Let's all sing together.. in a sensible and well-mannered fashion.
Whilst tidying out the blog, I stumbled across a few interviews with various Sky Blues personnel that I'd pointed out over the years. I find the sequence of videos below a staggering indication of just how much Sisu have buggered up our club, and in such a short period of time. They're all from BBC Late Kick Off's annual piece on Coventry, and I'll warn you now - they're so full of naivety, false hope and blatant fibs, it may well make you sob.
Highlights from BBC Sport website - Leeds 1- 1 Coventry UK users only, and it probably won't work great on mobiles I'm afraid. Soz to pretty much everyone who'll read this on a mobile, and also my one reader from Vietnam. Edit 01/11/11: Times up. BBC videos are only available for a short while, meaning this has since been removed.
It's fair to say the 90 minute mark has been our cue to fanny things up just lately. I'll admit that I didn't hold out much hope for us coming into this game, given our dismal away record. I'd also had a little look over the squads beforehand, and it made for scary reading. It really emphasises the difference in options when you see players like Mikael Forssell and Luciano Becchio sat on the bench twiddling their thumbs, then look back at ours and have Sky Blue Sam waving back at you.
Not to worry. We started off brightly enough, and as I'd given Sammy Clingan a talking up for a piece I'd done for a Leeds blog the night before, it was nice to see him having an early shot to confirm my keenness about his right boot. We then fell under an increasing amount of pressure, and once O'Dea had knocked them in front, the other away losses began to play on my mind. If it wasn't for Joe Murphy, who I'll admit he and I haven't seen eye-to-eye with so far this season (a metaphor in every sense; we've clearly never met), Leeds would have been home and dry long before we were able to pile on the pressure in the final period of the game.
It made me laugh, really. After the Forest game, I whinged about how little time we usually spend in the opponents half in the final stages of games, whether we're winning, losing or drawing. Away at Leeds you'd expect this to be the case even more so. They sat back surprisingly deep however, and really gave us the opportunity to have a go at them. And have a go we did.
We didn't create any clear cut chances, but it was pleasing to see us forcing the issue and putting them under genuine pressure for what seemed like a prolonged period of play (by our standards). Obviously we'd love it to be like that for 90 minutes. But this isn't World Cup '98 on the N64, and none of our players have that works-everytime rollover trick in their locker. Feel free to ignore my football game analogies by the way. They're essentially the same, just with a different game each time. Next week, I explain why David Bell belongs in World Cup Italia '90.
Sorry, I digress.
We really stuck at it, and were a testament to the team spirit that Thorn is undoubtedly bringing to our tiny group of players. I'm sure we all felt that time had ran out for us when Rachubka's unexpected and pretty inexplicable error left Woody with the opportunity to pinch the draw for us, which he duly converted.
Cue delirium and a mass invasion of regular personal space.
Last minute goals; I love you.
Last week Coventry City sold Daniel Fox to Celtic and everyone got a little bit bothered by it all.
I was just the same and had some harsh words to say on the subject (Facebook has never seen such crossness).
Still can't quite work out whether it was the fact we'd sold another of our best players, or the ridiculous prices I was reading him being sold for, which riled me so. £1.5 million was the fee being banded around the big websites, which if true, is utterly ludicrous given those Kyles from Sheffield Utd cost Spurs £10 million all-together.
But anyway, enough of that mumbo-jumbo, I just wanted to share this.
Not condoning the potty talk (and hideous use of the exclamation mark), but this is actually quite funny. Made me chuckle anyway.
I’m sure if we had started playing keep-ball the fans would have been disappointed, but when it’s that late in the day you should probably be a bit more professional about it and settle for the one point.
In an attempt to keep myself sane over the course of the 09/10 season, I decided to use this blog as a place to let off steam and vent my thoughts about Coventry City's progress.
That all seemed to go quite nicely (the blogging side of things, not the team performance), so two years later, and I'm still doing it - rambling away whenever there is something worth rambling about.
The plan is to focus my attention on writing in this, as opposed to indiscriminate ranting at anyone who'll listen, which always tended to be my main outlet. I never really envisaged it becoming a widely viewed Coventry City blog (as my points often annoy), but it's always good to see my posts popping up on forums with people discussing my waffle.
lt's also quite interesting to look back at how many times during the season I threaten to stop supporting them and form my own breakaway club; FC Coventry City Mönchengladbach Saint-Germain.
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