Just up the M6 is a city.
The city is called Coventry.
Coventry has a football club.
I think I went to see Watford against Coventry twice up at Highfield Road...though I can't actually remember, maybe it was just the once....once would have been bad enough.
From what I can remember, games against Coventry have never really set the footy world alight....thinking like that it makes you wonder what the FA Cup final of 1987 would have been like if Watford had beaten Spurs in the semi final to make it a Watford - Coventry final....hardly sounds like the type of final that people would want to get up at silly o'clock in the morning to watch worldwide like what has happened with normal FA Cup finals does it?
There were two reasons why I wanted to go to Coventry, one was that I have a bit of a soft spot for them...don't know why, and the other was for the fantastic kit they had made for them to incorporate their official club sponsor at the time, Talbot
It was so good I had to get the subbuteo team as soon as it came out!!
March 5th 1983 was my first trip up to Coventry, a fellow schoolfriend and myself took a club coach up to the city to view the ground, the first ever all-seated stadium, thanks to Jimmy Hill apparently.
He was the person who thought that if people sat down and watched a game that they wouldn't cause trouble...hmmm...
I never really thought much of Jimmy Hill to be honest.
Though to be fair, Jimmy Hill has done a lot for the club, including making a song for the club to sing...which is even sung by the fans to this day.
The club song was written in 1962 actually by the then manager Jimmy Hill and director John Camkin.
It was launched at the home game with Colchester on 22 December 1962 (a match abandoned at half-time because of fog) with the words printed in the programme.
It quickly became popular with supporters during the epic FA Cup run in 1963 when the then Third Division team reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup before losing to eventual winners Manchester United.
To the tune of the Eton Boating Song:
Not that there was any trouble at this particular game against Watford, there wasn't...in fact there was absolutely bugger all happening at all....though it finished 1-0 to Watford.
For the life of me though I really can't remember the other time I went....but I'm sure I did.
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