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Matchday Thread Coventry City v PNE -23/02/24 - KO:7.45PM

Matchday Thread Coventry City v PNE -23/02/24 - KO:7.45PM

HunterLionheart said:
He won the header with a great leap, and just wanted it more. There's a reason the guy he beat for it didn't appeal.
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And why he was getting slated by his fans rather than calling for fouls

We’ve got a few weird fans that seem to want to find flaw in us scoring goals 😂😂
 
HunterLionheart said:
He won the header with a great leap, and just wanted it more. There's a reason the guy he beat for it didn't appeal.
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I have seen fouls given for things like that- but it would have been wrong. I don’t think any player appealed - and all the social media from Cov fans has been about Andrew Hughes killing their number 7 rather than any foul for that Riis goal.
 
Regardless said:
I have seen fouls given for things like that- but it would have been wrong. I don’t think any player appealed - and all the social media from Cov fans has been about Andrew Hughes killing their number 7 rather than any foul for that Riis goal.
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And if you follow @Farmboy's logic, we'd have got a free kick for Sakamoto fouling Hughes for leaping on him.
 
No Danger said:
1966 was the last time against Manchester United.
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The last time I suppose was the replay at Old Trafford that we lost 3-1 despite everyone agreeing we were the better team. I can remember my dad and uncle Tommy setting off for that match. I was at the initial match at our place - a 1-1 draw but if Nobby Stiles had not brought his kneecap up into Brian Godfrey's midriff with about two minutes left when Godfrey would otherwise have been clean through then we might have made the semi-finals again. When people go on about the 'magic' of that mid-60s MUFC side - Best, Law, Charlton - they do rather forget that if the magic didn't quite deliver there was always Stiles' kneecap as a last resort.
 
ernest said:
The last time I suppose was the replay at Old Trafford that we lost 3-1 despite everyone agreeing we were the better team. I can remember my dad and uncle Tommy setting off for that match. I was at the initial match at our place - a 1-1 draw but if Nobby Stiles had not brought his kneecap up into Brian Godfrey's midriff with about two minutes left when Godfrey would otherwise have been clean through then we might have made the semi-finals again. When people go on about the 'magic' of that mid-60s MUFC side - Best, Law, Charlton - they do rather forget that if the magic didn't quite deliver there was always Stiles' kneecap as a last resort.
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I remember it too. Another nearly game for us. 🙄
 
ernest said:
The last time I suppose was the replay at Old Trafford that we lost 3-1 despite everyone agreeing we were the better team. I can remember my dad and uncle Tommy setting off for that match. I was at the initial match at our place - a 1-1 draw but if Nobby Stiles had not brought his kneecap up into Brian Godfrey's midriff with about two minutes left when Godfrey would otherwise have been clean through then we might have made the semi-finals again. When people go on about the 'magic' of that mid-60s MUFC side - Best, Law, Charlton - they do rather forget that if the magic didn't quite deliver there was always Stiles' kneecap as a last resort.
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Yeah Ernest, must be about the same age. I was at the Deepdale game but no chance for the replay...still in my first year at secondary. Remember thinking we felt in control that first hour or so at Deepdale
 
Kendale said:
Yeah Ernest, must be about the same age. I was at the Deepdale game but no chance for the replay...still in my first year at secondary. Remember thinking we felt in control that first hour or so at Deepdale
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Pretty well exact contemporaries - I was in my first year at the old Preston Catholic College.

As for the match it was superb. Our FA Cup campaigns have been pretty disappointing over the years but at least I can remember when we did well at a time when the competition was still a nerve-wracking contrast between either exultation or despair - there really was no in-between status. I suppose the Play-Offs today have something of the same character and maybe we will make them again this season - I have always felt that is possible.

But before we focus on Saturday here both for those who remember and those who don't is a little tase of that match all those years ago:

 
As we are on Coventry v PNE, I remember going to their old Highfield road ground for a FA cup match circa mid sixties, sadly can't remember the result so it can't have been too memorable.🤣
 
ernest said:
Pretty well exact contemporaries - I was in my first year at the old Preston Catholic College.

As for the match it was superb. Our FA Cup campaigns have been pretty disappointing over the years but at least I can remember when we did well at a time when the competition was still a nerve-wracking contrast between either exultation or despair - there really was no in-between status. I suppose the Play-Offs today have something of the same character and maybe we will make them again this season - I have always felt that is possible.

But before we focus on Saturday here both for those who remember and those who don't is a little tase of that match all those years ago:

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Did not attend Ernest but certainly remembered watching this on Match of the Day.
The legendary small wall at the back of the Spion Kop collapsed that day I believe due to crowd issues.
 
ernest said:
The last time I suppose was the replay at Old Trafford that we lost 3-1 despite everyone agreeing we were the better team. I can remember my dad and uncle Tommy setting off for that match. I was at the initial match at our place - a 1-1 draw but if Nobby Stiles had not brought his kneecap up into Brian Godfrey's midriff with about two minutes left when Godfrey would otherwise have been clean through then we might have made the semi-finals again. When people go on about the 'magic' of that mid-60s MUFC side - Best, Law, Charlton - they do rather forget that if the magic didn't quite deliver there was always Stiles' kneecap as a last resort.
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Played in the days when teams played full strength line ups in Cup matches.
 
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