around 1982. It had obviously been coming for a year or two as any examination of the trends would have revealed.
I even got elected to the Coventry City Council in 1980 and served through to 1983 when my term expired. By then, my employment took me to Edinburgh. I went back to Coventry about twelve years later and was horrified to see how the City Centre had deteriorated following the end of the motor industry. I did have similar feelings when visiting Manchester in the late 1980s.
I was at the game you mention above. Man City played us off the pi tch in the first half and we were lucky to be only 2-1 down at half time. What a second half! We were fantastic. I have never seen a better perfomance as you had some team at that time. My favourite ever Cove try game. I asked Tommy about it but he couldn't remember it!
I think you overestimate the importance and influence of Jimmy Hill. Why would the police listen to him with no valid reason. Also, would he really be so keen that our game started later? The only combination of results that would have made this a worthwhile thing to do was the one that happened. Some predictive skills to forsee this happening. I think you are delving into the realms of supposition and conspiracy theories rather than sticking to the facts.
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Like I said.... the West Mids police force.... one of the most bent and corrupt going...
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't cov pull a similar stunt when Strachan was manager? Needed a result at Spurs final game of the season...... coach got held up "in traffic" (who knew there would be heavy traffic in London eh?) and the game had a 15 minute delay...... and cov escaped again.... every other game had ended and cov keep playing knowing what they have to do...
I wish you success with the book by the way
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Dirty Harry
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I guess when you see him covered in mud and soaking wet it’s easier to see :-)
Thanks for the good wishes.
You’re right, the game at Spurs did kick off 15 minutes late. Again, as far as I know, down to crowd congestion in north London. I would imagine that Coventry as the away team would not have been consulted. The late KO was off no use really as we knew we had to win to stay up. Any other result would have seen us relegated. Ironically, the two other teams that stood a chance of avoiding relegation that day were Middlesborough and Sunderland again!
We should really have gone down that year as Middlesborough were docked, I think, 3 points earlier in the season for not turning up to a fixture. Bryan Robson, in his wisdom, decided that they had so many injuries, they shouldn’t play a particular away game. Unfortunately for him and Middlesborough, this wasn’t approved by the league, hence their lost points. If they had played the game they wouldn’t have been relegated.
Hutch made some money off the brown kit. The players had a sneak preview of the new away kit.Hutch bet the members of his darts team that they wouldn't guess the colour. Nobody guessed brown and I think he made a fiver on the bet!