Michael Doyle leaves
@Coventry_City
for the second time having made 373 appearances, the seventh highest by a City player and easily the highest by a 21st century player. 332 league, 41 Cup and 26 goals. A true legend.
For the first time in
@Coventry_City
‘s history the team have entered February with only 3 defeats. In 1964 Jimmy Hill’s great team suffered their fourth defeat on 22 January.
Interesting stat:
@Coventry_City
spent only three days in the bottom 3 all season. They went 22nd after game 8 at Boro in October & came out on the Friday night by beating Reading.
All being well
@Coventry_City
's Kyle McFadzean will make his 100th appearance for the club at Bournemouth. Arguably our best centre half since Mo Konjic he is the best form of his career right now.
Michael Doyle's appearance at Wembley was his 349th for
@Coventry_City
& he is into the top ten all-time most appearances for the club, level with 1950s defender Roy Kirk.
Successive home wins from behind for
@Coventry_City
today. First time ever at CBS/Ricoh. Did it at St Andrews two years ago but last time in Coventry was 1989!
The last time
@Coventry_City
lost a home FA Cup tie 4-3 was in 1967 to Newcastle. They recovered to gain promotion to the First Division three months later. An omen?
@Coventry_City
fans should recognise they are enjoying one of the finest seasons in the club’s history. Seasons like this come along very rarely and we need to enjoy it.
There were 22,150
@Coventry_City
fans in the 24,492 crowd today. Only 3 times in league games has this been bettered since we moved to the Arena in 2005. Fantastic support.
Fantastic crowd of 16,372 for
@Coventry_City
v Cardiff. Four years ago for the first evening home game we had 6,151 for visit of Carlisle. What progress
19,014
@Coventry_City
fans at the game on Friday. Gillingham 2014 apart that was 2nd highest for a night league game since we moved to Ricoh in 2005. Only topped by 21,841 v Blues in 2006.
After Tuesday’s game
@Coventry_City
‘s average home attendance for 2023-24 is guaranteed to be over 25,000. The highest since 1970-71 when the Sky Blues were in Europe and finished 10th in the old First Division.
Very sad to hear of the passing of George Curtis. Legendary captain of
@Coventry_City
& as important to the Sky Blue Revolution as Jimmy Hill. His influence on the club extended to 1987 & beyond. RIP George
@ccfpa
@Coventry_City
‘s attendance of 23,694 is the biggest of the season with over 22,000 home supporters. Anything over 21,700 will take the season average over 20,000 for the first time since 2006-07. Five years ago we were averaging 9,200.
Amazingly yesterday was the first time
@Coventry_City
have come from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 since 1932 at Reading. (A pen shootout is counted as a draw!). Torp’s goal would have been a first .
@SkyBluesHistory
Am I right in saying that last nights victory for
@Coventry_City
was first time a side has drawn a Playoff semi final home first leg & gone through by winning the second leg since the Sky Blues did it in L2 playoffs in 2018.
Michael Rose's red card was the fastest by a
@Coventry_City
player since 2007 when Michael Mifsud was sent off after 11 minutes v WBA at Ricoh. We lost that one 4-0 too & Tony Mowbray was Baggies boss.
This week Mark Robins overtook Gordon Strachan and his reign as
@coventry_city
boss is now 4th longest behind Harry Storer, Gordon Milne & Jimmy Hill. I make it 4 years 313 days in his second spell.
@AndyTurnerccfc
@BBCCWRSport
Ben Wilson’s penalty save was the first by a
@Coventry_City
keeper in a league game for five years.
@LeeBurge01
was last to save one v Peterborough April 2017.
6 home wins in a row for
@Coventry_City
. Fittingly best run since 1987 when Cyrille was in his pomp. Did win 6 league in a row in 2006 but FAC draw in middle.
Four straight home wins is
@Coventry_City
's best start to home season in Coventry since 1973-74 when they won first five. They did win first 5 at St Andrews in 2019-20.
The last club to keep two clean sheets & win an away 2nd leg in Championship playoffs were Crystal Palace in 2013. They finished 5th in regular season (like
@Coventry_City
) and won at Wembley by beating 3rd placed Watford. An omen🧐
Another
@Coventry_City
bogey smashed. First ever win over WBA at Ricoh/CBS in six visits & first home win against them since Johnnie Jackson’s 89th minute winner 19 years & 1 day ago.
56 years ago tomorrow a record Highfield Road crowd of 51,452 watched the Midlands Match of the Century v Wolves. I was one of the boys on the touchline. Tomorrow will see a record league crowd at the CBS for one of the matches of this century.
Don’t give up hope. After 41 games last season we were 9th on 59 pts. Three behind 6th place Blackburn who had a game in hand. In this league anything can happen,
The attendance at Wembley (85,711) was the third highest crowd ever to watch
@Coventry_City
only topped by the FA Cup final & Charity Shield game in 1987.
#pusb
By my reckoning
@Coventry_City
manager Mark Robins is currently fifth highest English born manager in the 92 clubs. Only Potter, Smith, Dyche, Bruce and Parker ahead of him.
Myself and other older city fans in agreement that last night was
@Coventry_City
's greatest occasion since 1987. An awesome performance & an awesome result.
Yesterday Kyle McFadzean became first
@Coventry_City
player to score at both ends in a game since
@bussty67
v Spurs in 1995-96. Sorry to remind you Dave.
Another stat: Gillingham & Tranmere only teams to have played City in league games at Highfield Rd, Ricoh, Sixfields & St Andrews. The lockdown is getting to me!
Looking at the final table only the top five teams had less home defeats than
@Coventry_City
. I'll miss Fortress St Andrews. Only seven defeats there in 46 matches.
Magnificent team performance tonight. They took a leaf out of the
@Coventry_City
Relegation battling handbook compiled in the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s. Brilliant.
In fifteen seasons of tier 2 football since 2001 only Viktor Gyokeres has scored more league goals in a season for
@Coventry_City
than Haji Wright’s 16 this campaign.
Interesting stat:
@Coventry_City
haven't lost consecutive home league games since March 2017 when we lost the first two games following Mark Robins' arrival
So pleased
@Coventry_City
won tonight. I didn’t want to use the dreadful stat that we’ve never lost 4 league games in a row at CBS. Last time was in 2005 at Highfield Road
The curse strikes again. Brentford, Sheff Utd, Sunderland, Lincoln and now Exeter who all play in red and white stripes and black shorts, have never won the play offs. They have 26 Play off appearances between them, 12 finals and lost the lot.
Mark Robins’ away league record as
@Coventry_City
manager now reads 26 wins from 60 games, a 43% win ratio. Incredible record when you consider Jimmy Hill’s was 27%.
Last time
@Coventry_City
came from 2 down to win by two was at Wycombe in FLT in 2016-17 (4-2). Last time in league was I think 1946 v Millwall - 3-1 down won 5-3.
@MattyGodden24
‘s two goals for
@Coventry_City
last night takes him to 45 league goals for the club & into top 20 all-time scorers. He’s level with Ernie Hunt and two behind Cyrille Regis & Ron Farmer. Well done Matty.