Game #2656 | League game #2420
Season game #20 | Division One game #23
Highfield Road game # | Dave Sexton game #
Coventry City 7th | Stoke City 14th (22)

Stoke are as inconsistent as City and rarely trouble the Sky Blues on a frosty pitch. Hateley scores two, the second from a dreadful Parkin back-pass, and misses an easy chance for his hat-trick. Thompson is suspended and Francis limps off with back problems. City continue their climb.