Coventry come to life at last – are their slapstick days behind them?
After years of circling the drain, Coventry City didn’t so much drop out of the Premier League 25 years ago as face-plant through its floorboards in slapstick style. In the intervening period, they endured their first experience of the fourth tier and were forced to live as tenants in their own city, before suffering the indignity of having to go cap-in-hand to neighbouring villages, looking for sofas on which to crash.
Even the more recent good times were frustrating for the Sky Blues, as they lost a Championship playoff decider on penalties and were cruelly denied a place in the 2024 FA Cup final within the space of 11 months. It was all a far cry from that joyous afternoon in 1987 when Brian “Killer” Kilcline limped up the Wembley steps to hoist the FA Cup aloft.
Re: the Memory Lane item on the Wales v Scotland World Cup qualifier in 1977 (yesterday’s Football Daily, full email edition) ignited my own memory of attending that game with my Welsh mate Alwyn. Although it was supposedly a Wales home game, my impression was that there were at least three Scots for every ultimately disappointed (and furious) Welsh fan inside Anfield. That game also gives rise to a quiz question, albeit one that only those of a certain vintage would get.
Who scored a goal playing for the away team on his home ground and it wasn’t an own goal? The answer, of course, is Kenny Dalglish” – John Myles. While everyone else was either watching Coventry v Newcastle or doing something normal like...
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