A side issue. 25 years ago today Coventry City won the FA Cup, an unlikely victory against a Tottenham Hotspur side containing Clive Allen (scored 50 goals that season), Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle, Ossie Ardiles and Ray Clemence, amongst others.
Now they are languishing in League 1, thanks to a faceless Finnish hedge fund bunch of crooks, swindlers and jokers. Everyone at SISU, die a painful death.
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Side issue two. A little story about when my dad and uncle were coming back from the cup final. My uncle had a sky blue Ford Cortina, and he was going to sell it earlier in the year but as the cup run progressed he kept hold of it, and eventually ended up driving it to Wembley Stadium. When they turned up Wembley was actually closed, they were too early. Obviously this was the 80s and it was common to be completely shitfaced, so that's what they got to doing for the next 5 hours.
No one gave Coventry a cat in Hell's chance of getting anything from the game. The idea was to keep it tight for the first 20. Spurs scored after 2 minutes. Eventually Coventry came back to win the game after ET with a deflected goal.
Anyway, by the end of the game they had sobered up, probably from excitement. Walking out of Wembley it was obviously like walking on the clouds, Arsenal fans were running up and shaking their hands. Stuff I will never see in this context.
On the drive home (a bit more lax in those days
) they noticed they were being hounded by a group of lads in another car. They were not far from leaving London and had to stop at some lights. This car pulled up alongside them at the lights, the front side window wound down and the guy shouted 'oi, lads', they turned around and a sawed-off shotgun was being pointed at them through the window. Needless to say they shit themselves and ducked for cover in the car. At this point the lights changed and the other car sped off with a car full of blokes laughing their asses off. I think the rest of the weekend was a blur.
I don't think I'll ever get to experience a day like that with my hometown club in my lifetime. I just have to be thankful that my old man had good taste and I've been able to understand what Juventus is from an early age.