Down the Sky Blue decades - the 1940s
BACK in the 1940s football was a far cry from the modern game, both on and off the pitch.
Coventry City centre-forward Jack Evans and his contemporaries - the likes of Ted Roberts, Stan Smith, Trevor Lewis, Ken Jones and Charlie Timmins - enjoyed a decent living and way of life while it lasted.
But as the now 82-year-old revealed: "When I left Coventry in 1952 I signed for Nuneaton Borough and started work at the Daimler as an engineer and doubled my wages overnight.
"I used to get ã10 a week in the second team which was not a bad wage in those days compared to other jobs, but it dropped significantly during the close season which used to be three months.
"So, during the summer a lot of us used to get part time jobs to keep us going and I worked in the offices at Highfield Road and me and Ted Roberts used to make and pack butter locally as well."
Roberts was the club's first choice centre-forward and limited Evans to eight first team games during his six years, although he was a prolific goal scorer in the reserves, regularly notching between 15-18 a season.
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