Game #2398 | League game #2196
Season game #7 | Division One game #6
Highfield Road game # | Gordon Milne game #
Coventry City 9th | Middlesbrough 16th (22)

Jack Charlton has left but John Neal hasn’t changed Boro’s tactics - they are still mean and spoiling. City dominate a poor game and Ray Graydon finally gets the breakthrough. It gives City their first win in seven over the Ayresome Park men since Boro won promotion in 1974.