Coventry City 1988 89 Season Review

Coventry City Season Review from 1988-89. 7th 1st Division. Primary 1st XI: Ogrizovic, Borrows, Downs, Peake, Kilcline, Sedgley, Phillips, Smith, Speedie, Bannister, Regis. Av Att: 16,040. Manager: John Sillett

[@Scott1433]

Blimey, David Speedie was class

[@anthonydiggle2926]

Agreed. Astonishing to believe he only had 10 Scotland caps.

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

Good season this for CCFC. Went my first ever Cov v Liverpool game too. Memories.

[@rosemaryfarell5264]

Speedie scored CHIP & LOB of the Season ffs. Great lil player.

[@themanfromvolantis]

No disrespect to the uploader intended here. I am grateful that you uploaded it. Whoever compiled and edited the original video though has dropped a bollock.... 40 mins 30 seconds in. That ISN'T Highfield Road. It suggests it's Arsenal's travelling fans. It might be Arsenal's travelling fans but not on the night in question and not at Highfield Road. What a bizarre editing decision. How do I know its not Highfield Road? 1 Yellow Crush Barriers 2 Arsenal filled their part of the spion kop end that night. 3 There appears to be a post there. As in a post which supports a roof on a stand. 4 The lighting is different Odd.

[@therealstatdad]

Wow. Never noticed that before. Yeah def not highfield road that shot. Odd indeed.... odd

[@themanfromvolantis]

@@therealstatdad Isn't it. At some point during the edit, somebody has gone "Hmmm. Not bad but I think this clip NEEDS a shot of the Arsenal fans" Then at some point somebody has thought "Oh no. The camera man didn't pan to the right enough, so there is no clip of the peeved Arsenal fans" THEN somebody has gone to the trouble of including a shot of some fans, somewhere, not celebrating. And they got away with it.... for 31 years. I musta watched that video 20 times till I lent it to (strangely) an Albion fan and never rumbled it. I'm going to find out the person responsible and ask them "why oh why oh WHY did you do that". I'm not a professional video editor but surely it would've been easier to remove the audio of the bloke mentioning the Arsenal fans, than it was to include a random clip. I'm not really going to find out who did it but it is going to bug me. I have OCD about stuff like this. Not because it isn't right. I can live with things not being right. Anyone can make mistakes. Just that in this case somebody has made an effort to make it not right. I have autism BTW. I know this wouldn't trouble me if I was normal lol

[@therealstatdad]

@@themanfromvolantis no worries. This has made me question EVERYTHING! What is real now?!

[@themanfromvolantis]

@@therealstatdad It's a bit like when I was first told that C3PO had 1 silver lower leg. I was like "nope". "nope", "nope". Warched A New Hope for the 400th time.... "They must've changed it. I bet its gold on VHS copies" I have yet to check the VHS version just in case his one lower leg is silver. If It is, then my (reasonably happy) childhood may not have really happened. The toys were all gold.

[@richardbaker3000]

It's Plough Lane the week afterwards.

[@YJB8CCFC]

David Speedie had that spat with Sunderland’s Gary Bennett. Is the David Bennett’s brother? Wonder how the spat would’ve impacted on their relationship in the dressing room?

[@therealstatdad]

Just checked and yeah he was Daves brother. Spicy!

[@mikipope5140]

Why get rid of Bennett and Houchen at that point?