Very tempted & nearly at the point of return. Had this been in a couple of weeks I’d have made the trip. Gutted about that. Hull (the real) City of Culture 3-0 Cheap Culture Wannabes.
August 1966, newly promoted to Div 2 and away to Coventry. As a sixteen year old, my cousin and I washed cars for two days to pay the train fare and ticket to the game. I remember walking from the station to Highfield Road and seeing more brown faces than I'd ever seen in my life. There was a movie theatre with posters of the stars wearing turbans or red dots on their foreheads and shops with squiggly lettering offering deals painted on the windows. It really was a revelation. I had a beautiful silk top hat with a rosette and amber ribbons and in those days fans at the grounds weren't separated and some noisome Coventry bint knocked it off my head and the gleeful ****s around us stamped and destroyed it. I think we lost 0-1. Anyway, **** Coventry ... and their bombing doesn't compare to our city's blitz!
Anything from this game will be welcome, I would take a point now. Hopefully, for them, it will be after the lord mayors show, and they peaked last Saturday.
stuffed monkey and stuffed tiger fell off the old monitor yesterday. i haven't located stuffed monkey but stuffed tiger is back on top of the old monitor again. this change to location and formation is expected to have a bearing on tonight's game as changes are generally followed by a change in city form. fingers crossed that it's a positive change. if not, i'll relocate one or both again. there's a city badge that is meant to be with them, but it's weeks since that disappeared into the general environment. fingers crossed.
Score first so we have something to defend and encourage our lads, then fancy us to grab at least a point. They score first, it's going to be an uphill task. We are as fickle as that
At the moment playing away suits our style better, our lack of goal threat counts against us. KLP will get an early chance to score again. He he scores we win the game, if he misses then we have a long night ahead of us. I suspect Wilks will be on the bench tonight, not sure Shota is keen on him though.
Agreed, he needs managing properly but he can score. Feel he’d have more to offer than Longman at the moment.
Wilks will want to impress Shota and also show any scouts that his fitness levels are improving. Wilks knows the season is coming to an end and he won't get a look in next season at City if Acun gets the chequebook out to bring in new strikers. He needs to showcase his talent to attract a move in the summer. League 1 beckons for him again I'm afraid.
Wilks has looked chunky for a while. Haven’t noticed it on Moncur and Cannon since they haven’t got many minutes for a while. Scott’s had fitness/weight issues here and currently at Hibs. It’s quite shocking that even in this day and age with professional nutritionists and fitness standards that professional players can still be overweight and way off the mark in terms of fitness. The worst example was when Hazard turned up for training at Madrid for the first time and was two stone overweight. It’s unacceptable tbh when they’re getting paid as much as they are.
Coventry was the first City in the UK to have an Ikea. Fed up with her husband’s high taxes on the people of Coventry, Lady Godiva rode through the town naked so he would revoke them. No-one looked at her, apart from some fellow called Tom, and this is where the term Peeping Tom comes from. Although in reality, it never happened, and the story was invented by Benedictine monks 250 years after her death. The name Coventry originated from the word Coventre. The word Coventre is derived from the two words ‘Covent’, which stands in for Convent, and ‘tre’, which stands for settlement. Britain's car industry was founded by Daimler in a disused Coventry cotton mill in 1896. All modern bicycles are descended from John Kemp Starley's Rover safety cycle, invented in Coventry in 1885. The first £5 note in a worker's peacetime wage was paid in Coventry during the 1950's. The city was the birthplace of jet pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, the poet Philip Larkin and the pop impresario Pete Waterman. The expression 'true blue' has Coventry origins and dates from the 14th century, when cloth dyed Coventry blue became very fashionable and expensive. The first tank, the first traffic indicators for cars and the first dumper truck were built in Coventry. The first motorised funeral was held in the city. The phrase 'sent to Coventry' originated during the English Civil War, when captured Royalists were imprisoned in the heavily fortified and strongly pro-Parliament city. They were given a hard time by the local people. Dick Whittington was member of one of Coventry's mediaeval craft guilds. Chuck Berry recorded his number one hit 'My Ding-A-Ling' at a Coventry dance hall. Coventry Transport Museum has the biggest collection of British made cars, motorcycles and bicycles in the world. It has more bedfords than all the hotels in Portugal. The minis in the sewer scenes in The Italian Job, were filmed in Coventry. Two-Tone music, British Ska, came out of Coventry in the late 1970s, through bands like The Specials and Selecter. Ghost Town, the Specials’ biggest hit, was actually written about Glasgow, not Coventry. In 1948, work started on Coventry’s traffic-free shopping centre, the first in Europe. Rotterdam’s opened for business months later. Legend has it the dragon-slayer and patron saint of England was born in Coventry and was a central figure for the city.
