[Albion] Most Coventry fans think they're going to get absolutely battered on Saturday

[Buzzer]

How times change. I can remember playing them at Withdean and thinking that we were up against a big club.

Always had a lot of affection for Coventry. The Specials, that 70s blue home and brown away kit, their Cup Final. A very decent club whose fans deserve so much more than what they are getting.

 

[Drumstick]

Anyone see the piece by Juice FM? Disgraceful calling Coventry minnows. In many ways a bigger club than us!

Never go there for sport stuff but even so.


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[Is it PotG?]

How times change. I can remember playing them at Withdean and thinking that we were up against a big club.

Always had a lot of affection for Coventry. The Specials, that 70s blue home and brown away kit, their Cup Final. A very decent club whose fans deserve so much more than what they are getting.

 

[clarkey]

Look at the form guide. We beat them 2-0 last time at The Amex!

Wasn't it 2-1 that day? Gary Gardner scored for them - signing him must have been the beginning of the end for them, as it almost was for us.

 

[Mackenzie]

I've just chucked a fiver on him to bag a hattrick @33s.

Printing money.

Good luck.

 

[Hotchilidog]

How times change. I can remember playing them at Withdean and thinking that we were up against a big club.

Always had a lot of affection for Coventry. The Specials, that 70s blue home and brown away kit, their Cup Final. A very decent club whose fans deserve so much more than what they are getting.

Good point well made, and one not lost on Coventry fans either.

It is surreal how things have turned around.

If there is anti-SISU protest we can get in on tomorrow I'd be happy to join in.

 

[LamieRobertson]

So no one fancies 10/1 on Coventry?

 

[Buzzer]

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Of all the paintings of Lady Godiva to choose, you picked the one with a Brighton connection.

Painted by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, a bit of a rarity because when his country was obsessed with Impressionism, his style was Classical/Pre-Raphaelite which the French regarded as stuffy, English-centric and archaic. Coventry Council offered to buy the painting from Lefebvre but he practically gave it away instead to the city of Amiens.

How do I know all this? Because I used to date an artist and she took me to an exhibition of Lefebvre's works at Hove Museum a few years back. Brighton and Hove Council collaborated with Amiens on a huge art exhibition.

http://www.amiens.fr/uploads/media/CP_LADY_GODIVA_ENGLISH.pdf

 

[Is it PotG?]

Of all the paintings of Lady Godiva to choose, you picked the one with a Brighton connection.

Painted by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, a bit of a rarity because when his country was obsessed with Impressionism, his style was Classical/Pre-Raphaelite which the French regarded as stuffy, English-centric and archaic. Coventry Council offered to buy the painting from Lefebvre but he practically gave it away instead to the city of Amiens.

How do I know all this? Because I used to date an artist and she took me to an exhibition of Lefebvre's works at Hove Museum a few years back. Brighton and Hove Council collaborated with Amiens on a huge art exhibition.

http://www.amiens.fr/uploads/media/CP_LADY_GODIVA_ENGLISH.pdf

I wish I could say it was deliberate, but nice story

 

[Insel affe]

It could be a banana skin.

Any of FA cup cliches? I'm sure CH won't let the players think they've only got to turn up.

Poo Poo

This has 5-0 written all over it, 2-0 by half time and cruise control the second half.... It's a given

 

[jakarta]

How times change. I can remember playing them at Withdean and thinking that we were up against a big club.

Always had a lot of affection for Coventry.

I don't, I was a student there at Lanchester Polytechnic in the early 1980's and it was an utter shithole, horrible feeling of violence from both sides of the racial divide (a fellow student and mate was waiting at a bus stop when 4 young black lads got out of a car and beat the shit out of him - it was just after a fatal stabbing carried out by skinheads on a black guy in the Town Centre the previous weekend).

Another mate of mine lived very close to Highfield Road and I was stupid enough to go around to see him when West Ham were visiting for League Cup tie, what a bunch of animals they were, don't think many of them watched the game.

Terry Hall and the Specials used my local Chippy and I can confirm that he was as miserable a sod as he appeared to be on TV. Pukka Pie, Chips and Curry Sauce before you ask.

On a happier note I did have a thorough and exhausting sexual education through a fellow students Landlady (recently divorced nurse and a saucy little minx) for several months. Otherwise it is a place I'm happy to forget.

 

[Buzzer]

Strange how all the photos of the Coventry 70s kit are of Ian Wallace. As much as Vivienne Westwood's punk designs are an important cultural reference for the 70s, so is that strip and should be an exhibit in the V&A.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Poo Poo

This has 5-0 written all over it, 2-0 by half time and cruise control the second half.... It's a given

Don't be harsh. I don't think Krul will let in 5. Three maybe.

 

[Buzzer]

I don't, I was a student there at Lanchester Polytechnic in the early 1980's and it was an utter shithole, horrible feeling of violence from both sides of the racial divide (a fellow student and mate was waiting at a bus stop when 4 young black lads got out of a car and beat the shit out of him - it was just after a fatal stabbing carried out by skinheads on a black guy in the Town Centre the previous weekend).

Another mate of mine lived very close to Highfield Road and I was stupid enough to go around to see him when West Ham were visiting for League Cup tie, what a bunch of animals they were, don't think many of them watched the game.

Terry Hall and the Specials used my local Chippy and I can confirm that he was as miserable a sod as he appeared to be on TV. Pukka Pie, Chips and Curry Sauce before you ask.

On a happier note I did have a thorough and exhausting sexual education through a fellow students Landlady (recently divorced nurse and a saucy little minx) for several months. Otherwise it is a place I'm happy to forget.

Blimey. I have no first hand experience but I do have a very good friend who went to the same place in the early 90s when it had become a Uni. He came out the closet whilst a student and he's spoken of the place with some affection (tempered with a bit of gallows humour).

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Never look a gift dog in the ear.

or the rear, as its worth 2 in the bush...

 

[el punal]

Strange how all the photos of the Coventry 70s kit are of Ian Wallace. As much as Vivienne Westwood's punk designs are an important cultural reference for the 70s, so is that strip and should be an exhibit in the V&A.

There does seem to be something wrong with those shorts. Mr Wallace does not seem to dress to the left, or the right. The fellow on the right of Wallace seems to be tugging at part of his anatomy. Bless my soul!

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

The world should be our lobster on this match but their recent results have got nothing to do with anything you often see a drop in form before a big game, they are not a bad side and will be right up for it, I will be shocked if they have not sold their allocation.
Krul being far too tall for a goalie is also a worry for me.

 

[boik]

It could be a banana skin.

Any of FA cup cliches? I'm sure CH won't let the players think they've only got to turn up.

Or as Stuart Pearce once said "A potential potato skin"!

 

[worthingseagull123]

Don't forget that it is their 'Cup Final' to coin a phrase.

Is it?

They have already played Stoke.

 

[Westdene Wonder]

We must go for them right from the kickoff then bring on the subs to give the first team a breather for the next league game.