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Game #2821 | League game #2564
Season game #45 | Division One game #38
Highfield Road # | Don Mackay game #
Coventry City 17th | Manchester United 3rd (22)
United have thrown away their massive lead in the title race but still take City apart in the first half, with Strachan and Bryan Robson awesome. Pickering pulls one back before Strachan wraps it up from a tight angle. City assistant Frank Upton is sacked but Poynton says ‘Mackay is safe’.
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Referee:
RG Groves
74'
52'
Substitutes
74'
Coach
1
Chris Turner
2
John Gidman
3
Arthur Albiston
4
Norman Whiteside
5
Paul McGrath
6
Mark Higgins
7
Bryan Robson
28'
8
Gordon Strachan
83'
9
Mark Hughes
10
Peter Davenport
11
Colin Gibson
13'29'
Substitutes
12
Frank Stapleton
29'
Coach
Ron Atkinson
Coventry City
Manchester United
13'
0:1
Goal
Colin Gibson
28'
0:2
Goal
Bryan Robson
29'
Substitute
In:Frank Stapleton
Out:Colin Gibson
Goal
1:2
52'
Nick Pickering
Substitute
74'
In:Micky Adams
Out:Greg Downs
83'
1:3
Goal
Gordon Strachan
Coventry City
Manchester United
Coventry City
Manchester United
29'
Out
Colin Gibson
In
Frank Stapleton
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