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The Opponent:  Coventry City

Darn Gremlins. Here we go again. So Coventry, the city that was the 3rd most bombed city by the Luftwaffe in WWII, are today’s opponents. A good following from Warwickshire is expected today with the Arkells corner sold out but heavy rain is forecast which could make the journey back quite soggy for some of the visitors today.  It seems to have been a fairly quiet week all things STFC, with recent weeks in mind, hopefully this is a positive thing as today will undoubtedly be a test against a decent Coventry outfit.  Its fair to say Coventry have had their fair share of struggles over the last few years and currently find themselves playing their home matches at Northampton Town’s ground, Sixfields. Maybe its just me but I can’t think of Sixfields without thinking of the mad Italian running across the pitch.

Interestingly, Coventry has a large ethnic minority population, making up 33.4% of the population as of the 2011 census.  The ethnic minority population is concentrated in the Foleshill and the St Michael’s areas and Islam is the largest non-Christian religion, but the composition of the ethnic minority population is not typical of the UK with significant numbers of other South Asians.  Coventry is well known for the legendary 11th century exploits of Lady Godiva who, according to legend, rode through the city naked on horseback in protest at high taxes being levied on the city folk by her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia.  According to the legend the residents of the city were commanded to look away as she rode, but one man did not and was allegedly struck blind. He became known as Peeping Tom thus originating a new idiom, or metonym, in English. Leaked documents claiming Sam Cam is planning a similar protest have so far proved to be thankfully unfounded. Coventry has a rich manufacturing history with such motor giants as Peugeot, Jaguar and Triumph although the last Coventry machine tool manufacturer was Matrix Churchill which was forced to close in the wake of the Iraqi Supergun (Project Babylon) scandal. It had been owned by the Saddam Hussein government, via front companies, and closed amidst much controversy and bad feeling. It seems Coventry is fairly popular on an international basis being twinned with no less than 26 other cities.

Where the opposition gather –

http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/40232-Swindon-Pubs-*non-made-up-new-stadium-thread-alert*

One of a few uninteresting threads regarding today’s match. Apparently The Merlin is pricey.

Last 6 – WDLLWD (Currently 11th on 20 points)

They have served us both –  Dave Bamber, Ernie Hunt, Miles Storey, Abdul Said, Trevor Benjamin,  Tim Flowers, Jake Findlay, Frank Peters, Danny Ward, Paul Trollope, Graham Oakey, Arthur Beadsworth, Ady Williams

The Odds -  Swindon 6/4  Draw 9/4  Coventry 9/5  The return of Leon Clarke sees him priced at 11/2 to score the 1st goal, the same as Nicky Ajose and Dany N’Guessan.  My long shot of the day has to be with Coral. Ryan Mason to score 2 or more goals is priced at 14/1. I reckon he is due some goals, why not today?

The Son Says –  The last time we met Coventry at home it was his birthday party at The County Ground and we had a good look behind the scenes, followed by a decent result. 2-0 today I am told.

The Prediction – I sense a big performance today. 3-1 win with a Mason double and 1 from Ajose. Crowd will be 9’487 with 1423 from Coventry.

And Finally –  A minor planet, 3009 Coventry discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1973 is named after the city!

COYR COYR COYR

Doubt they will get in the merlin and isnt bar71 actually in the arkells ?

Can see plenty of goals in this one. Their front 2 cant stop scoring and our defence is ...

1.3 for me unless we take an early lead, also depends if we play an actual striker with Ranger rumoured to be in contention after behaving himself.

Might just creep over the 10000 attendance with 1500 cov fans. Those on the bank look lucky if BBC weather to be believed with rain holding off between 1 and 5

I fear a dicking! Think this might be a goal-fest with us coming out 1 behind.

Done over tonight, 4 on 1. Continuing the theme we'll lose 4-1.

Good stuff...I'm concerned by Arthur Beadsworth, never heard of him.

Thought Charles Coventry might have been worth a mention as the Zimbabwean was joint holder of the highest score in a ODI up until 2010.

Just hope we turn up and play,unlike the second half against Sheff Utd. 2-2 with Ranger scoring a late equaliser

0-3

I thought they sold out there allocation :hmmm: 2.4 with both sides having a man sent off attendance 11023

We'll win 2-1.

4-0 Town.

Sold less than 1000 by wednesday so no not sold out. Some confusion their end whether all ticket or not tho.

Draw


Served us both is missing the great man...

Feeling confident, so 3-1.

Pissing down at the moment. It's supposed to be sunny this pm!

0-1 Clarke

Just got my tickets for this.  Third game for the my boys.  Early Christmas present, Santa, please.

I'm going, think it will be a repeat of orient sadly. 1-3 and Clarke will score

Coventry isn't in Warwickshire. Foleshill Road is incredible for Indian food.

It used to be historically, just like Wolverhampton used to be in Staffordshire.

I hate the way we dick around with counties in this country.  Could you ever imagine the Americans moving Chicago out of Illinois?  No.  Exactly.  It's not right.

Where is it then?

I've never seen us lose a home league game to Coventry, the last time being 53 years ago, and I wasn't there, least don't remember it.  Think that will change today...having seen them on the box a couple of times, we're tailor made for them. Could be by a few too.

I've got a good feeling about this!  2-1 Swindon COYR

Now stop fucking raining!  :badmood: :badmood: :badmood: :badmood: :badmood: :badmood: :badmood:

"Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Historically part of Warwickshire"

Maybe there wont be any walk up cov fans

Coventry City ‏@Coventry_City 1m
Remember, today's match at Swindon is an all ticket fixture, so tickets will not be available to buy on the gate #pusb #skyblues

well not in there end anyway - can see a few pitching up in home areas as quite a few travelling without tickets if my twitter feed is anything to go by

I would have expected that anyway.  In this rain, would you rather watch the game on the Bank getting soaked, or in the dry in a fairly sedate stand like the Arkells?  I know which I would choose.

Well that's Warwickshire then....ok for admin purposes it's called something else.

Was at the uni there in the 80's when it was the lanchester poly didn't finish as saw more gigs than lectures. Remember the Fosehill road run fondly :pint:

If you drive from Kenilworth towards Coventry, you see signs that say "Welcome to Coventry" and vice versa when you drive from Coventry to Kenilworth you see signs that say "Welcome to Warwickshire". That distinction is good enough for me.

But as you live in the past anyway, I'm not surprised by your insistence.

"ceremonial" counties are different to administrative...

Re the rain, any chance of it being off?

id say not. The rain is supposed to push through in a bit.

Thanks batch. Rain had just started in London and saw Sam moose head mentioning the weather was dreadful over there!

Been raining since around 9 mostly heavy too
BBC gives it as stopping between 12 and 1 till 5 when starts again
Mrs just informed me no rain in brissle so drier weather IS on the way

marcus cassidy ‏@CassidyMarcus 34s
The rain has finally stopped,a drying wind so game on!!!

This is what is wrong with this country.

1 away from 10k sonic. Make it epic!

Just seen Lee Power at the CG, so he's still in town.

If Ranger plays we will win this game - indications from Cooper would suggest he is going to be - good news - 2-1 possibly 3-2 - I am rarely wrong.....see you there :pint:

You're easily pleased then, by the efforts of penpushers and bureaucrats...these are the same people that tried to convince us that Swindon was in fact Thamesdown, sometimes the will of the people will prevail.

If you're in the Drs drop me a text, be good to sat hello.

Ranger starts. Massive gamble that stinks of desperation.

Blimey, we've had a shot at goal  :eek:

Fairly even. Bit shot shy even when we have had opportunity. Wish we'd get the ball in quicker sometimes.

Fuck me it's dead on here.
Reckon dossy's sex life is more lively

Main and jmac off. Barthram and kasim on

Strange decision

Just goading some of those Slops:

http://blueandamber.proboards.com/thread/86027/team-today-why

If you think it's quiet on here, nobody on there site has posted in the first 45 mins of their game.

I spoke too soon (someone has just posted).

My neighbour sent me a Chrimbo card and she put a kiss on it. If anything says smash my backdoors in I'm gagging for it, it's that!

Off to watch Sky Soccer Saturday and get trolleyed in Calne town centre with my JSA  :pint: :pint: :pint:

almost inevitable

Hmmm!

If points were awarded for dicking about in front of goal with no end product we'd have this wrapped up by now.

Are we dicking around or fannying around?

Either way, we ain't sounding like scoring!

Fodderingham tips onto post and rebound goes into his hands!

Told you we'd score!

Kasim!

get in there!!!!!

Sagt mir wo die blumen sindt!

Hello Flower! Just to let you know you are not alone.

Come on Town!

Clarke nearly scored again!

Saved from Storey!

Lots of goalmouth action now.

Seems that Coventry are hanging on and hoping to counter.....Having said that. Fleck hits bar from 35 yards!

Storey !!! 2-1

Get in.

YYYYYYESSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kinell!!!!

Kasim shot deflected off post for corner!

Massive credit to Cooper-great subs!

Get in!

'Leon, what's the score?'

'Cry in a minute, you're gonna cry in a minute!'

Guess he shouldn't have baited the crowd when he scored!

Sounded very cool from Storey. Coming of age?

Brilliant

4 mins to go...crowd gone quiet!

Nice turnaround. Hold on town!

Crawley winning at Orient.If that shower can beat them then so can we, just play our natural attacking game.

FT 2-1 ! Phew!

Good result, well done lads!

Never in doubt

Official attendance?

9,291 (1,219 Coventry fans)

Thx. Shame this was just before Christmas. Slightly disappointing turnout from both sides.

Well, that result surprised me.

Honestly thought we were about to hit a run of shit results.

Mind you, still can't see us getting much from Brentford or Bradford.

BTW, was it Agent Flint, yet again, who gave away the last minute penalty.

 :whogives:

Cooper gives players Xmas day off - Joked that Ranger was staying at his house, the wife wasn't happy, but they would pass his dinner under the door. That way Cooper can make sure that he says out of trouble, because anything could happen! (Guffaws in the background)

Massive win, unfortunately, when your away form is dodgy it puts pressure on the home games, a loss today could have been serious.  Think it helped that Wilson was missing as he's the sort of pacy direct forward, who'd have caused us a few problems.

That was fun.  Brilliant game.  Thought it was going to be one of those days right from the off...cricket club off limits due to rain, so had to trek to the ground from Gorse Hill with two little ones in tow.  Soaking wet and not in the best of spirits.

But then a great team performance.  Clarke's goal never really looked like deciding it.  And Yaser's...what can you say?  He might as well have fired it from a Kalashnikov.

Two tired and happy little lads in the back of the car, both wanting to come back soon.  Happy days.  And Happy Christmas everyone.

I enjoyed that! That second half was 2 teams looking to win the game and thankfully it was us that did!

Nile ranger has such a brilliant touch (for a big man!)

Fair play to cooper for bringing the Iraqi Pele on, he was superb!

Great to see Coops proving the doubters wrong. Some inspired substitutions there, sir!

I thought Coventry were pretty poor, if we didn't fuck about with it so much in the final 3rd we could have had at least 5,  I thought that cunt Clarke should have been booked for inciting the crowd, anyway superb result and a very entertaining 2nd half, roll on boxing day

I'm not going to lie, Coventry will feel unlucky not have at least a point.

But that's all the credit they get. Because we took the points and that's what counts.

Personally I thought it took their goal and Miles Storey to liven us up. From then on in we were much much better. Credit to Cooper for going for it with 2 up top when we needed to. Exactly what we should have done last week.

First half was very frustrating, getting into position to have a shot but electing not to do so. Especially on a skiddy wet pitch.

Kasim's goal - keeper didn't even move. Storey's I thought he was going to take it wide but it was a cool finish and good strength and pace to get into the shooting position.

edit: How sweet was that after Clarke thought he'd remind the Arkells of his name. Came in handy later on :)

marvellous. Happy Christmas indeed.

Really? I thought they were very dangerous, they hit the post and bar and looked threatening every time they went forward to me!

Very happy with a hard fought 3 points!

Obviously watching a different game to the rest of us, you will be pretty sick if you are a Cov. supporter tonight!!  We were second to nearly everything first half, they could have been 2 or three up at half-time, inevitable they were going to score, but second-half subs made a big difference.  After they scored we had a very good 15 mins but seemed to drift back into bad ways again until that magnificent volley from Kasim.  Even after that they hit the bar but Storey won it with a real striker's goal - although could have scored with an almost identical effort just before.  His pace did for them, just what we needed.  Ranger mom for me, got through an awful lot of work with no rewards.

I had totally forgotten we even had Storey so all in all a good result.

Well we probably didn't deserve to win that but fuck it we're due one of them. I think Leon Clarke only celebrated in front of our fans in case we'd forgotten what a cunt he is! On the plus side, their gaffer will be impressed that he managed to run half the length of the pitch without stopping.

Anyone who got incited by what he did needs to have a serious word with themselves

They looked dangerous on the break but to be fair most of their shots were from distance.I watched them v Bradford and they looked a lot better than they did today.
First half belonged to Cov though - we were 2nd best to every ball esp in midfield and they seemed to be able to get to the byline with ease.
Maybe that was the reason for Jmac going off - whatever the reason the subs made a difference
Just knew Clarke would score and yes running down the length of the arkells pointing to your name was worthy of a yellow ( taunting/incitement ) still it came back to haunt the fucker.
Thought we looked decent in attack ( Ranger makes a hell of a difference ) but we get in the box and then dick about - shoot ffs.
Kasims goal was unstoppable - boom - keeper never moved.
Thought from then on we stepped up a gear and chased/harried them all over the pitch.
Storeys goal took an age to cross the line, I thought he had fucked the chance but superb chip over the advancing keeper.

Nice to start the festive season with 3 points - cant see either Brentford or Bradford being so hospitable.
Roll on boxing day.

Didn't say it bothered me, but if you run half the length of the pitch and do what he did then that is inciting the crowd, sorry if I have an opinion

Nowt wrong with having an opinion

I thought the best team lost. Cov opened us up a number of times with Clarke missing a couple. How did he miss that header? Their passing was pretty crisp and they had good delivery, which we did not.
For the first 75, I thought we were pretty crap. A lot of players off their game and we were second to everything. The midfield was absolute bollox and the defence not much better. Byrne and J Mac were both shite. Ranger was left on his own with fuck all support.
Then they hit the post, the ball comes back into Fods arms and the rest is history. The last 15 minutes were superb. Two quality goals. Kasims was like an exocet and Storey's shows that his work down the gym is worthwhile as he looks a unit now.
Two other really positives from the day. The ref was superb - best down here this season. Then fair play to Coventry who at least played like men. None of the fucking around that Orient and Brentford give you. When they got fouled, they got back up.
I would have given Ranger MOM. The ball stuck to him like superglue.
Now the negatives. We still want to walk the ball in the fucking net. Our decision making in the box is shite - take a bow Mr Pritchard. also, our dead ball delivery is also shite - take another bow Mr Pritchard. To be honest, His workrate was good but he was shite today, as was Ajose.
 
 

Got to go out......mrs flash moaning....post later...moaning fucker....

Got to agree with you about pritchard's delivery Chalkies, it's generally shocking.

Happy days.

Victory and 40 quid winnings for 1st goalscorer.

Beer time

Yep, dish it out got to be able to take it imo

Cov opened us up a number of times with Clarke missing a couple. How did he miss that header?

Cos he's shit ?

Pritchard's joint second for assists in the division and has scored some excellent free-kicks.

Shortest Match day thread ever. Either everyone went to the game or did some shopping?

Match day thread length is often inversely proportional to how well we played...and even the size of the crowd, which was OK as well.

For what it's worth, I thought Clarke just about crossed the line with his goal celebration as well.  Funny thing was he directed his performance at the Arkells Stand, which was full of kids and pensioners (and me).  Maybe he should have tried his luck with the Town End (who, incidentally, seemed to be in fine voice throughout today from where we were sitting).

Really enjoyed that second half. Coventry didn't sit on their lead, which helped is a lot. Both sides attacking and looking dangerous going forward, and generally very enjoyable. Probably wouldn't be saying the same had we lost, but fuck it. Storey took his goal well.

Good luck tryin to analyse the positions second half. At one point hall kept on overlapping bartram, Byrne was playing centre back and ajose ended the game at right back. All very odd, but I guess it worked.

Storey looked a man and not a boy today. I think you may be right. Oh and Kasim was back to his player of the year best. We played well, but with a frustrating end product, Cov also played some lovely stuff.


Finally, did you know that in the last three meetings there have been six different managers.

As another said "If you can't take it, don't dish it out"

Well I thought it was an excellent game with both teams trying to play football.
Very even and end to end.
Predicted on radio this Morning 2-1 but would have settled with a draw.

Took both of my lads today by train and a great day out.
Fair play to the Cov fans on train going and coming back, decent.

Ranger MOM for me. At home we play better when he plays. Great touches today.
As for Story's goal a class finish ......... Get in !!!!

Post match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrE41EbY9HY

Not recorded by me

And Storeys "dink" over the keeper for the 2nd town goal

(http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab225/mark_woolhouse/miles_zps352e15a2.jpg)

I like coopers parka.

Pretty much spot on!

Not quite the impact of the famous Green coat

(cue abuse)

Oh, so you cheered him then?

Is that the only alternative reaction then?

No, did you want more?

No I can survive without them

Forgot to say I thought hall did well today too

Did enjoy the baiting of Clarke after we scored, pay back for his over exuberance!!

Clarke got everything he deserved. Gave it the big un ( and I didn't have a problem with it ) and looked an even bigger twat when we won - which he shouldn't have a problem with. Look forward to the game up there.

Fuck me we won! Was it a good game?

I know that we 8 pages in but we missed the type of player that ranger is. I am pissed hut wd changed fromlast eek.

Really??

I was working, so third option there.

Sounds like a good win against opposition we should perhaps not have beaten. Can't argue with that. Good to see the Iraqi Pirlo and Fairy Storey in amongst the goals, is that Miles' first game since coming back from loan? Who'd he come on for?

Coventry reminded me a lot of us. Pretty decent on the ball but when it came to finishing they were dreadful. Knew Clarke would score, and oddly enough his celebration stepped everyone up a gear and we did what we needed to kill them off.

As good as Coventry were, they shit themselves as soon as we upped the pace and ran at them and we could have notched a couple more in the end as we completely rattled them. Kasim was mostly brilliant when he came on and Ranger proved, again, how vital he is to us.

Id probably feel a little hard done by if I was a Coventry fan... but Ive lost count of how many times we've been on top then lost out because of poor finishing and shite defending, so fuck em.

Great to see Miles back on form too. They couldnt cope with him, still has the pace but he's definitely been doing some bench presses.

Just seen the goals, shocking defending by the Coventry centre back for the winner, Storey muscled him off really easily.

Great win yesterday, Leon's celebration backfire spectacularly and Never ending Storey looked sharp when he came on  :beers:

Been saying for a while that Storey is quality,against Villa he was outstanding and i remember him being brilliant at Tranmere till he got injured.
Needs a long run of games now with his body getting used to the rigours of pro footy.
A good win and if i am honest a suprising one for me after last weeks horror show.

Storey almost scored his Villa flick with his first touch as well.

Seen the stats we had 49% possession and 9 shots on target they had 7 shots on target so Cov fans are talking bollocks that they should of buried us,draw would been about right.

We rode our luck those 7 shots could easily have been 17, lost count how many times Wes was scrambling across his area to his left hand post in the first half, relieved to see them inches wide!!

Nah they were comfortably wide, Wes loves a dive.

I thought Storey looked a lot bigger yesterday.
Definitely been hitting the gym!

So maybe that's credit to Storey then, rather than bad defending.

Great goal I thought.

Are there any clips on the interweb ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mfmt9

Most enjoyable afternoon in the end....Coventry came to play and to win - I was pleased to see Ranger was playing from the start. We need him in the side if we are to stand any chance of the paly offs - he was man of the match by a country mile and should have been given the award although if it was a large bottle of champers maybe not...he gives this side balance and his control yesterday was class. Coventry will be wondering how they didn`t win the game especially given Jay Mac`s performance - thankfully he went off - Byrne is no defender either. So relieved  that Clarke`s goal didn`t prove to be the winner.....that would have spoilt Christmas for me...so glad we let him know what a c..t he was when Storey scored.

Nice to see the crowd really get behind the team when we equalised - I reckon they stepped it up from then - Cooper doing ok so lets give him the support....

Happy bloody Christmas.... :pint:

Cheers

Elvis is quite complimentary about Swindon here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjge1RdR2Y

Really enjoyed yesterday, thought we played some excellent stuff in the 2nd half and was pleased to get a win in just before Xmas! As someone has said, nice of Leon Clarke trying to bait the pensioners/kids in the Arkells...he didn't fancy his luck trying to bait the Town End...probably shit himself he'd get punched or he couldn't run that far! Fair play to Coops for making the changes when he did, all worked out well. Ranger was my MoM...I wish that bloke would keep out of trouble as there is so much potential! Miles, welcome back...he's had a few gym sessions hasn't he?! Yasir's goal - unstoppable! Merry Xmas to everyone, looking forward to Brentford on boxing day now! C.O.Y.R!

Watched the goals. Originally I thought ranger had fucked up his header for Kasim's goal but it looks like he laid his header off wonderfully for the Iraqi. The second was a great flick on from him as well. Shows we can score from keeper kick outs and flick ons when required!

Enjoyed yesterday, very good game. Still yet to see us lose this season, 5 wins and 2 draws.

Never in a month of Sundays was that an intended layoff :)

COURSE IT WAS! NAYSAYER!

Of course. Sorry. The fact he didn't eve know where Kassim was made it even better.A sixth sense.

Prove it!

--
|g                                                         Pirlo (Iraq edition)
|o          x(ball)                                          0
|a                                                          \O/
|l           ^ (50p head)                                    /\
|          / |\  (chips on shoulder)      
--           |
            /\
           Ranger            

<---------------Intended direction of ball
---------------> Actual direction of ball                               

haha! Genius Batch!

Move over Gary Neville
 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Post of the year right here.

Storey was superb at Stevenage away, just before the Villa match

I want to see break downs like that on the tv, not wanky disappearing lines from now on. Batch 1 Technology 0

I started drawing a 3D view and got bored.

You've even managed to show Ranger's shorts-pulled-down-his-arse stylee. Well done.

Doesn't really work

Now on sky...

Nowt new other than other Coventry misses...seems our deflected shot against the post never made it.

Do you any of you sit in the DRS and were you wearing the black bah humbug santa hat?

I sit in the DRS but wasn't wearing said hat.

There are some truly special people that sit at the top of that stand!

I sit near the back and there are 2 blokes in front of me that have spent the entire season shaking their heads and even chanting "boring boring Swindon"!! Humbug didn't even come back out for the 2nd half yesterday.

I'm right at the back, but wasn't there yesterday

I think there are people like that all over.

Near me we have some of my friends who try to wind up a guy three row in front over Pritchard. Not sure why they do it, but he does bite.

Then we have 'The Coach', a weary old guy in  flat cap and so called because he can see everything we do that is wrong, and usually offers advice/insightful opinion such as 'nooooo'.

We also have 'overly fair man', the one that points out that while you are baying for their centre forward to be sent off it was in fact a foul on him first. Annoying.

I myself have turned into give an opinion on everything man. I can't shut up while watching. Maybe I'll be the next Coach in a few years.

Ha ha Batch, I had to move my seat a few seasons ago because the guy sat next to me was the most miserable bastard in the world - mind you he did come from Highworth! - and everybody was lazy, nobody was fit, nobody tries and "this is the worst Swindon side I've seen in 40 years" was regularly trotted out.  He hated Painter with a venom and for a 65 years old bloke to boo at the sound of his name was a bit ridiculous I thought.  Luckily the people sat around me are much fairer, although one could easily join the Arkells "get it forward" brigade!

Sam in his match report today suggests Ranger cushioned his header for Kasim, so not just me! :)

He bloody didn't! He didn't even look at Kassim :)

Moorshead mustn't have seen the definitive evidence you produced yesterday................or he ignored it. Either way, not much of a journo to not have investigated his primary source.

So you're saying he picked him out without even looking at him!? You can't teach that level of talent. Makes the assist even more remarkable!

Hadn't seen this posted, so here's the highlights (from Coventry's YouTube channel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrHNkMHnjOk

Miles looked brilliant for his goal, and I was a little surprised Kasim's volley went in in all honesty, didn't look like it had the power to slip past the goalie, but then again he has got pistons for legs, so it proably was...

I was in the Town End and couldn't even see Kasim through the crowd of players - guessing it was the same for the keeper.

I know the keeper was a lil unsighted but he didnt even move, I was side on to that volley and looked a lot harder than from that camera position.
Meh either way was a great equaliser

I know. Some say that he has such a sixth sense that he even sees dead people, all the time.

Joe Murphy is a prick (based on his winding up of the crowd at Scunthorpe a few years ago). I enjoyed that equalizer immensely.

Maybe they will take note of the rather 'route one' method of Storey's goal and get away from the constant fannying around at the back when Wes has the ball.

There's something almost pure when a punt from the goalkeeper is flicked on by the big CF to his sidekick and he slots it away.

His hissy fit when Storey scored was even better.

On a side note, there was a few Cov fans behind us in the town end. One of them got really shitty with us for celebrating Storeys goal. They werent shy either, celebrated Clarke's goal and also were vocal in their defence of him when he got shit from the whole ground.

What do you mean, 'rather' route one. That was precisely route one.

Reminds me of an old Amiga game where you had to choose the tactic from each goal kick, route one being the preferred choice and nearly always came off with the big man/little man combo. Can't for the life of me remember the game though.

Route one, came about from the old TV show Quizball....the clip at the start of this is classic...I wouldn't recommend the Emlyn Hughes bit at the end...I know it's wrong to speak ill of the dead, but Molineux 1980 has taken a bit of getting over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkYidVVOHos

Surprised they didn't get lumped.

Not that I agree with it.

This.
Shame I was in the Arkells. You dont have to lump them tho just make it so uncomfortable they fuck off.
Surprised the stewards didnt throw them out esp in light of the heightened police presence and non threat of trouble.

Hang on a minute.  He buys a ticket in the home end, the most vocal part of the ground...and then gets chopsy when the home fans celebrate a late winner?!  That's all a bit odd.

I thought the Town End were in good voice on Saturday, but it's clearly not the place it was once.  That Coventry fella would have been taken apart back in the day.

They were to the left of the exit (looking out from the stand) and it was a bit quieter that side but I was equally as surprised that no one seemed bothered by them. They weren't bad guys at all, and one of them had a kid with him.

They left not long after Storey scored as people really cottoned on that they were Coventry fans and they started getting arsey. Don't understand why you'd get annoyed at other fans celebrating a goal.

I thought the atmosphere was good after we equalised but before then I thought it was standard Swindon fare and up in the DRS all I could hear was people bickering and shouting nonsensical things. One guy kept having a go at Ranger for 'not doing him'. I can only assume he wanted Ranger to hit Leon Clarke or something.

If I remember rightly, there was a head coach at the F.A. called Charles Hughes who always maintained this was the most obvious and best way to score goals. Forget about passing the ball around, just get it forward to the "POMO" as it was called (Position Of Maximum Opportunity). Think the old Wimbledon side used it to great effectiveness!

Hughes was very influential.  Held English football back for years.  Even today, at least some of the blame for the technical inferiority of English players (vs Dutch, German etc.) can be laid at his door.  A massive wrong turn.

Howard Wilkinson signed up to this philisophy which included an optimum number of passes prior to shooting, so the idea was that this was achieved through getting the ball forward quickly as it turned out to be around 5 passes.

You'd have though that Barcleona and Spain would have done enough in recent years to show this philisophy as being utterly stupid, not least because it pays disregard for the ebb and flow of a game.  So while a goal may come from a brief move, the 65% of possession retained maye well have pulled the defensive system apart and worn down the opposition.  That as well as our abject failure on a world scale.

Kick Off?

Sensible Soccer ?

Greatest game of all time!

I loved Kick Off and Player manager...brilliant games.

I had a game based on the Kick Off engine called player manager which I used to enjoy.

Basically you got to control one player who was miles better than anyone else so I used to just run about the pitch trying to get the ball off my team mates as quick as possible and try and do it all on my own!

Bet it was shit!

It was this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Manager

Dino Dini!

Kick Off returned in the form of "Goal!" which I just loved. Looked shit but immense playability

Beat you ;) Player Manager was my all time fave footy game ever.

Taking a goal kick with the wind behind you, adding swerve and scoring a goal...or taking a goal kick and the wind taking it back over your own keepers head....a bit like Digby against Stevenage back under Muckmoan.

Which was exactly what happened in the Intel when we played Millwall in the League Cup Quarter Final  way back.

Now, that was a tasty atmosphere!

No, me too. He might not have looked at him but he was certainly aware of where he was.

There is no way on this planet that Ranger meant to lay the ball off to Kasim!

At last, a voice of reason.

I thought he tried to head it back into the six yard box.

Erm, probably should have read the posts properly before commenting. I thought you were talking about the lay on to Storey for the second.

Just you then BO. As you were.  :D

Kick off!  yep...  Better than Sensible soccer, there I said it..

It was all about UEFA Striker on Playstation.

International superstar soccer deluxe...on snes..excellent...

Kick Off 2 multi player was simplistic looking, limited in options and lacking in depth. But it was the greatest 2 player game ever produced, because despite all its limitations there was no better feeling than curling a last second winning  aftertouch goal around the opposition keeper. The amount of "first to 30 wins" games we played over the years is testament to that.

The fact that this exists in 2013 says it all
 
       http://www.ko-gathering.com/

Sensi may have been better in 1 player mode though.

I used to play a game I cannot remember the name of on PC (you could make our own teams, change shirt colours etc, which was well advanced for the time.), but it was properly broken as all you had to do was dribble to the edge of the pitch roughly near your opponent's corner flag and shoot, and the ball would magically follow the line as if on rails and slip under the keeper.

Pretty sure it was by EA, but it definitely wasn't Sensible Soccer...  :hmmm:

True enough, but the penalty taking was better on the original.

Looks like I started a bit of a debate.

I think it might have been Kick Off, but really can't be sure.

Pah, computer soccer games aren't a patch on this:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ8QoUjnUTiM6ILQYlH4eKex-9ej-65TqsQeAaZY7pQ2vjG3I7Y

Pretty sure it wasn't KO2

Any way I can play Kick off 2 or Player Manager on an emulator for an Apple?

It kicked off in all the stands that day. Pockets of fighting throughout the match

Dont know about Apple but I have the roms on PC with an emulator, message me if you want a copy of the rom, they work on all emulators as long as you have a kick start rom too...which I can also let you know if you get an Apple one mate.

Kick Off had the best ever sounds for when the ball hit the crossbar or post. Fact.

Sensi World of Soccer was an immense time eater.

As was Cannon Fodder.

Taking the ball to the by-line and shooting with the outside of the boot. Ball would always, ALWAYS curve into the far corner.

As for my contribution to the old football games turn this thread has taken - Adidas Power Soccer on the PS1.