0% villa -Coventry city on the brink?

[eastie]

Thanks andy , maybe highfield road was 11000?

What was our Southampton home Gate that season out of interest please?
i remember it being very sparse that afternoon.

[WikiVilla]

Wasn't Southampton about 8500
Dave W posted the figure couple of weeks back

[eastie]

Sorry lads, just looked it up and Quinn did only score 2 goals that day in the 52nd and 55th minutes, Rosario got the third on 59 minutes, checked out now on 2 sources and definately rosario with the 3rd.
still an awful boxing day though!

[damon loves JT]

At least everyone seems to remember they're a football club, not a terrorist organisation

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Southampton home was in the October 16,211.
Lowest league crowds at VP that season were 12,304 against Norwich and 12,484 against Wimbledon.
That was in the days when you would count the Wimbledon away following and have a debate with your mates whether they had brought 43 or 44.
Season average was 18,171.

[WikiVilla]

Sorry lads, just looked it up and Quinn did only score 2 goals that day in the 52nd and 55th minutes, Rosario got the third on 59 minutes, checked out now on 2 sources and definately rosario with the 3rd.
still an awful boxing day though!

One of quinns was a diving header, that's about all I recall from that shite day

[olaftab]

Clearly we walked out at 2-0!

[WikiVilla]

I'm sure Southampton is our lowest home gate

[damon loves JT]

I remember George Boateng taking us to the cleaners in a performance he never replicated.

[WikiVilla]

I remember George Boateng taking us to the cleaners in a performance he never replicated.

Yep fa cup at B6
2-4 ?

[eastie]

Southampton home was in the October 16,211.
Lowest league crowds at VP that season were 12,304 against Norwich and 12,484 against Wimbledon.
That was in the days when you would count the Wimbledon away following and have a debate with your mates whether they had brought 43 or 44.
Season average was 18,171.

 Sorry andy i was thinking of 85-86
coventry home was 12,198 and southampton home was 8,456 , and both games were dreadful draws.
The crowd at highfield road was 10000, a 3-3 drawand i remember withey in goal i think?

[eastie]

I remember George Boateng taking us to the cleaners in a performance he never replicated.

Yep fa cup at B6
2-4 ?

1-4 still known in coventry as the valentines day massacre, indeed that was the video cover title of the game, needless to say it sold extremely well.

[damon loves JT]

I don't remember the details, just a frustration at the Luftwaffe's lack of thoroughness

[bob]

There was a good piece by a Cov fan in WSC recently. Almost prophetic, really. Just observing how the team perpetually have nothing to play for, in front of strangely passive crowds slowly dwindling away to nothing. The club has just atrophied since relegation

One of my best friends is a Cov fan. Yesterday he told me they were the only club to have never finished in the top 6 in any division in the last 50 years or something like that.

He, and all Cov fans I have ever met, without exception, will say they 'hate' the Villa. They must give them a manifesto about how to respond as it is without doubt ingrained in all of their psyches. It winds them up more if you act indifferent. They 'hate' because the rivally is not reciprocal. Vila have always had bigger fish to fry, and their envy manifests itself as 'hate' as they would personally choose to describe it.

[eastie]

There was a good piece by a Cov fan in WSC recently. Almost prophetic, really. Just observing how the team perpetually have nothing to play for, in front of strangely passive crowds slowly dwindling away to nothing. The club has just atrophied since relegation

One of my best friends is a Cov fan. Yesterday he told me they were the only club to have never finished in the top 6 in any division in the last 50 years or something like that.

He, and all Cov fans I have ever met, without exception, will say they 'hate' the Villa. They must give them a manifesto about how to respond as it is without doubt ingrained in all of their psyches. It winds them up more if you act indifferent. They 'hate' because the rivally is not reciprocal. Vila have always had bigger fish to fry, and their envy manifests itself as 'hate' as they would personally choose to describe it.

Hes wrong there bob as they won the league division 2 title under jimmy hill and finished 6th qualifying for europe a couple of years later, over the last 40 yrs however they have never finished in the top 6 in any league.