Memories

Notts County away in the Play-Offs
The Sky Blue Deck

Game in the picture is right up there. Absolutely magical afternoon. Got a phone call last minute from my uncle saying he had a spare ticket. Remember running home from school to get changed and go. Worth everything. Unreal.
Callum Moseley

Flying from Melbourne to see the City at Wembley for the Checkatrade Trophy – what a week, then the following year for the Play Off Final.
Mark Murphy

Last ever game at HR. I regret not getting into the stadium as soon as it opened allowing me to soak in every last second of it.
Lee

Holding the FA Cup in 1987
Sue Niblett

I once met lan Beale in the concourse of a home game.
Josh Shale

I was born in Warnford hospital in Leamington in 1952 to a Welsh father and a Harbury born mother. We lived at 32 Grove Street in my grandfather’s three storey house until he and my grandmother passed away in 1959,  we then moved to Coventry where I still live today. My father was a rugby fan (Newport and Wales then Coventry) and had no interest in football. He came home from work one evening in 1963 and announced that he had been given two tickets for Coventry City’s FA Cup match against Sunderland the following day. Up to that point I had no idea where Highfield Road was and my only football experience was playing with my friends on the Charterhouse fields (soon to become the new Bluecoat school playing fields) a few memories of that night that have stayed with me to this day. I’d never seen so many people and heard so much noise in my entire life but that night something changed in me. I remember Dietmar’s goal and then big George heading the eventual winner, I have no recollection of walking home but from that night I was hooked.

I became a regular at Highfield Road and watched my heroes for many years. My heroes back then were George Hudson, Ian Gibson, Bill Glazier, Ronnie Farmer, Dave Clements, John Sillett and the Iron man George Curtis (who would have thought that 20 years later those two would take us to Wembley and win the cup).

I was in the crowd on the day we played Wolves (I was on the running track at the Kop end as I couldn’t get into my normal spot in the covered end). I watched Willie Carr flick the ball up for Ernie Hunt to volley the ‘Donkey kick’ goal. In 1987 I was the transport manager at the Evening Telegraph and ‘that day’ was the busiest since the end of the war, I watched the final in the Telegraph club on site at Corporation Street with all the press operators, they were mostly Brummies and supported the Blues or Villa, they were able to watch extra time but were then called to start running the press for the Pink edition. At the final whistle these non Coventry fans stood up as one and clapped which was a truly emotional moment for us all. Then of course Coventry City centre became a car park as thousands of people came into the City Centre.

I firmly believed I would never see that again but it looks like history may repeat itself (possibly tonight – 17th April 2026). I apologise for the length of this email but as a now armchair fan I had to express my thoughts at this time.
Keith Roberts. PUSB