Game #2754 | League game #2506
Season game #24 | Division One game #22
Highfield Road # | Don Mackay game #
Coventry City 21st | West Ham United 12th (22)

Don Mackay's first game as manager.

Cottee’s winner is City’s twelfth goal conceded in the last ten minutes this season. Kirk Stephens had appeared to have earrned City a point with a deflected shot, but this is an unhappy start for Mackay despite a better performance. Gould wins Mercia’s sports personality of the year poll.